Validate API key - Key Management

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GEThttps://api.datadoghq.com/api/v2/validatehttps://api.us3.datadoghq.com/api/v2/validatehttps://api.us5.datadoghq.com/api/v2/validatehttps://api.datadoghq.eu/api/v2/validatehttps://api.ap1.datadoghq.com/api/v2/validatehttps://api.ap2.datadoghq.com/api/v2/validatehttps://api.uk1.datadoghq.com/api/v2/validatehttps://api.ddog-gov.com/api/v2/validatehttps://api.us2.ddog-gov.com/api/v2/validate

Overview

Check if the API key is valid. Returns the organization UUID, API key ID, and associated scopes.

Response

Response for the API key validation endpoint.

Field

Type

Description

data [required]

object

Data object containing the API key validation result.

{
  "data": {
    "attributes": {
      "api_key_id": "a1b2c3d4-e5f6-47a8-b9c0-d1e2f3a4b5c6",
      "api_key_scopes": [
        "remote_config_read"
      ],
      "valid": true
    },
    "id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
    "type": "validate_v2"
  }
}

Forbidden

API error response.

Field

Type

Description

errors [required]

[object]

A list of errors.

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "detail": "Missing required attribute in body",
      "meta": {},
      "source": {
        "header": "Authorization",
        "parameter": "limit",
        "pointer": "/data/attributes/title"
      },
      "status": "400",
      "title": "Bad Request"
    }
  ]
}

Too many requests

API error response.

Field

Type

Description

errors [required]

[string]

A list of errors.

{
  "errors": [
    "Bad Request"
  ]
}

Code Example

Validate API key

# Set your Datadog site and credentials
export DD_SITE="datadoghq.com"
export DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>"

curl -X GET "https://api.${DD_SITE}/api/v2/validate" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "DD-API-KEY: ${DD_API_KEY}"

# Set your Datadog site and credentials
export DD_SITE="us3.datadoghq.com"
export DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>"

curl -X GET "https://api.${DD_SITE}/api/v2/validate" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "DD-API-KEY: ${DD_API_KEY}"

# Set your Datadog site and credentials
export DD_SITE="us5.datadoghq.com"
export DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>"

curl -X GET "https://api.${DD_SITE}/api/v2/validate" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "DD-API-KEY: ${DD_API_KEY}"

# Set your Datadog site and credentials
export DD_SITE="datadoghq.eu"
export DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>"

curl -X GET "https://api.${DD_SITE}/api/v2/validate" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "DD-API-KEY: ${DD_API_KEY}"

# Set your Datadog site and credentials
export DD_SITE="ap1.datadoghq.com"
export DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>"

curl -X GET "https://api.${DD_SITE}/api/v2/validate" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "DD-API-KEY: ${DD_API_KEY}"

# Set your Datadog site and credentials
export DD_SITE="ap2.datadoghq.com"
export DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>"

curl -X GET "https://api.${DD_SITE}/api/v2/validate" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "DD-API-KEY: ${DD_API_KEY}"

# Set your Datadog site and credentials
export DD_SITE="uk1.datadoghq.com"
export DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>"

curl -X GET "https://api.${DD_SITE}/api/v2/validate" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "DD-API-KEY: ${DD_API_KEY}"

# Set your Datadog site and credentials
export DD_SITE="ddog-gov.com"
export DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>"

curl -X GET "https://api.${DD_SITE}/api/v2/validate" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "DD-API-KEY: ${DD_API_KEY}"

# Set your Datadog site and credentials
export DD_SITE="us2.ddog-gov.com"
export DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>"

curl -X GET "https://api.${DD_SITE}/api/v2/validate" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "DD-API-KEY: ${DD_API_KEY}"

Validate API key

// Validate API key returns "OK" response

package main

import (
	"context"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"os"

	"github.com/DataDog/datadog-api-client-go/v2/api/datadog"
	"github.com/DataDog/datadog-api-client-go/v2/api/datadogV2"
)

func main() {
	ctx := datadog.NewDefaultContext(context.Background())
	configuration := datadog.NewConfiguration()
	configuration.SetUnstableOperationEnabled("v2.Validate", true)
	apiClient := datadog.NewAPIClient(configuration)
	api := datadogV2.NewKeyManagementApi(apiClient)
	resp, r, err := api.Validate(ctx)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error when calling `KeyManagementApi.Validate`: %v\n", err)
		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Full HTTP response: %v\n", r)
	}

	responseContent, _ := json.MarshalIndent(resp, "", "  ")
	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stdout, "Response from `KeyManagementApi.Validate`:\n%s\n", responseContent)
}

Instructions

First install the library and its dependencies and then save the example to main.go and run following commands:

DD_SITE="datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" go run "main.go"

DD_SITE="us3.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" go run "main.go"

DD_SITE="us5.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" go run "main.go"

DD_SITE="datadoghq.eu" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" go run "main.go"

DD_SITE="ap1.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" go run "main.go"

DD_SITE="ap2.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" go run "main.go"

DD_SITE="uk1.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" go run "main.go"

DD_SITE="ddog-gov.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" go run "main.go"

DD_SITE="us2.ddog-gov.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" go run "main.go"

Validate API key

// Validate API key returns "OK" response

import com.datadog.api.client.ApiClient;
import com.datadog.api.client.ApiException;
import com.datadog.api.client.v2.api.KeyManagementApi;
import com.datadog.api.client.v2.model.ValidateV2Response;

public class Example {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    ApiClient defaultClient = ApiClient.getDefaultApiClient();
    defaultClient.setUnstableOperationEnabled("v2.validate", true);
    KeyManagementApi apiInstance = new KeyManagementApi(defaultClient);

    try {
      ValidateV2Response result = apiInstance.validate();
      System.out.println(result);
    } catch (ApiException e) {
      System.err.println("Exception when calling KeyManagementApi#validate");
      System.err.println("Status code: " + e.getCode());
      System.err.println("Reason: " + e.getResponseBody());
      System.err.println("Response headers: " + e.getResponseHeaders());
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
}

Instructions

First install the library and its dependencies and then save the example to Example.java and run following commands:

DD_SITE="datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" java "Example.java"

DD_SITE="us3.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" java "Example.java"

DD_SITE="us5.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" java "Example.java"

DD_SITE="datadoghq.eu" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" java "Example.java"

DD_SITE="ap1.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" java "Example.java"

DD_SITE="ap2.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" java "Example.java"

DD_SITE="uk1.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" java "Example.java"

DD_SITE="ddog-gov.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" java "Example.java"

DD_SITE="us2.ddog-gov.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" java "Example.java"

Validate API key

"""
Validate API key returns "OK" response
"""

from datadog_api_client import ApiClient, Configuration
from datadog_api_client.v2.api.key_management_api import KeyManagementApi

configuration = Configuration()
configuration.unstable_operations["validate"] = True
with ApiClient(configuration) as api_client:
    api_instance = KeyManagementApi(api_client)
    response = api_instance.validate()

    print(response)

Instructions

First install the library and its dependencies and then save the example to example.py and run following commands:

DD_SITE="datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" python3 "example.py"

DD_SITE="us3.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" python3 "example.py"

DD_SITE="us5.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" python3 "example.py"

DD_SITE="datadoghq.eu" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" python3 "example.py"

DD_SITE="ap1.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" python3 "example.py"

DD_SITE="ap2.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" python3 "example.py"

DD_SITE="uk1.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" python3 "example.py"

DD_SITE="ddog-gov.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" python3 "example.py"

DD_SITE="us2.ddog-gov.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" python3 "example.py"

Validate API key

# Validate API key returns "OK" response

require "datadog_api_client"
DatadogAPIClient.configure do |config|
  config.unstable_operations["v2.validate".to_sym] = true
end
api_instance = DatadogAPIClient::V2::KeyManagementAPI.new
p api_instance.validate()

Instructions

First install the library and its dependencies and then save the example to example.rb and run following commands:

DD_SITE="datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" rb "example.rb"

DD_SITE="us3.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" rb "example.rb"

DD_SITE="us5.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" rb "example.rb"

DD_SITE="datadoghq.eu" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" rb "example.rb"

DD_SITE="ap1.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" rb "example.rb"

DD_SITE="ap2.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" rb "example.rb"

DD_SITE="uk1.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" rb "example.rb"

DD_SITE="ddog-gov.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" rb "example.rb"

DD_SITE="us2.ddog-gov.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" rb "example.rb"

Validate API key

// Validate API key returns "OK" response
use datadog_api_client::datadog;
use datadog_api_client::datadogV2::api_key_management::KeyManagementAPI;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
    let mut configuration = datadog::Configuration::new();
    configuration.set_unstable_operation_enabled("v2.validate", true);
    let api = KeyManagementAPI::with_config(configuration);
    let resp = api.validate().await;
    if let Ok(value) = resp {
        println!("{:#?}", value);
    } else {
        println!("{:#?}", resp.unwrap_err());
    }
}

Instructions

First install the library and its dependencies and then save the example to src/main.rs and run following commands:

DD_SITE="datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" cargo run

DD_SITE="us3.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" cargo run

DD_SITE="us5.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" cargo run

DD_SITE="datadoghq.eu" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" cargo run

DD_SITE="ap1.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" cargo run

DD_SITE="ap2.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" cargo run

DD_SITE="uk1.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" cargo run

DD_SITE="ddog-gov.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" cargo run

DD_SITE="us2.ddog-gov.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" cargo run

Validate API key

/**
 * Validate API key returns "OK" response
 */

import { client, v2 } from "@datadog/datadog-api-client";

const configuration = client.createConfiguration();
configuration.unstableOperations["v2.validate"] = true;
const apiInstance = new v2.KeyManagementApi(configuration);

apiInstance
  .validate()
  .then((data: v2.ValidateV2Response) => {
    console.log(
      "API called successfully. Returned data: " + JSON.stringify(data)
    );
  })
  .catch((error: any) => console.error(error));

Instructions

First install the library and its dependencies and then save the example to example.ts and run following commands:

DD_SITE="datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" tsc "example.ts"

DD_SITE="us3.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" tsc "example.ts"

DD_SITE="us5.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" tsc "example.ts"

DD_SITE="datadoghq.eu" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" tsc "example.ts"

DD_SITE="ap1.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" tsc "example.ts"

DD_SITE="ap2.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" tsc "example.ts"

DD_SITE="uk1.datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" tsc "example.ts"

DD_SITE="ddog-gov.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" tsc "example.ts"

DD_SITE="us2.ddog-gov.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" tsc "example.ts"