API keys are unique to your organization. An API key is used by our logging integration methods as a unique identifier to route log data to your account. Using an API key alongside a Service name and Service namespace in your logging configurations, alows us to route log data to the correct service.
Settings > API Keys
item from the application sidebar to manage your API Keys.
Select Create a new API Key
Choose a name for this key
Select a Role (Ingestion Role, Search Role or Admin Role)
Select Create Key to be presented with the new api key. Please copy this to a safe location as it will not appear again
Role Name | Description | Required for following features |
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Admin | Access to all read write permissions on an account | Creating API Keys |
Search | Read permissions for an accounts data | Interacting with Rest API |
Ingestion | Used for writing and sending data to a service in your account | Log ingestion |