topic Re: Pods Ownership method in Open Q&A

Pods Ownership method

Babar_Qayyum — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:32:22 GMT

Dear All,

Is it possible to implement Pods Ownership through the API?

I am familiar with the best practices involving Kubernetes labels and annotations.

Regards,

Babar Qayyum

Re: Pods Ownership method

sujit_k_singh — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 01:17:30 GMT

Hi @Babar_Qayyum

For Pods specifically, ownership is applied through Kubernetes labels or annotations. which you are already familiar with it. There's no direct Dynatrace API to assign ownership to Pods.

However, I think you can still automate this via: Kubernetes API to programmatically apply dt.owner labels to your pods/deployments or CI/CD pipelines to inject the label at deployment time.

Thanks,

Sujit

Re: Pods Ownership method

Babar_Qayyum — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:33:16 GMT

Hello @sujit_k_singh

Thank you for your comments.

Regards,

Babar Qayyum