Validate a settings container

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• Published Oct 13, 2026

Validate a Dynatrace settings container with a custom validator using the Settings API to check a group of related values before you save them.

Overview

You use the schema-id path parameter and the required validator-id query parameter to validate a settings container, a group of related values, with a custom validator of the schema. The optional scope and schema-version query parameters set the context. Typical usage is checking related fields together in a settings editor.

Authentication

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

Parameters

{
  "path": "string",
  "key": "string",
  "value": {}
}

Response

{
  "valid": true,
  "message": "string",
  "constraintViolations": [
    {
      "message": "string",
      "path": "string"
    }
  ]
}