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Create One Agent API Key

Base URL: https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/public/v1.0

Resource

POST /groups/{PROJECT-ID}/agentapikeys

This endpoint is restricted to users with the Project Owner role.

Request Path Parameters

Name Type Description
PROJECT-ID string Unique identifier of the project that owns the Agent API Key.

Request Query Parameters

The following query parameters are optional:

Name Type Necessity Description Default
pretty boolean Optional Flag indicating whether the response body should be in a prettyprint format. false
envelope boolean Optional

Flag that indicates whether or not to wrap the response in an envelope.

Some API clients cannot access the HTTP response headers or status code. To remediate this, set envelope=true in the query.

For endpoints that return one result, the response body includes:

Name Description
status HTTP response code
envelope Expected response body
false

Request Body Parameters

Name Type Description
desc string Label for this Agent API Key.

Response

Name Type Description
id string Unique identifier of this Agent API Key.
key string

Agent API Key.

Note

After creating this Agent API Key, subsequent requests return the last four characters of Agent API Keys.

desc string Label for this Agent API Key. Limited to 1,000 characters.
createdTime string Timestamp in ISO 8601 date and time format in UTC when the Agent API Key was created.
createdUserId string Unique identifier of user who created this Agent API Key.
createdIpAddr string IP address that created this Agent API Key.
createdBy string

Source of this Agent API Key. Accepted values are:

  • USER
  • OLD_KEY
  • PROVISIONING
  • ATLAS
  • PUBLIC_API

Example Request

curl --user "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest \
 --header "Accept: application/json" \
 --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
 --include \
 --request POST "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/public/v1.0/groups/{PROJECT-ID}/agentapikeys?pretty=true" \
 --data '
   {
     "desc": "Agent API Key for this project"
   }'

Example Response

Response Header

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Content-Type: application/json;charset=ISO-8859-1
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
WWW-Authenticate: Digest realm="MMS Public API", domain="", nonce="{nonce}", algorithm=MD5, op="auth", stale=false
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
Connection: keep-alive
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: application/json
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=300
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
X-MongoDB-Service-Version: gitHash={gitHash}; versionString={ApplicationVersion}

Response Body

{
  "_id" : "{AGENT-API-KEY-ID}",
  "createdBy" : "PUBLIC_API",
  "createdIpAddr" : "{IP-ADDRESS}",
  "createdTime" : 1520458807291,
  "createdUserId" : "{USER-ID}",
  "desc" : "Agent API Key for this project",
  "key" : "{AGENT-API-KEY}"
}