Assign ownership teams to Smartscape nodes

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• Published Apr 08, 2026

Ownership assignment is based on tags. Tags are key-value pairs stored in Smartscape nodes.

Depending on your setup, there are several ways to apply those tags to your entities.

By default, Dynatrace provides two keys: owner and dt.owner. Additionally, you can define up to three custom keys.

Assign ownership to your teams

To access and modify the keys, go to Settings > Environment segmentation > Ownership > Configure. Optionally, add keys as Configuration for Ownership.

Ownership keys are matched as a prefix, not as an exact key. Dynatrace assigns ownership from every tag or property whose key starts with one you defined, so a single prefix can bring in several owners at once. Define the prefix team., tag an entity with team.frontend, team.backend, and team.support, and Dynatrace assigns all three teams as owners.

Because matching is by prefix, keep your prefixes distinct from unrelated tag keys. Otherwise, a prefix like my.team also matches my.team.2.

As a value, use the identifier optionally followed by a supplementary identifier to associate the entity with the team you want.

To add or edit a supplementary identifier:

Example command for associating an entity with a team

Here is an example command for using the team identifier to associate the entity with the team you want.

./oneagentctl --set-host-property owner-1=team-automation

For more information about oneagentctl and how to apply tags to individual entities such as hosts, see Custom host tags.

Next steps

Once you have added your teams, specified the desired key-value pairs, and added the tags to the Smartscape nodes, you can retrieve the ownership team information.