> ## Documentation Index
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# Create a new API key.

> Create a new API key for the authenticated user. Requires a unique name per user per organization. The full composite API key (key_id.secret) is returned once in the response and cannot be retrieved again. Enforces MAX_ACCESS_KEYS_PER_USER limit (default 5, new table only).




## OpenAPI

````yaml POST /v3/user-access-keys
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Fiddler API - 2.0
  description: APIs to interact with Fiddler
  termsOfService: https://fiddler.ai/about/terms
  contact:
    email: support@fiddler.ai
  license:
    name: Proprietary
    url: '2.0'
  version: '2.0'
servers: []
security:
  - BearerAuth: []
tags:
  - name: access-key
    description: CRUD operations for API keys
  - name: span-v3
  - name: aggregation-invalidation-request-v3
    description: Endpoints related to retrieving aggregation invalidation requests
  - name: alert-rules-v3
    description: CRUD for Alert Rules, Summary, and Stats APIs
  - name: application-v3
  - name: attribute-v3
  - name: auth
    description: Authentication strategies and login flows
  - name: baseline-v3
    description: CRUD for baseline
  - name: catalog-v3
    description: >-
      Entity catalog provides paginated, searchable discovery of entity names
      (attribute keys, agent names, span types, span names) and their distinct
      values. Powered by ClickHouse materialized views — no worker or PostgreSQL
      dependency.
  - name: chart-annotation-v3
    description: Endpoints related to retrieving chart annotations
  - name: chart-v3
    description: CRUD for chart
  - name: queries-v3
    description: v3 queries API
  - name: configuration-v3
    description: CRUD for configurations
  - name: custom-metrics-v3
  - name: dimensionality-reduction-v3
  - name: environment-v3
    description: Endpoints related to environment management
  - name: evals
  - name: datasets
  - name: evaluation-v3
  - name: evaluator-v3
  - name: rule-evaluators-v3
  - name: experiment-v3
  - name: explainability-v3
  - name: llm_rca-v3
  - name: file-upload
    description: Endpoints related to file uploading.
  - name: fql-expressions-v3
    description: >
      Endpoints for listing FQL (Fiddler Query Language) functions available for
      GenAI custom metrics. Used by the frontend for autocomplete and signature
      hints in the FQL editor.
  - name: genai-alert-rules-v3
    description: CRUD API for GenAI Alert Rules
  - name: genai-custom-metrics-v3
    description: API for GenAI Custom Metrics
  - name: genai-metrics-v3
    description: >-
      Endpoints for pre-aggregated GenAI metrics. All metric data is
      pre-aggregated by an hourly ClickHouse refreshable materialized view; no
      real-time aggregation is performed at request time.
  - name: guardrails-api
    description: Endpoints related to retrieving Guardrails specific data
  - name: ingestion-v3
  - name: intercom-api
    description: Endpoints related to intercom APIs
  - name: jobs-v3
  - name: llm-gateway-v3
  - name: auth-login
  - name: auth-logout
  - name: metrics-v3
    description: Metrics endpoints
  - name: model-v3
  - name: dashboard-v3
  - name: model-deployment-v3
  - name: monitoring-summary-v3
  - name: histograms-v3
  - name: organization-roles-v3
    description: Update user org role
  - name: organization-settings-v3
    description: Update organization settings such as timezone, email configuration, etc.
  - name: pagerduty-api
    description: CRUD for Pagerduty services.
  - name: project-v3
  - name: project-roles-v3
    description: Project role assignment management
  - name: searchable-text-key-v3
    description: >-
      Manage the global searchable text keys table that controls which OTel
      attribute keys are routed to the full-text-searchable `ValueContent`
      column in the unified attributes table. Changes propagate to the backing
      ClickHouse dictionary within 1-2 minutes and affect all tenants.
  - name: segments-v3
  - name: semantic-mapping-v3
    description: >-
      Manage the global semantic name mappings table that maps raw OTel
      attribute keys to canonical semantic concepts. Changes propagate to the
      backing ClickHouse dictionary within 1-2 minutes and affect all tenants.
  - name: server-info-v3
    description: Endpoints related to retrieving server information
  - name: sessions-v3
    description: v3 session APIs
  - name: team-roles-v3
  - name: team-v3
  - name: traces-v3
    description: v3 trace api for monitoring
  - name: fetch-sessions-v3
    description: v3 fetch sessions api for monitoring
  - name: user-access-key
    description: >
      CRUD operations for user API keys. All endpoints are user-scoped — each
      user can only operate on their own API keys. No one including Org admins
      have access to other users' API keys.
  - name: users-v3
  - name: version-compatibility-v3
  - name: webhooks
externalDocs:
  url: https://docs.fiddler.ai
  description: Find out more about Fiddler
paths:
  /v3/user-access-keys:
    post:
      tags:
        - user-access-key
      summary: Create a new API key.
      description: >
        Create a new API key for the authenticated user. Requires a unique name
        per user per organization. The full composite API key (key_id.secret) is
        returned once in the response and cannot be retrieved again. Enforces
        MAX_ACCESS_KEYS_PER_USER limit (default 5, new table only).
      operationId: createUserAccessKey
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/UserAccessKeyCreateRequestBody'
      responses:
        '201':
          description: >
            API key created successfully. The token field contains the full
            composite key_id.secret — this is the only time the secret is
            available.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                allOf:
                  - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiResponse'
                  - type: object
                    properties:
                      data:
                        $ref: '#/components/schemas/UserAccessKeyTokenResponseBody'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/400'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/401'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/403'
        '409':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/409'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/500'
components:
  schemas:
    UserAccessKeyCreateRequestBody:
      type: object
      required:
        - name
      properties:
        name:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/UserAccessKeyName'
        expires_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: >
            Expiration timestamp for the API key. Must be a future timestamp and
            cannot exceed 100 years from now. If not provided, defaults to 10
            years from creation time.
    ApiResponse:
      type: object
      description: |
        Response object for standard API responses.
      properties:
        api_version:
          type: string
          default: '3.0'
          enum:
            - '2.0'
            - '3.0'
          description: |
            API version.
        kind:
          type: string
          default: NORMAL
          enum:
            - NORMAL
          description: |
            Type of response, indicating a normal response.
    UserAccessKeyTokenResponseBody:
      description: >
        Response body for API key creation. Includes the full composite token
        which is shown only once.
      allOf:
        - $ref: '#/components/schemas/UserAccessKeySingleResponseBody'
        - type: object
          required:
            - token
          properties:
            token:
              type: string
              description: >
                Full composite API key (key_id.secret). Shown once at creation —
                cannot be retrieved again. Store securely.
              example: fkh_EXMPL001.EXAMPLE_SECRET_DO_NOT_USE_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    UserAccessKeyName:
      type: string
      description: >
        User-assigned label for the API key. Must be unique per user per
        organization. Must start with a letter (A-Z or a-z). After that,
        letters, digits, spaces, hyphens, and underscores are allowed. Leading
        and trailing whitespace is stripped by the server before saving.
      maxLength: 128
      minLength: 1
      pattern: ^[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_ -]*$
    UserAccessKeySingleResponseBody:
      type: object
      description: |
        API key metadata. Never includes secrets or hashes.
      required:
        - key_id
        - name
        - key_suffix
        - created_at
        - updated_at
        - expires_at
        - user
        - organization
      properties:
        key_id:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/UserAccessKeyId'
        name:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/UserAccessKeyName'
        key_suffix:
          type: string
          description: |
            Last 6 characters of the secret, for UI display (e.g. "abc123").
          minLength: 6
          maxLength: 6
          example: abc123
        created_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: Timestamp when the API key was created.
        updated_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: Timestamp when the API key was last updated.
        expires_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: Expiration timestamp for the API key.
        last_used_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: >
            Timestamp when the API key was last used for authentication, or null
            if never used. Reserved for future use — always null in Phase 1.
          nullable: true
        user:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/UserCompact'
        organization:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/OrganizationCompact'
    ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      description: |
        Response object for errors returned by the API.
      properties:
        api_version:
          type: string
          default: '3.0'
          enum:
            - '2.0'
            - '3.0'
          description: |
            API version of the response.
        kind:
          type: string
          default: ERROR
          enum:
            - ERROR
          description: |
            Type of response, usually indicating an error.
        error:
          type: object
          properties:
            code:
              type: integer
              format: int32
              description: >
                Represents the code for this error, typically an HTTP response
                code.
              default: 400
              enum:
                - 400
                - 403
                - 404
                - 500
            message:
              type: string
              description: >
                A human-readable message providing more details about the error.
                If there are multiple errors, it will be the message for the
                first error.
              example: Resource Not Found
            errors:
              type: array
              description: >
                Container for additional information regarding the error,
                especially for multiple errors.
              items:
                type: object
                properties:
                  reason:
                    type: string
                    description: >
                      Unique identifier for this error, different from the error
                      code.
                    example: ResourceNotFoundException
                  message:
                    type: string
                    description: >
                      A human-readable message providing more details about the
                      error. If there is only one error, this field will match
                      error.message.
                    example: Resource Not Found
                  help:
                    type: string
                    description: >
                      Link to support or documentation providing more
                      information on the error.
    UserAccessKeyId:
      type: string
      description: >
        Public API key identifier (e.g. fkh_a1b2c3D4). Composed of the prefix
        (e.g. "fkh_") followed by a base64url-encoded random suffix containing
        uppercase and lowercase letters, digits, hyphens, and underscores. Used
        for lookups, deletion, and updates.
      maxLength: 16
      minLength: 12
      pattern: ^[a-z0-9]+_[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$
    UserCompact:
      type: object
      title: UserCompactV3
      description: >
        Compact version of a user which can be included in the response of
        relevant APIs.
      required:
        - id
        - email
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          format: uuid
          readOnly: true
          description: |
            Unique identifier for the user.
        full_name:
          type: string
          readOnly: true
          description: |
            Full name of the user.
        email:
          type: string
          format: email
          description: |
            Email address of the user.
    OrganizationCompact:
      type: object
      title: OrganizationCompact
      description: >
        Compact version of an organization which can be included in the response
        of relevant APIs.
      required:
        - id
        - name
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          format: uuid
          description: |
            Unique identifier of the organization.
        name:
          type: string
          description: |
            Name of the organization.
  responses:
    '400':
      description: Bad Request
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
    '401':
      description: Unauthorized
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
    '403':
      description: Forbidden
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
    '409':
      description: Conflict
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
    '500':
      description: Internal Server Error
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
  securitySchemes:
    BearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer

````