When a Dynatrace Managed cluster starts out, accounts are created locally in the Cluster Management Console. That is handy for a pilot, but untenable at scale: dozens of teams, joiners and leavers every week, auditors asking who has access to what. A local account forgotten after a contractor leaves is exactly the kind of gap a security review flags first. Dynatrace Managed LDAP or SAML authentication solves this at the source.

Because the cluster lives in your infrastructure, connecting it to your corporate directory is your job. Managed can rely on LDAP / Active Directory for authentication and group synchronisation, or on a SAML 2.0 identity provider (ADFS, Keycloak, Okta, Entra ID…) for SSO.…