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Pingdom API Authentication

How to authenticate Pingdom API requests: one Bearer API key plus a connectionId. MindCloud stores your Pingdom API key securely — set it once, never resend it.

Every Pingdom API request through MindCloud needs two things: a MindCloud API Key and a connectionId for your Pingdom 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

  1. Create a MindCloud account at app.mindcloud.co if you do not already have one.
  2. Generate a MindCloud API Key in API Keys. This is the Bearer token you send on every request. Keep it on your server.
  3. Create a Pingdom connection in Connections. Pingdom uses an API key. You generate the key in your Pingdom account, then paste it in when you create the connection — MindCloud stores it securely and never returns it in a response.
  4. 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 Pingdom account that should run the action. MindCloud stores and refreshes the Pingdom 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 Get Credits with an Pingdom connection looks like this:

curl --request POST \
  --url "https://connect.mindcloud.co/v2/universal/apps/pingdom/actions/get-credits/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 Pingdom account to run the action against. Missing or invalid Authorization returns 401, and a missing or mismatched connectionId returns 400.

Create a Pingdom API token

You need a Pingdom account. Pingdom only shows a newly generated API token once, so copy it to a secure place when it appears.

  1. Sign in to My PingdomMy Pingdom
  2. Open the API token page

    In the left navigation, go to Integrations and select The Pingdom API.

    My Pingdom → Integrations → The Pingdom API
  3. Generate a new token

    Click Add API token, enter a name, choose Read-Write access, and generate the token.

  4. Copy the token into MindCloud

    Copy the token immediately and paste it into the MindCloud Pingdom connection when prompted.

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.