Create an ActiveGate token

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• Published Oct 13, 2026

Create an ActiveGate token in Dynatrace with the Fleet Management API with a name, expiration date, and seed token option; the response contains its secret.

Overview

You use this operation to create an ActiveGate token. The request body sets its name, expirationDate, and seedToken fields, and the new token is owned by the user who calls the API. A 201 response contains the token secret, which you can't retrieve again later, so store it securely right away.

Authentication

To execute this request, you need a platform token or OAuth access token with one of the following scopes:

To learn how to obtain and use it, see Tokens and authentication.

Parameters

{
  "expirationDate": "now+6M",
  "name": "myToken",
  "seedToken": false
}

Response

{
  "expirationDate": "2020-11-24T08:15:30.144Z",
  "id": "dt0g02.4KWZO5EF",
  "seedToken": false,
  "token": "dt0g02.4KWZO5EF.XT47R5DRADJIZUFOX4UDNOKTSUSABGLN7XSMJG7UXHRXKNY4WLORH4OF4T75MG7E"
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": 1,
    "constraintViolations": [
      {
        "location": "string",
        "message": "string",
        "parameterLocation": "HEADER",
        "path": "string"
      }
    ],
    "message": "string"
  }
}