Transfer ownership of a settings object

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• Published Oct 13, 2026

Transfer ownership of a settings object in Dynatrace with the App Settings API, using the object ID and a new owner value.

Overview

You provide the object ID path parameter and optional admin-access, and you send newOwner in the request body. The operation transfers ownership of the settings object and returns success with no content.

Authentication

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

Parameters

{
  "newOwner": {
    "type": "user",
    "id": "string"
  }
}

Response

{
  "error": {
    "code": 1,
    "message": "string",
    "retryAfterSeconds": 1,
    "details": {
      "errorRef": "string",
      "constraintViolations": [
        {
          "path": "string",
          "message": "string",
          "parameterLocation": "PATH"
        }
      ],
      "missingScopes": [
        "string"
      ]
    }
  }
}