Tokens API v1 - POST token lookup

We have a new version of this API—API authentication tokens API. Check it out!

Lists metadata of a Dynatrace API authentication token by the token itself.

Alternatively, you can retrieve metadata by submitting the ID of the token with the GET token metadata call.

The request consumes and produces an application/json payload.

POST	Managed https://{your-domain}/e/{your-environment-id}/api/v1/tokens/lookup SaaS https://{your-environment-id}.live.dynatrace.com/api/v1/tokens/lookup Environment ActiveGate https://{your-activegate-domain}/e/{your-environment-id}/api/v1/tokens/lookup

Authentication

To execute this request, you need any permission assigned to your API token. To learn how to obtain and use it, see Tokens and authentication.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	In	Required
body	Token	The JSON body of the request. Contains the required token.	body	optional

Body format

Request parametersJSON model

The Token object

Element	Type	Description	Required
token	string	Dynatrace API authentication token.	required

No model example.

Response

Response codes

Code	Description
200	Success

Response body

Response parametersJSON model

The TokenMetadata object

Metadata of a token.

Element	Type	Description
id	string	The ID of the token.
name	string	The name of the token.
userId	string	The owner of the token.
revoked	boolean	Revocation status of the token. Revoked tokens are disabled.
created	integer	The creation time as a unix timestamp in milliseconds.
expires	integer	The expiration time as a unix timestamp in milliseconds.
lastUse	integer	The unix timestamp in milliseconds when the token was last used.
scopes	string[]	A list of scopes assigned to the token.
personalAccessToken	boolean	The token is a personal access token (`true`) or an API token (`false`).

No example model.

Example

In this example, the request queries the metadata of the abcdefjhij1234567890 token.

The API token is passed in the Authorization header.

The token, as displayed in the Dynatrace interface, has the following settings:

Dynatrace API authentication token

Curl

curl -X POST \
  https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v1/tokens/lookup \
  -H 'Authorization: Api-Token abcdefjhij1234567890' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \  
  -d '{
  "token": "abcdefjhij1234567890"
}'

Request URL

https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v1/tokens/lookup

Response body

{
  "id": "d5836312-5790-4e80-afcf-09971954c3ea",
  "name": "admin",
  "userId": "admin@mysampleenv.com",
  "created": "2019-03-13T09:45:40Z",
  "lastUse": "2019-04-04T09:13:23Z",
  "scopes": [
    "ExternalSyntheticIntegration",
    "DataPrivacy",
    "WriteConfig",
    "DssFileManagement",
    "LogExport",
    "DTAQLAccess",
    "ReadConfig",
    "CaptureRequestData",
    "ReadSyntheticData",
    "DataExport",
    "UserSessionAnonymization",
    "MaintenanceWindows",
    "LogImport",
    "TenantTokenManagement"
  ]
}

Response code

200