API keys

manage api keys to control and secure your application's access to external services, preventing misuse and ensuring authorized connections api keys are normally used to track and control connections and performance of how the system interface is being used; thus, it provides authentication in the calling of a program to another api to confirm a project is authorized for connection the benefit of api keys is that they may prevent abuse or misuse of the apis api keys are an initial step in cloud api security by providing the connecting api with a password like code with a defined set of access rights users with an administrator role, which is the out of the box role granted when the kyndryl bridge applications account is first created, can manage the api keys likewise, other users can also manage api keys if the access policies they are part of have the corresponding permissions accessing the api keys page from the main menu , go to administration → bridge access management → api keys once in the api keys page, you can perform a series of actions to personalize your api keys' needs, including the following viewing a list of api keys by accessing the api keys page, you are presented with a card that displays the total number of api keys available and a list of such keys that you have added to your account creating a new api key select create api key enter the name of the api key and an optional description click create api key copy the api key by selecting the copy icon or download key , and then you can return to the api keys page or close the message window the new api key is created and displayed under the api keys page use the filter and search options to find specific api keys editing an existing api key details select the overflow menu next to the api key that you want to edit select edit key to update the name and the description of the api key regenerating api key select the overflow menu next to the api key that you want to regenerate select regenerate and confirm the action deleting an existing api key select the overflow menu next to the api key that you want to delete select delete confirm the deletion locking and unlocking api keys you can prevent an api key from being deleted or modified by locking it a locked api key is represented by the locked icon you can unlock an api key at any time to update or delete it from your platform to lock or unlock an api key, follow these steps select the overflow menu next to the api key that you want to edit select the lock or unlock option, depending on whether the api key has been locked before confirm the action whenever an api key is locked, the regenerate, edit, and delete actions will not be available