Personal access token
Normally, access tokens require admin rights to generate. With personal access tokens, however, you can generate a token for API usage without admin rights. Available scopes are bound to your permissions, meaning that you can only use the API counterparts of features you're already authorized to use. You're also limited to the data from management zones you have access to.
A personal access token is bound to you. You can't generate a personal access token for another user.
Enable personal access tokens
Admin rights are required to enable this feature. After it's enabled, any user can generate a personal access token.
To enable personal access tokens
- In the Dynatrace menu, go to Settings and select Integration > Token settings.
- Turn on Enable personal access tokens.
Generate personal access tokens
To generate a personal access token
- Open the user menu
in the upper-right corner of the Dynatrace web UI and select Personal access tokens.
- Select Generate new token.
- Enter a name for your token.
Dynatrace doesn't enforce unique token names. You can create multiple tokens with the same name. Be sure to provide a meaningful name for each token you generate. Proper naming helps you to efficiently manage your tokens and perhaps delete them when they're no longer needed. - Select the required scopes for the token.
- Select Generate token.
- Copy the generated token to the clipboard. Store the token in a password manager for future use.
You can only access your token once upon creation. You can't reveal it afterward.
Available scopes
Dynatrace provides the following permissions for personal access tokens. You can set them in the web UI as described above or via the Access tokens API.
Name | API value | Description |
---|---|---|
Read API tokens |
| Grants access to GET requests of the Access tokens API. |
Write API tokens |
| Grants access to POST, PUT, and DELETE requests of the Access tokens API. |
Read entities |
| Grants access to GET requests of the Monitored entities and Custom tags APIs. |
Write entities |
| Grants access to POST, PUT, and DELETE requests of the Monitored entities and Custom tags APIs. |
Read metrics |
| Grants access to GET requests of the Metrics API v2. |
Write metrics |
| Grants access to the DELETE a custom metric request of the Metrics API v2. |
Read network zones |
| Grants access to GET requests of the Network zones API. |
Write network zones |
| Grants access to POST, PUT, and DELETE requests of the Network zones API. |
Read problems |
| Grants access to GET requests of the Problems API v2. |
Write problems |
| Grants access to POST, PUT, and DELETE requests of the Problems API v2. |
Read releases |
| Grants access to the Releases API. |
Read security problems |
| Grants access to GET requests of the Security problems API. |
Write security problems |
| Grants access to POST requests of the Security problems API. |
Read settings |
| Grants access to GET requests of the Settings API. |
Write settings |
| Grants access to POST and DELETE requests of the Settings API. |
Read SLO |
| Grants access to GET requests of the Service-level objectives API. |
Write SLO |
| Grants access to POST, PUT, and DELETE requests of the Service-level objectives API. |