Tokens and oauth client concepts

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IAM tokens

Dynatrace SaaS Token Service issues, validates, and manages the token lifecycle. This includes

  • Tokens that are automatically exchanged in the background with web clients upon successful user logins.
  • Other tokens such as OAuth tokens, platform tokens, and tokens exchanged for service user access.

IAM token types

The following token types are issued by the token service relevant to IAM.

Token type

Description

Who can generate

Expiry configurable?

Scope

Usage

Example use cases

ID

User identity information

Users, applications

No

User identity attributes

Authentication

Verifying user identity, SSO, introspection API endpoints

OAuth

OAuth 2.0 authentication, granting access to resources

Administrators

No

Defined by administrator at token creation

API access, third-party integrations

Grant external tools or scripts access to Dynatrace APIs with scoped user permissions.

Platform

Regular user’s platform access automations

Users

Yes

User-specific permissions

API access

Schedule Grail query for data export, ingest events via the API

Service

Machine-to-machine authentication and authorization

Administrators

No

Defined by administrator at token creation

Workflow automations

Workflow automation

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