Exceptionless API Authentication
How to authenticate Exceptionless API requests: one Bearer API key plus a connectionId. MindCloud stores your API key securely — set it once, never resend it.
Every Exceptionless API request through MindCloud needs two things: a MindCloud API Key and a connectionId for your Exceptionless 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 Exceptionless connection in Connections. Exceptionless uses an API key. You generate the key in your Exceptionless account, then paste it in when you create the connection — MindCloud stores it securely and never returns it in a response.
- 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 Exceptionless account that should run the action. MindCloud stores and refreshes the Exceptionless 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 with an Exceptionless connection looks like this:
The Authorization: Bearer <your MindCloud API Key> header authenticates you to MindCloud; the connectionId tells MindCloud which Exceptionless account to run the action against. Missing or invalid Authorization returns 401, and a missing or mismatched connectionId returns 400.
Create an Exceptionless access token
Decide whether you need a project token or a user-scoped token. Project tokens only support project configuration and event submission. User-scoped tokens are required for management reads and writes such as listing events, stacks, projects, tokens, and webhooks.
- Open the Exceptionless dashboard
Sign in to the Exceptionless dashboard for the tenant you want to connect.
- Choose the correct token type
Use a project token if you only need project configuration and event submission. Use a user-scoped token if you need management endpoints such as events, stacks, tokens, projects, organizations, or webhooks.
- Copy the access token
Create or retrieve the Exceptionless access token you want MindCloud to use, then copy the token value.
- Enter the token in MindCloud
Paste the token into the API Key field when creating the connection in MindCloud.
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.