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List effective settings values

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  • Published Oct 13, 2026

List effective settings values in Dynatrace with the App Settings API, including schema defaults when no object is persisted for a non-multiObject schema.

GETSaaShttps://{your-environment-id}.apps.dynatrace.com/v2/effective-values

Overview

Lists effective settings values for selected schemas. If no object is persisted for a schema with "multiObject": false, the default value as defined in the schema will be returned.

Properties of type secret will be included in plain text if the call originates from a serverless function of your app; they will have irreversibly masked values otherwise. This protects these secrets from leaking to users of your app or other third parties.

Authentication

To execute this request, you need a platform token or OAuth access token with app-settings:objects:read scope. To learn how to obtain and use it, see Tokens and authentication.

Parameters

ParameterTypeDescriptionInRequired
schema-idstring

Schema ID to which the requested objects belong.

Only considered on load of the first page, when the nextPageKey is not set.

queryOptional
add-fieldsstring

A list of fields to be included in the response. The provided set of fields extends the default set.

Specify the required top-level fields, separated by commas (for example, summary,schemaId).

Supported fields: summary, searchSummary, schemaId, schemaVersion, modificationInfo, value.

Default fields: value.

queryOptional
page-keystring

The cursor for the next page of results. You can find it in the nextPageKey field of the previous response.

The first page is always returned if you don't specify the page-key query parameter.

When the page-key is set to obtain subsequent pages, you must omit all other query parameters.

queryOptional
page-sizeinteger

The amount of settings objects in a single response payload.

If set to 0, all available settings objects will be included in the response.

The maximal allowed page size is 500.

If not set, 100 is used.

queryOptional
admin-accessboolean

If set to true and user has app-settings:objects:admin permission, the endpoint will act as if the user is the owner of all objects

queryOptional

Response

Response codes

CodeTypeDescription
200EffectiveAppSettingsValuesList

Success. Uses chunked encoding.

Even if a response returns a successful response code it is possible that the result is incomplete due to an internal error.

In this case an 'error' property with information about the problem is added. The caller may decide to work with the incomplete result or do a retry of the operation.

400ErrorResponse

Failed. The input is invalid.

404ErrorResponse

Failed. The specified schema is not found.

429--
503--
4XX--
5XX--

Response body objects

The EffectiveAppSettingsValuesList object

A list of effective settings values.

ElementTypeDescription
totalCountinteger

The total number of entries in the result.

pageSizeinteger

The number of entries per page.

nextPageKeystring

The cursor for the next page of results. Has the value of null on the last page.

Use it in the nextPageKey query parameter to obtain subsequent pages of the result.

itemsEffectiveAppSettingsValue[]

A list of effective settings values.

errorErrorIncomplete

Error object for an incomplete response

The EffectiveAppSettingsValue object

An effective settings value.

ElementTypeDescription
summarystring

A short summary of settings. This can contain Markdown and will be escaped accordingly.

searchSummarystring

A searchable summary string of the setting value. Plain text without Markdown.

schemaIdstring

The schema on which the object is based.

schemaVersionstring

The version of the schema on which the object is based.

valueAppSettingsValueRaw

The value of the setting.

It defines the actual values of settings' parameters.

The actual content depends on the object's schema.

modificationInfoModificationInfo

Modification information about the setting.

The AppSettingsValueRaw object

The value of the setting.

It defines the actual values of settings' parameters.

The actual content depends on the object's schema.

The ModificationInfo object

Modification information about the setting.

ElementTypeDescription
createdBystring

The unique identifier of the user who created the setting.

createdTimestring

Timestamp when the setting was created in ISO 8601 format (yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z')

lastModifiedBystring

The unique identifier of the user who performed the most recent modification.

lastModifiedTimestring

Timestamp when the setting was last modified in ISO 8601 format (yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z')

lastModifiedReasonstring

The reason for the most recent modification, if available.

The ErrorIncomplete object

Error object for an incomplete response

ElementTypeDescription
codeinteger

The error code (HTTP response)

messagestring

The error message

retryAfterSecondsinteger

Number of seconds a request can be retried after a 'too many requests' error response.

detailsErrorDetails

Optional details of the error

The ErrorDetails object

Optional details of the error

ElementTypeDescription
errorRefstring

reference to the error occurrence in the internal self-monitoring, logging, etc.

constraintViolationsConstraintViolation[]

A list of constraint violations of input parameters (path, query, request body)

missingScopesstring[]

In case of a 403 - Forbidden response, a list of missing scopes necessary to successfully execute the request

The ConstraintViolation object

Contains information about a constraint violation caused by invalid input.

ElementTypeDescription
pathstring

The path of the parameter that caused the constraint violation

messagestring

The constraint violation description message

parameterLocationstring

Describes the general location of the violating parameter

The element can hold these values
  • PATH
  • QUERY
  • HEADER
  • PAYLOAD_BODY

The ErrorResponse object

ElementTypeDescription
errorError

Standard error response

The Error object

Standard error response

ElementTypeDescription
codenumber

The error code (HTTP response)

messagestring

The error message

retryAfterSecondsnumber

Number of seconds a request can be retried after a 'too many requests' error response.

detailsErrorDetails

Optional details of the error

The ErrorDetails object

Optional details of the error

ElementTypeDescription
errorRefstring

reference to the error occurrence in the internal self-monitoring, logging, etc.

constraintViolationsConstraintViolation[]

A list of constraint violations of input parameters (path, query, request body)

missingScopesstring[]

In case of a 403 - Forbidden response, a list of missing scopes necessary to successfully execute the request

The ConstraintViolation object

Contains information about a constraint violation caused by invalid input.

ElementTypeDescription
pathstring

The path of the parameter that caused the constraint violation

messagestring

The constraint violation description message

parameterLocationstring

Describes the general location of the violating parameter

The element can hold these values
  • PATH
  • QUERY
  • HEADER
  • PAYLOAD_BODY

Response body JSON models

{
"totalCount": 1,
"pageSize": 1,
"nextPageKey": "AQAAABQBAAAABQ==",
"items": [
{
"summary": "string",
"searchSummary": "string",
"schemaId": "jira-connection",
"schemaVersion": "1.0.0",
"value": {
"autoMonitoring": true
},
"modificationInfo": {
"createdBy": "fab17b7a-2eb2-4c95-b818-743d94be2c30",
"createdTime": "string",
"lastModifiedBy": "fab17b7a-2eb2-4c95-b818-743d94be2c30",
"lastModifiedTime": "string",
"lastModifiedReason": "string"
}
}
],
"error": {
"code": 1,
"message": "string",
"retryAfterSeconds": 1,
"details": {
"errorRef": "string",
"constraintViolations": [
{
"path": "string",
"message": "string",
"parameterLocation": "PATH"
}
],
"missingScopes": [
"string"
]
}
}
}
{
"error": {
"code": 1,
"message": "string",
"retryAfterSeconds": 1,
"details": {
"errorRef": "string",
"constraintViolations": [
{
"path": "string",
"message": "string",
"parameterLocation": "PATH"
}
],
"missingScopes": [
"string"
]
}
}
}
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