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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

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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}"
}

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