[role="xpack"]
[[security-api-get-api-key]]
=== Get API key information API
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<titleabbrev>Get API key information</titleabbrev>
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Retrieves information for one or more API keys.

[[security-api-get-api-key-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`GET /_security/api_key`

[[security-api-get-api-key-prereqs]]
==== {api-prereq-title}

* To use this API, you must have at least the `manage_api_key` cluster privilege.

[[security-api-get-api-key-desc]]
==== {api-description-title}

The information for the API keys created by
<<security-api-create-api-key,create API Key>> can be retrieved using this API.

[[security-api-get-api-key-path-params]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

The following parameters can be specified in the query parameters of a GET request and
pertain to retrieving api keys:

`id`::
(Optional, string) An API key id. This parameter cannot be used with any of
`name`, `realm_name` or `username` are used.

`name`::
(Optional, string) An API key name. This parameter cannot be used with any of
`id`, `realm_name` or `username` are used. It supports prefix search with wildcard.

`realm_name`::
(Optional, string) The name of an authentication realm. This parameter cannot be
used with either `id` or `name` or when `owner` flag is set to `true`.

`username`::
(Optional, string) The username of a user. This parameter cannot be used with
either `id` or `name` or when `owner` flag is set to `true`.

`owner`::
(Optional, boolean) A boolean flag that can be used to query API keys owned
by the currently authenticated user. Defaults to false.
The 'realm_name' or 'username' parameters cannot be specified when this
parameter is set to 'true' as they are assumed to be the currently authenticated ones.

NOTE: When none of the parameters "id", "name", "username" and "realm_name"
are specified, and the "owner" is set to false then it will retrieve all API
keys if the user is authorized. If the user is not authorized to retrieve other user's
API keys, then an error will be returned.

[[security-api-get-api-key-example]]
==== {api-examples-title}

If you create an API key as follows:

[source,console]
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POST /_security/api_key
{
  "name": "my-api-key",
  "role_descriptors": {}
}
------------------------------------------------------------

A successful call returns a JSON structure that provides
API key information. For example:

[source,console-result]
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{
  "id":"VuaCfGcBCdbkQm-e5aOx",
  "name":"my-api-key",
  "api_key":"ui2lp2axTNmsyakw9tvNnw"
}
--------------------------------------------------
// TESTRESPONSE[s/VuaCfGcBCdbkQm-e5aOx/$body.id/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/ui2lp2axTNmsyakw9tvNnw/$body.api_key/]

You can use the following example to retrieve the API key by ID:

[source,console]
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GET /_security/api_key?id=VuaCfGcBCdbkQm-e5aOx
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// TEST[s/VuaCfGcBCdbkQm-e5aOx/$body.id/]
// TEST[continued]

You can use the following example to retrieve the API key by name:

[source,console]
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GET /_security/api_key?name=my-api-key
--------------------------------------------------
// TEST[continued]

API key name supports prefix search by using wildcard:

[source,console]
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GET /_security/api_key?name=my-*
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// TEST[continued]

The following example retrieves all API keys for the `native1` realm:

[source,console]
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GET /_security/api_key?realm_name=native1
--------------------------------------------------
// TEST[continued]

The following example retrieves all API keys for the user `myuser` in all realms:

[source,console]
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GET /_security/api_key?username=myuser
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// TEST[continued]

The following example retrieves all API keys owned by the currently authenticated user:

[source,console]
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GET /_security/api_key?owner=true
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// TEST[continued]

The following example retrieves all API keys if the user is authorized to do so:
[source,console]
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GET /_security/api_key
--------------------------------------------------
// TEST[continued]

Following creates an API key

[source,console]
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POST /_security/api_key
{
  "name": "my-api-key-1"
}
------------------------------------------------------------

The following example retrieves the API key identified by the specified `id` if
it is owned by the currently authenticated user:

[source,console]
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GET /_security/api_key?id=VuaCfGcBCdbkQm-e5aOx&owner=true
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// TEST[s/VuaCfGcBCdbkQm-e5aOx/$body.id/]
// TEST[continued]

Finally, the following example retrieves all API keys for the user `myuser` in
 the `native1` realm immediately:

[source,console]
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GET /_security/api_key?username=myuser&realm_name=native1
--------------------------------------------------
// TEST[continued]

A successful call returns a JSON structure that contains the information of one or more API keys that were retrieved.

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "api_keys": [ <1>
    {
      "id": "dGhpcyBpcyBub3QgYSByZWFsIHRva2VuIGJ1dCBpdCBpcyBvbmx5IHRlc3QgZGF0YS4gZG8gbm90IHRyeSB0byByZWFkIHRva2VuIQ==", <2>
      "name": "hadoop_myuser_key", <3>
      "creation": 1548550550158, <4>
      "expiration": 1548551550158, <5>
      "invalidated": false, <6>
      "username": "myuser", <7>
      "realm": "native1" <8>
    },
    {
      "id": "api-key-id-2",
      "name": "api-key-name-2",
      "creation": 1548550550158,
      "invalidated": false,
      "username": "user-y",
      "realm": "realm-2"
    }
  ]
}
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// NOTCONSOLE

<1> The list of API keys that were retrieved for this request.
<2> Id for the API key
<3> Name of the API key
<4> Creation time for the API key in milliseconds
<5> Optional expiration time for the API key in milliseconds
<6> Invalidation status for the API key. If the key has been invalidated, it has
a value of `true`. Otherwise, it is `false`.
<7> Principal for which this API key was created
<8> Realm name of the principal for which this API key was created