Get an ingestion key

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Endpoints and response shapes can change before general availability. API v2 is unchanged.

GET https://app.honeybadger.io/v3/projects/{project_id}/ingestion_keys/{ingestion_key_id}

Required scope projects:read

Returns a single ingestion key.

Example request

curl "https://app.honeybadger.io/v3/projects/$PROJECT_ID/ingestion_keys/$INGESTION_KEY_ID" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HONEYBADGER_API_TOKEN"

Parameters

2

Path parameters

Field	Type	Description
project_id required	string	Project ID.
ingestion_key_id required	string	Key ID.

Responses

1

200 Success

Example payload

{
  "data": {
    "id": "Kp7mZq2x",
    "project_id": "Xk9mZp",
    "key": "hbp_aBcDeFgHiJkLmNoPqRsTuVwXyZ012345aB12Cd",
    "label": "CI",
    "created_at": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  },
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "6f1c2b0e-8d4a-4f6e-9b2a-3c5d7e9f1a2b"
  }
}

Response schema8

Field	Type	Description
data required	object	The key your app uses to send data to Honeybadger, set as ingestion_key in the client's config (api_key in older clients). It can't authenticate to this API; use an API token for that.
data.id required	string	Identifier for this key. Use it in paths.
data.project_id required	string	Identifier of the project the key belongs to.
data.key required	string	The Ingestion Key value a notifier sends. Returned in full: unlike an API Token, it's meant to ship with your application.
data.label required	string | null	Optional human-readable name.
data.created_at required	date-time	When the key was created.
meta	object
meta.request_id	string	Unique identifier for the request, for correlating with support.

Errors

4

401 Unauthorized

The credential is missing, invalid, expired or revoked (unauthorized), or was sent in a way v3 doesn’t accept (see the examples).

Example payload: unauthorized (Missing, malformed, expired or revoked credential)

{
  "error": {
    "code": "unauthorized",
    "message": "Access denied"
  },
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "abc123"
  }
}

Example payload: unsupported_auth_scheme (Sent as HTTP basic, which v3 does not accept)

{
  "error": {
    "code": "unsupported_auth_scheme",
    "message": "Send the credential as `Authorization: Bearer <token>`; v3 does not accept HTTP basic"
  },
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "abc123"
  }
}

Example payload: credential_in_query (Sent as the `auth_token` query parameter)

{
  "error": {
    "code": "credential_in_query",
    "message": "Credentials must be sent in the Authorization header"
  },
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "abc123"
  }
}

Response schema6

Field	Type	Description
error required	object
error.code required	string	Machine-readable code. Branch on this, not the message. Allowed values: unauthorized, unsupported_auth_scheme, credential_in_query, access_denied, insufficient_scope, requires_user_token, project_restricted, account_inactive, account_parked, feature_unavailable, not_found, validation_error, delete_failed, limit_reached, rate_limit_exceeded, concurrent_request, streams_provisioning, ingestion_key_not_accepted, maintenance_mode, invalid_parameter, forbidden_attributes, service_unavailable, ambiguous_account, fault_merged.
error.message required	string	Human-readable explanation.
error.details	array<object> | object	A list of {field, message} on validation_error and invalid_parameter, and on feature_unavailable or limit_reached when one field caused the refusal; {required_scope, token_scopes} on insufficient_scope; {merged_into, location} on fault_merged. Absent when there's nothing to add.
meta	object
meta.request_id	string	Unique identifier for the request, for correlating with support.

403 Forbidden

The credential isn’t allowed to do this. error.code says why. An account or project the credential doesn’t cover is 404 not_found, not 403.

Example payload: access_denied (The credential isn't allowed to do this to this record)

{
  "error": {
    "code": "access_denied",
    "message": "Access denied"
  },
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "abc123"
  }
}

Example payload: insufficient_scope (The credential lacks the permission this endpoint requires)

{
  "error": {
    "code": "insufficient_scope",
    "message": "Insufficient scope",
    "details": {
      "required_scope": "faults:write",
      "token_scopes": [
        "faults:read",
        "insights:read"
      ]
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "abc123"
  }
}

Example payload: requires_user_token (The endpoint records who acted, and an account token has nobody)

{
  "error": {
    "code": "requires_user_token",
    "message": "This endpoint records the person who acted, so it requires a user credential rather than an account token"
  },
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "abc123"
  }
}

Example payload: project_restricted (A project-restricted credential cannot create a project)

{
  "error": {
    "code": "project_restricted",
    "message": "Project-restricted tokens cannot create projects"
  },
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "abc123"
  }
}

Response schema6

Field	Type	Description
error required	object
error.code required	string	Machine-readable code. Branch on this, not the message. Allowed values: unauthorized, unsupported_auth_scheme, credential_in_query, access_denied, insufficient_scope, requires_user_token, project_restricted, account_inactive, account_parked, feature_unavailable, not_found, validation_error, delete_failed, limit_reached, rate_limit_exceeded, concurrent_request, streams_provisioning, ingestion_key_not_accepted, maintenance_mode, invalid_parameter, forbidden_attributes, service_unavailable, ambiguous_account, fault_merged.
error.message required	string	Human-readable explanation.
error.details	array<object> | object	A list of {field, message} on validation_error and invalid_parameter, and on feature_unavailable or limit_reached when one field caused the refusal; {required_scope, token_scopes} on insufficient_scope; {merged_into, location} on fault_merged. Absent when there's nothing to add.
meta	object
meta.request_id	string	Unique identifier for the request, for correlating with support.

404 Not Found

Resource not found

Example payload

{
  "error": {
    "code": "not_found",
    "message": "Resource not found"
  },
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "abc123"
  }
}

Response schema6

Field	Type	Description
error required	object
error.code required	string	Machine-readable code. Branch on this, not the message. Allowed values: unauthorized, unsupported_auth_scheme, credential_in_query, access_denied, insufficient_scope, requires_user_token, project_restricted, account_inactive, account_parked, feature_unavailable, not_found, validation_error, delete_failed, limit_reached, rate_limit_exceeded, concurrent_request, streams_provisioning, ingestion_key_not_accepted, maintenance_mode, invalid_parameter, forbidden_attributes, service_unavailable, ambiguous_account, fault_merged.
error.message required	string	Human-readable explanation.
error.details	array<object> | object	A list of {field, message} on validation_error and invalid_parameter, and on feature_unavailable or limit_reached when one field caused the refusal; {required_scope, token_scopes} on insufficient_scope; {merged_into, location} on fault_merged. Absent when there's nothing to add.
meta	object
meta.request_id	string	Unique identifier for the request, for correlating with support.

422 Unprocessable Content

No path names the account, so the API token has to. This is returned when the token covers more than one account and the account a request applies to cannot be determined. Use a token bound to a single account.

Example payload

{
  "error": {
    "code": "ambiguous_account",
    "message": "This credential covers more than one account, so the account a request applies to is ambiguous. Use a token bound to a single account."
  },
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "abc123"
  }
}

Response schema6

Field	Type	Description
error required	object
error.code required	string	Machine-readable code. Branch on this, not the message. Allowed values: unauthorized, unsupported_auth_scheme, credential_in_query, access_denied, insufficient_scope, requires_user_token, project_restricted, account_inactive, account_parked, feature_unavailable, not_found, validation_error, delete_failed, limit_reached, rate_limit_exceeded, concurrent_request, streams_provisioning, ingestion_key_not_accepted, maintenance_mode, invalid_parameter, forbidden_attributes, service_unavailable, ambiguous_account, fault_merged.
error.message required	string	Human-readable explanation.
error.details	array<object> | object	A list of {field, message} on validation_error and invalid_parameter, and on feature_unavailable or limit_reached when one field caused the refusal; {required_scope, token_scopes} on insufficient_scope; {merged_into, location} on fault_merged. Absent when there's nothing to add.
meta	object
meta.request_id	string	Unique identifier for the request, for correlating with support.