Get an action execution

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• Published Oct 13, 2026

Retrieve an action execution in Dynatrace with the Automation API by UUID, and optionally use admin access to view all workflows and executions.

Overview

You provide the action execution UUID in the path, and you can also set adminAccess to allow access to all workflows and executions. Dynatrace returns the action execution details for the Automation API.

Authentication

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

Parameters

Response

{
  "id": "string",
  "taskExe": "string",
  "state": "ERROR",
  "stateInfo": "string",
  "input": {},
  "result": {},
  "startedAt": "string",
  "endedAt": "string",
  "runtime": 1,
  "actionExecutionId": "string",
  "attempt": 1,
  "loopItem": {},
  "action": "string"
}

{
  "error": {
    "message": "string",
    "code": 1,
    "details": {
      "errorCode": "string",
      "errorRef": "string"
    }
  }
}