DPS permissions

• Reference
• Published Jun 26, 2026

Dynatrace offers several features to help you understand your Dynatrace Platform Subscription costs . To be able to use some of these features, you'll need to have a user account with specific permissions to retrieve data at the account, environment, or subscription level.

This page describes the permissions that you need to understand your DPS consumption and costs.

DPS permissions overview

The following table gives an overview of the different use cases and required permissions. The sections on this page describe each use case in more detail, such as setup instructions.

How to configure permissions

Account Management

License managers can view DPS consumption and cost directly in the Dynatrace UI under Account Management > Subscription > Overview > Cost and usage details > Usage summary.

To access this data, your user account must have one of the following Account Management permissions:

These permissions are granted in Account Management by a license administrator with the View and manage users and groups permission. For more information, see Account Management permissions.

Account Management API

You can query DPS consumption programmatically via the Account Management API to integrate into external reporting.

To do this, create an OAuth client with the Allow read access for usage and consumption resources (account-uac-read) scope.

To create an OAuth client, go to Account Management > Identity & access management > OAuth clients. For more information, see Dynatrace Platform Subscription API - GET usage.