Dynatrace · Rate Limits

Dynatrace Rate Limits

Dynatrace API rate limits are enforced per environment and per access token. The platform does not publish a single rate-limit page; limits vary by API (Environment, Configuration, Account Management, OpenPipeline, Davis AI, DQL/Grail Query). Throttled callers receive HTTP 429 with Retry-After. Quota for ingest is governed by your subscription (DDU/DPS/host quota), not by raw HTTP request rate.

Dynatrace Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Dynatrace on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 6 rate-limit definitions, measuring varies, data_points_per_minute, GiB_per_minute, and concurrent_queries.

The profile also includes 4 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled, quotaExceeded, and serviceUnavailable.

Tagged areas include Rate Limiting, Observability, and APM.

6 Limits Throttle: 429 Quota: 429
Rate LimitingObservabilityAPM

Limits

Environment API (per-tenant) tenant
varies
see Dynatrace API reference per endpoint
Configuration API (per-tenant) tenant
varies
see Configuration API reference
Account Management API account
varies
see Account Management API reference
Metrics ingest tenant
data_points_per_minute
governed by DDU/DPS quota
Throughput governed by your subscription consumption units rather than HTTP rate.
Logs ingest tenant
GiB_per_minute
governed by Log Management entitlement
DQL/Grail query tenant
concurrent_queries
see Grail concurrency guidance

Policies

Retry on 429
Honor the Retry-After header on 429 responses; back off exponentially with jitter.
Token-scope limits
API tokens carry permission scopes that may impose tighter limits than the tenant default; refresh or rotate tokens via the Access Tokens API.
Subscription-driven quotas
Ingest throughput (metrics, logs, traces) is bounded by Davis Data Units (DDU), Dynatrace Platform Subscription (DPS) units, or host capacity, not raw HTTP rate.
Sandbox vs production
Sandbox environments share lower limits than production tenants; do not load-test against sandbox.

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