Personal Access Token (PAT)
Personal Access Tokens, or PATs, are bearer tokens that can be used to authenticate the various Quix APIs, such as the Portal API, Streaming Reader API, and so on.
Creating a PAT
To obtain a PAT, log in to Quix, and click on your profile icon in the top right corner, then click Personal Access Tokens. You can then generate a PAT with a lifetime suitable for your use case.
Alternatively, log in to Quix, and click Settings in the main left-hand navigation. Then, for a specific environment, click APIs and tokens.
In the APIs and tokens dialog, you can click Personal Access Tokens to generate PATs, or a Streaming Token (SDK Token) for use with the Quix Streams client library.
PAT permissions
A PAT can never do more than the user who created it. A token created in the Quix Cloud UI gets the permissions of the user's role assignments at that moment, or of their group's when Inherit from group is on.
See also
- Roles and Permissions - Understanding user roles and permissions
- Streaming Token - SDK tokens for Quix Streams
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