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Authentication Settings

APImetrics has an authentication manager that is used to simplify the process of handling authentication for monitors. If you have monitors with authentication, you can create a authentication setup that can be used to authorize multiple calls.

Key Concepts​

APImetrics breaks authentication into two parts

  • The authentication setup type such as API Key or OAuth
  • The token used by the authentication service.

Type of Authentication Supported​

  • Basic Authentication - using a username and password in the call
  • API Key - a key placed in the header or the parameters of the call
  • OAuth - a multi-step authentication process involving a call to an external service to generate a token.

OAuth Authentication​

OAuth is widely used standard for API authentication and authorization. APImetrics supports the following OAuth authentication flows in the product.

  • OAuth 1
  • OAuth 2
  • OAuth 2 + JWS
  • OAuth 2 + JWT
You cannot share your tokens

An authentication can have many tokens associated with it. Howver, because of security issues, we limit the sharing of individual tokens.