Update a credential entry

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• Published Oct 13, 2026
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Update a credential entry in the Dynatrace Credential Vault by its ID, including its name, type, scopes, and access settings, with the Credential Vault API.

Overview

You use the entry-id path parameter to choose the credential entry and send its new values in the request body, such as name, type, description, scopes, and ownerAccessOnly. The body must not contain an ID. Updating an entry owned by another user requires credential-vault:entries:admin, and a 204 response confirms the update.

Authentication

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

Parameters

{
  "allowContextlessRequests": "false",
  "allowedEntities": [
    {
      "id": "jane.doe@example.com",
      "type": "USER"
    },
    {
      "id": "john.smith@example.com",
      "type": "USER"
    },
    {
      "id": "my.with.credentials",
      "type": "APPLICATION"
    }
  ],
  "description": "Sample set of credentials for API documentation",
  "name": "Sample credentials",
  "ownerAccessOnly": false,
  "password": "1234abcd",
  "scope": "SYNTHETIC",
  "scopes": [
    "SYNTHETIC",
    "EXTENSION_AUTHENTICATION"
  ],
  "type": "USERNAME_PASSWORD",
  "user": "john.smith@example.com"
}

Response

{
  "error": {
    "code": 1,
    "details": {
      "type": "constraintViolation"
    },
    "message": "string"
  }
}