Authentik Root API
Root configuration endpoint describing the running instance to its own frontend.
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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: authentik Root API
version: 2026.11.0-rc1
description: Making authentication simple.
contact:
email: hello@goauthentik.io
license:
name: MIT
url: https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/blob/main/LICENSE
x-source-url: https://api.goauthentik.io/schema.yml
x-last-validated: '2026-09-04'
servers:
- url: /api/v3
tags:
- name: root
paths:
/root/config/:
get:
operationId: root_config_retrieve
description: Retrieve public configuration options
tags:
- root
security:
- authentik: []
- {}
responses:
'200':
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Config'
description: ''
'400':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ValidationErrorResponse'
'403':
$ref: '#/components/responses/GenericErrorResponse'
components:
schemas:
CapabilitiesEnum:
enum:
- can_save_media
- can_save_reports
- can_geo_ip
- can_asn
- can_impersonate
- can_debug
- is_enterprise
- can_request
- can_agent_self_service
type: string
ErrorReportingConfig:
type: object
description: Config for error reporting
properties:
enabled:
type: boolean
readOnly: true
sentry_dsn:
type: string
readOnly: true
environment:
type: string
readOnly: true
send_pii:
type: boolean
readOnly: true
traces_sample_rate:
type: number
format: double
readOnly: true
required:
- enabled
- environment
- send_pii
- sentry_dsn
- traces_sample_rate
Config:
type: object
description: Serialize authentik Config into DRF Object
properties:
error_reporting:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorReportingConfig'
capabilities:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CapabilitiesEnum'
cache_timeout:
type: integer
cache_timeout_flows:
type: integer
cache_timeout_policies:
type: integer
required:
- cache_timeout
- cache_timeout_flows
- cache_timeout_policies
- capabilities
- error_reporting
ValidationError:
type: object
description: Validation Error
properties:
non_field_errors:
type: array
items:
type: string
code:
type: string
additionalProperties: {}
GenericError:
type: object
description: Generic API Error
properties:
detail:
type: string
code:
type: string
required:
- detail
responses:
ValidationErrorResponse:
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationError'
description: ''
GenericErrorResponse:
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/GenericError'
description: ''
securitySchemes:
authentik:
type: http
scheme: bearer
authentik_device_auth:
type: http
scheme: bearer+agent
authentik_device_enroll:
type: http
scheme: bearer
authentik_device_federation:
type: http
scheme: bearer