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Create a Service Account

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  • Resource
  • Request Path Parameters
  • Request Query Parameters
  • Request Body Parameters
  • Response
  • Example Request
  • Example Response
  • Response Header
  • Response Body

Base URL: https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/public/v1.0

Resource

POST /orgs/{ORG-ID}/serviceAccounts

Request Path Parameters

Name
Type
Description

ORG-ID

string

Unique identifier for the organization that you want to create a service account for. Use the /orgs endpoint to retrieve all organizations to which the authenticated user has access.

Request Query Parameters

The following query parameters are optional:

Name
Type
Description
Default

pageNum

integer

Page number (1-index based).

1

itemsPerPage

integer

Number of items to return per page, up to a maximum of 500.

100

pretty

boolean

Indicates whether the response body should be in a prettyprint format.

false

envelope

boolean

Indicates whether or not to wrap the response in an envelope.

Some API clients cannot access the HTTP response headers or status code. To remediate this, set "envelope" : true in the query.

For endpoints that return one result, response body includes:

Name
Description

status

HTTP response code

content

Expected response body

For endpoints that return a list of results, the results object is an envelope. Cloud Manager adds the status field to the response body.

None

Request Body Parameters

All body parameters are required.

Name
Type
Description

name

string

Name of the service account. Accepted characters are A-Z, a-z, 0-9, space, period ., apostrophe ', comma ,, underscore _, and dash -.

description

string

Description of the service account. Must be between 1 and 250 characters in length. Accepted characters are A-Z, a-z, 0-9, space, period ., apostrophe ', comma ,, underscore _, and dash -.

secretExpiresAfterHours

string

Number of hours after which the secret for this service account expires. The maximum is one year (8766 hours).

roles

string array

List of roles that the service account should have. There must be at least one role listed, and all roles must be valid for an Organization.

Organization roles include:

Role Value in API
Role

ORG_OWNER

Organization Owner

ORG_MEMBER

Organization Member

ORG_GROUP_CREATOR

Organization Project Creator

ORG_BILLING_ADMIN

Organization Billing Admin

ORG_READ_ONLY

Organization Read Only

ORG_BILLING_READ_ONLY

Organization Billing Viewer

Response

Name
Type
Description

clientId

string

Unique identifier for the service account.

description

string

Description of the service account. Accepted characters are A-Z, a-z, 0-9, space, period ., apostrophe ', comma ,, underscore _, and dash -.

name

string

Name of the service account. Accepted characters are A-Z, a-z, 0-9, space, period ., apostrophe ', comma ,, underscore _, and dash -.

createdAt

timestamp

Service account creation time.

secrets

object array

List of service account secrets.

secrets.id

string

Unique 24-hexadecimal character string that identifies the secret.

secrets.secret

string

Service account secret, available only at creation.

secrets.maskedSecretValue

string

Masked secret that only displays the prefix and last four characters.

secrets.createdAt

timestamp

Timestamp representing secret creation time.

secrets.lastUsedAt

timestamp

Timestamp representing last secret usage.

secrets.expiresAt

timestamp

Timestamp representing secret expiration time.

roles

object array

Roles that the service account has in the organization.

Organization roles include:

Example Request

Note

The user who makes the request can be formatted as {PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}.

curl --user "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest \
     --header "Accept: application/json" \
     --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
     --request POST "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/public/v1.0/orgs/{ORG-ID}/serviceAccounts?pretty=true" \
     --data '{
      "name": "Billing",
      "description": "Service account for users in finance.",
      "secretExpiresAfterHours": 3600,
      "roles": ["ORG_MEMBER", "ORG_BILLING_ADMIN"]
     }'

Example Response

Response Header

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Content-Type: application/json;charset=ISO-8859-1
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
WWW-Authenticate: Digest realm="MMS Public API", domain="", nonce="{nonce}", algorithm=MD5, op="auth", stale=false
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
Connection: keep-alive
HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: application/json
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=300
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
X-MongoDB-Service-Version: gitHash={gitHash}; versionString={ApplicationVersion}

Response Body

Note

The secret is unredacted in the response body. This example is redacted for security purposes.

{
  "createdAt" : "2024-08-02T18:07:25Z",
  "description" : "Service account for users in finance.",
  "clientId" : "mdb_sa_id_66ad205d181fc82b21b336e3",
  "name" : "Billing",
  "roles" : [ "ORG_MEMBER", "ORG_BILLING_ADMIN" ],
  "secrets" : [ {
    "createdAt" : "2024-08-02T18:07:25Z",
    "expiresAt" : "2024-12-30T18:07:24Z",
    "id" : "66ad205d181fc82b21b336e2",
    "secret" : "mdb_sa_sk_***********************************3Yylw"
  } ]
}

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