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PATCH
/
users
/
{userId}
Update a user
curl --request PATCH \
  --url https://api.eu.bronto.io/users/{userId} \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'X-BRONTO-API-KEY: <api-key>' \
  --data '
{
  "first_name": "Alice",
  "last_name": "Smith",
  "roles": [
    "Admin",
    "Standard",
    "ReadOnly"
  ],
  "login_methods": {}
}
'
import requests

url = "https://api.eu.bronto.io/users/{userId}"

payload = {
"first_name": "Alice",
"last_name": "Smith",
"roles": ["Admin", "Standard", "ReadOnly"],
"login_methods": {}
}
headers = {
"X-BRONTO-API-KEY": "<api-key>",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.patch(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)
const options = {
method: 'PATCH',
headers: {'X-BRONTO-API-KEY': '<api-key>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify({
first_name: 'Alice',
last_name: 'Smith',
roles: ['Admin', 'Standard', 'ReadOnly'],
login_methods: {}
})
};

fetch('https://api.eu.bronto.io/users/{userId}', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.eu.bronto.io/users/{userId}",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "PATCH",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'first_name' => 'Alice',
'last_name' => 'Smith',
'roles' => [
'Admin',
'Standard',
'ReadOnly'
],
'login_methods' => [

]
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Content-Type: application/json",
"X-BRONTO-API-KEY: <api-key>"
],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}
package main

import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)

func main() {

url := "https://api.eu.bronto.io/users/{userId}"

payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"first_name\": \"Alice\",\n \"last_name\": \"Smith\",\n \"roles\": [\n \"Admin\",\n \"Standard\",\n \"ReadOnly\"\n ],\n \"login_methods\": {}\n}")

req, _ := http.NewRequest("PATCH", url, payload)

req.Header.Add("X-BRONTO-API-KEY", "<api-key>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

fmt.Println(string(body))

}
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.patch("https://api.eu.bronto.io/users/{userId}")
.header("X-BRONTO-API-KEY", "<api-key>")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.body("{\n \"first_name\": \"Alice\",\n \"last_name\": \"Smith\",\n \"roles\": [\n \"Admin\",\n \"Standard\",\n \"ReadOnly\"\n ],\n \"login_methods\": {}\n}")
.asString();
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.eu.bronto.io/users/{userId}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Patch.new(url)
request["X-BRONTO-API-KEY"] = '<api-key>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"first_name\": \"Alice\",\n \"last_name\": \"Smith\",\n \"roles\": [\n \"Admin\",\n \"Standard\",\n \"ReadOnly\"\n ],\n \"login_methods\": {}\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
{
  "id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
  "first_name": "John",
  "last_name": "Doe",
  "email": "john@company.com",
  "roles": [
    "ReadOnly",
    "Standard"
  ],
  "last_logins": {
    "Okta": 1731370728,
    "Password": 1731338939
  },
  "login_methods": [
    {
      "name": "Password",
      "enabled": true
    }
  ],
  "tags": {
    "region": "eu",
    "environment": "production"
  },
  "invited_at": 1731370728,
  "invited_by": "admin@company.com"
}
{
"bad_request_validation": {
"summary": "Bad Request - Validation Error",
"description": "Example error when request validation fails",
"value": {
"code": 400,
"type": "Bad Request",
"correlation_id": "95c6a974e3ab01209b6b0dfedb1b16c5",
"details": "Validation failed: 'name' field is required and cannot be empty"
}
},
"bad_request_invalid_type": {
"summary": "Bad Request - Invalid Metric Type",
"description": "Example error when an invalid metric type is provided",
"value": {
"code": 400,
"type": "Bad Request",
"correlation_id": "00d8a51bb2874f2583670317a4fb8db7",
"details": "Invalid metric_type 'INVALID'. Must be one of: COUNTER, GAUGE, HISTOGRAM"
}
},
"forbidden": {
"summary": "Forbidden Access",
"description": "Example error when user lacks required permissions",
"value": {
"code": 403,
"type": "Forbidden",
"correlation_id": "40276639de0f49d586e32edd8c4f6b34",
"details": "Access denied. User does not have permission to create metric definition templates"
}
},
"not_found": {
"summary": "Resource Not Found",
"description": "Example error when requested resource doesn't exist",
"value": {
"code": 404,
"type": "Not Found",
"correlation_id": "605f832bcfe44a1081441691c8d42253",
"details": "Metric definition template with id '550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000' not found"
}
},
"rate_limit": {
"summary": "Rate Limit Exceeded",
"description": "Example error when API rate limit is exceeded",
"value": {
"code": 429,
"type": "Too Many Requests",
"correlation_id": "53909ed43c544531b7a555e295960437",
"details": "Rate limit exceeded. Maximum 100 requests are allowed within a 5-minute window"
}
},
"internal_server_error": {
"summary": "Internal Server Error",
"description": "Example error for unexpected server-side failures",
"value": {
"code": 500,
"type": "Internal Server Error",
"correlation_id": "b129b8e0e66c41aa9541a30f67e38ce2",
"details": "An unexpected error occurred while processing your request"
}
}
}
{
"bad_request_validation": {
"summary": "Bad Request - Validation Error",
"description": "Example error when request validation fails",
"value": {
"code": 400,
"type": "Bad Request",
"correlation_id": "95c6a974e3ab01209b6b0dfedb1b16c5",
"details": "Validation failed: 'name' field is required and cannot be empty"
}
},
"bad_request_invalid_type": {
"summary": "Bad Request - Invalid Metric Type",
"description": "Example error when an invalid metric type is provided",
"value": {
"code": 400,
"type": "Bad Request",
"correlation_id": "00d8a51bb2874f2583670317a4fb8db7",
"details": "Invalid metric_type 'INVALID'. Must be one of: COUNTER, GAUGE, HISTOGRAM"
}
},
"forbidden": {
"summary": "Forbidden Access",
"description": "Example error when user lacks required permissions",
"value": {
"code": 403,
"type": "Forbidden",
"correlation_id": "40276639de0f49d586e32edd8c4f6b34",
"details": "Access denied. User does not have permission to create metric definition templates"
}
},
"not_found": {
"summary": "Resource Not Found",
"description": "Example error when requested resource doesn't exist",
"value": {
"code": 404,
"type": "Not Found",
"correlation_id": "605f832bcfe44a1081441691c8d42253",
"details": "Metric definition template with id '550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000' not found"
}
},
"rate_limit": {
"summary": "Rate Limit Exceeded",
"description": "Example error when API rate limit is exceeded",
"value": {
"code": 429,
"type": "Too Many Requests",
"correlation_id": "53909ed43c544531b7a555e295960437",
"details": "Rate limit exceeded. Maximum 100 requests are allowed within a 5-minute window"
}
},
"internal_server_error": {
"summary": "Internal Server Error",
"description": "Example error for unexpected server-side failures",
"value": {
"code": 500,
"type": "Internal Server Error",
"correlation_id": "b129b8e0e66c41aa9541a30f67e38ce2",
"details": "An unexpected error occurred while processing your request"
}
}
}
{
"bad_request_validation": {
"summary": "Bad Request - Validation Error",
"description": "Example error when request validation fails",
"value": {
"code": 400,
"type": "Bad Request",
"correlation_id": "95c6a974e3ab01209b6b0dfedb1b16c5",
"details": "Validation failed: 'name' field is required and cannot be empty"
}
},
"bad_request_invalid_type": {
"summary": "Bad Request - Invalid Metric Type",
"description": "Example error when an invalid metric type is provided",
"value": {
"code": 400,
"type": "Bad Request",
"correlation_id": "00d8a51bb2874f2583670317a4fb8db7",
"details": "Invalid metric_type 'INVALID'. Must be one of: COUNTER, GAUGE, HISTOGRAM"
}
},
"forbidden": {
"summary": "Forbidden Access",
"description": "Example error when user lacks required permissions",
"value": {
"code": 403,
"type": "Forbidden",
"correlation_id": "40276639de0f49d586e32edd8c4f6b34",
"details": "Access denied. User does not have permission to create metric definition templates"
}
},
"not_found": {
"summary": "Resource Not Found",
"description": "Example error when requested resource doesn't exist",
"value": {
"code": 404,
"type": "Not Found",
"correlation_id": "605f832bcfe44a1081441691c8d42253",
"details": "Metric definition template with id '550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000' not found"
}
},
"rate_limit": {
"summary": "Rate Limit Exceeded",
"description": "Example error when API rate limit is exceeded",
"value": {
"code": 429,
"type": "Too Many Requests",
"correlation_id": "53909ed43c544531b7a555e295960437",
"details": "Rate limit exceeded. Maximum 100 requests are allowed within a 5-minute window"
}
},
"internal_server_error": {
"summary": "Internal Server Error",
"description": "Example error for unexpected server-side failures",
"value": {
"code": 500,
"type": "Internal Server Error",
"correlation_id": "b129b8e0e66c41aa9541a30f67e38ce2",
"details": "An unexpected error occurred while processing your request"
}
}
}
{
"bad_request_validation": {
"summary": "Bad Request - Validation Error",
"description": "Example error when request validation fails",
"value": {
"code": 400,
"type": "Bad Request",
"correlation_id": "95c6a974e3ab01209b6b0dfedb1b16c5",
"details": "Validation failed: 'name' field is required and cannot be empty"
}
},
"bad_request_invalid_type": {
"summary": "Bad Request - Invalid Metric Type",
"description": "Example error when an invalid metric type is provided",
"value": {
"code": 400,
"type": "Bad Request",
"correlation_id": "00d8a51bb2874f2583670317a4fb8db7",
"details": "Invalid metric_type 'INVALID'. Must be one of: COUNTER, GAUGE, HISTOGRAM"
}
},
"forbidden": {
"summary": "Forbidden Access",
"description": "Example error when user lacks required permissions",
"value": {
"code": 403,
"type": "Forbidden",
"correlation_id": "40276639de0f49d586e32edd8c4f6b34",
"details": "Access denied. User does not have permission to create metric definition templates"
}
},
"not_found": {
"summary": "Resource Not Found",
"description": "Example error when requested resource doesn't exist",
"value": {
"code": 404,
"type": "Not Found",
"correlation_id": "605f832bcfe44a1081441691c8d42253",
"details": "Metric definition template with id '550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000' not found"
}
},
"rate_limit": {
"summary": "Rate Limit Exceeded",
"description": "Example error when API rate limit is exceeded",
"value": {
"code": 429,
"type": "Too Many Requests",
"correlation_id": "53909ed43c544531b7a555e295960437",
"details": "Rate limit exceeded. Maximum 100 requests are allowed within a 5-minute window"
}
},
"internal_server_error": {
"summary": "Internal Server Error",
"description": "Example error for unexpected server-side failures",
"value": {
"code": 500,
"type": "Internal Server Error",
"correlation_id": "b129b8e0e66c41aa9541a30f67e38ce2",
"details": "An unexpected error occurred while processing your request"
}
}
}
{
"bad_request_validation": {
"summary": "Bad Request - Validation Error",
"description": "Example error when request validation fails",
"value": {
"code": 400,
"type": "Bad Request",
"correlation_id": "95c6a974e3ab01209b6b0dfedb1b16c5",
"details": "Validation failed: 'name' field is required and cannot be empty"
}
},
"bad_request_invalid_type": {
"summary": "Bad Request - Invalid Metric Type",
"description": "Example error when an invalid metric type is provided",
"value": {
"code": 400,
"type": "Bad Request",
"correlation_id": "00d8a51bb2874f2583670317a4fb8db7",
"details": "Invalid metric_type 'INVALID'. Must be one of: COUNTER, GAUGE, HISTOGRAM"
}
},
"forbidden": {
"summary": "Forbidden Access",
"description": "Example error when user lacks required permissions",
"value": {
"code": 403,
"type": "Forbidden",
"correlation_id": "40276639de0f49d586e32edd8c4f6b34",
"details": "Access denied. User does not have permission to create metric definition templates"
}
},
"not_found": {
"summary": "Resource Not Found",
"description": "Example error when requested resource doesn't exist",
"value": {
"code": 404,
"type": "Not Found",
"correlation_id": "605f832bcfe44a1081441691c8d42253",
"details": "Metric definition template with id '550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000' not found"
}
},
"rate_limit": {
"summary": "Rate Limit Exceeded",
"description": "Example error when API rate limit is exceeded",
"value": {
"code": 429,
"type": "Too Many Requests",
"correlation_id": "53909ed43c544531b7a555e295960437",
"details": "Rate limit exceeded. Maximum 100 requests are allowed within a 5-minute window"
}
},
"internal_server_error": {
"summary": "Internal Server Error",
"description": "Example error for unexpected server-side failures",
"value": {
"code": 500,
"type": "Internal Server Error",
"correlation_id": "b129b8e0e66c41aa9541a30f67e38ce2",
"details": "An unexpected error occurred while processing your request"
}
}
}

Authorizations

X-BRONTO-API-KEY
string
header
required

Path Parameters

userId
string<uuid>
required

The unique identifier of the user to update

Body

application/json
first_name
string

The user's first name

Required string length: 1 - 255
Example:

"Alice"

last_name
string

The user's last name

Required string length: 1 - 255
Example:

"Smith"

roles
string[]

A list of role ids

Example:
["Admin", "Standard", "ReadOnly"]
login_methods
object

Response

User updated successfully

id
string<uuid>
required

The unique identifier for the user

first_name
string
required

The user's first name

Example:

"John"

last_name
string
required

The user's last name

Example:

"Doe"

email
string<email>
required

The user's email address

Example:

"john@company.com"

roles
string[]

A list of role ids

Example:
["ReadOnly", "Standard"]
last_logins
object

A map of login methods to their last login timestamps (Unix epoch).

Example:
{
"Okta": 1731370728,
"Password": 1731338939
}
login_methods
object[]
tags
object

A map of key value pairs associated with this log

Example:
{
"region": "eu",
"environment": "production"
}
status
enum<string>

Current status of the user

Available options:
INVITED,
ACTIVE,
INACTIVE,
DEACTIVATED,
MIGRATED,
REMOVED
invited_at
integer<int64>

Unix timestamp (seconds) of the last invitation sent to the user

Example:

1731370728

invited_by
string

Identifier for the user who sent the latest invitation

Example:

"admin@company.com"