Dotcom Monitor API Authentication

How to authenticate Dotcom Monitor API requests: one Bearer API key plus a connectionId. MindCloud handles Dotcom Monitor's custom auth scheme for you.

Every Dotcom Monitor API request through MindCloud needs two things: a MindCloud API Key and a connectionId for your Dotcom Monitor account. This page covers both, plus exactly how to send them, so you do not need to visit any other page to get authenticated.

Steps to authenticate

Create a MindCloud account at app.mindcloud.co if you do not already have one.
Generate a MindCloud API Key in API Keys. This is the Bearer token you send on every request. Keep it on your server.
Create a Dotcom Monitor connection in Connections. Dotcom Monitor uses its own authentication scheme. You provide whatever it requires when you create the connection — MindCloud handles the provider-specific details for you.
Copy the connection’s connectionId — you will send it on every request alongside your MindCloud API Key.

How requests are authenticated

Authentication has two layers. Your MindCloud API Key authenticates the request to MindCloud, sent as a Bearer token in the Authorization header. The connectionId selects the connected Dotcom Monitor account that should run the action. MindCloud stores and refreshes the Dotcom Monitor credentials behind that connection, so you never send provider tokens with your requests.

Pass connectionId in the query string for GET and DELETE actions, and in the JSON body for POST, PUT, and PATCH actions.

For example, calling Authenticate with an Dotcom Monitor connection looks like this:

curl --request POST \
  --url "https://connect.mindcloud.co/v2/universal/apps/dotcomMonitor/actions/authenticate/run" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $MINDCLOUD_API_KEY" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{
  "connectionId": "$CONNECTION_ID",
  "arguments": {}
}'

The Authorization: Bearer <your MindCloud API Key> header authenticates you to MindCloud; the connectionId tells MindCloud which Dotcom Monitor account to run the action against. Missing or invalid Authorization returns 401, and a missing or mismatched connectionId returns 400.

How to set up your connection?

You need an active Dotcom-Monitor account with permission to create Monitoring Web API integrations.

Create a Monitoring Web API integration UID
In Dotcom-Monitor, open Manage > Integrations > New Integration > Monitoring Web API, then create the integration and copy the generated Web API Unique Identifier.
Allow API access from MindCloud
Dotcom-Monitor requires Web API access to be available from trusted IPs or to be switched to Any IP mode. Complete that provider-side setting before testing the connection.
Paste the Web API UID into MindCloud
Use the Web API UID as the only credential field for this connection. MindCloud will use it to call POST /login and store the returned session cookies automatically.

Keep your key safe

Keep your MindCloud API Key on your server; do not ship it in browser code, mobile apps, public repositories, or logs. Anyone with the key can call the Universal API as your MindCloud account, across every connection you have created.