honeycomb Auth API

Validate authentication for a key, determine what authorizations have been granted to a key, and determine the Team and Environment it belongs to.

Operations 2

GET /1/auth Authenticate API key #
GET /1/auth/permissions List authorizations #

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OpenAPI Specification

honeycomb-auth-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Honeycomb Auth API
  description: The Honeycomb API is a REST API that provides programmatic access to the Honeycomb observability platform. It enables developers to manage datasets and columns, configure SLOs and burn alerts, set up triggers and recipients, manage boards and markers, administer environments, API keys, and access auth, query annotations, calculated fields, marker settings, reporting, dataset definitions, and service maps.
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: Honeycomb Support
    url: https://support.honeycomb.io
  termsOfService: https://www.honeycomb.io/terms-of-service
servers:
- url: https://api.honeycomb.io
  description: Honeycomb Production API
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:
- name: Auth
  description: Validate authentication for a key, determine what authorizations have been granted to a key, and determine the Team and Environment it belongs to.
paths:
  /1/auth:
    get:
      operationId: getAuth
      summary: Authenticate API key
      description: Validates authentication for a key and returns the team and environment that the key belongs to.
      tags:
      - Auth
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful authentication
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/AuthInfo'
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized - invalid API key
  /1/auth/permissions:
    get:
      operationId: listAuthorizations
      summary: List authorizations
      description: Determines what authorizations have been granted to the API key.
      tags:
      - Auth
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List of authorizations for the key
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/AuthPermissions'
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized - invalid API key
components:
  schemas:
    AuthPermissions:
      type: object
      properties:
        api_key_access:
          type: object
          description: The permissions and access levels granted to the API key.
          additionalProperties:
            type: boolean
    AuthInfo:
      type: object
      properties:
        team:
          type: object
          description: The team associated with the API key.
          properties:
            slug:
              type: string
              description: The slug identifier for the team.
            name:
              type: string
              description: The display name of the team.
        environment:
          type: object
          description: The environment associated with the API key, if applicable.
          properties:
            slug:
              type: string
              description: The slug identifier for the environment.
            name:
              type: string
              description: The display name of the environment.
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-Honeycomb-Team
      description: Honeycomb Configuration API key. Must have appropriate permissions for the endpoint being called.
externalDocs:
  description: Honeycomb API Documentation
  url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api