Understand user API tokens
Users create API tokens to authenticate a script and make calls to Atlassian app APIs for access to app data. You need to be able to track the activity of user API tokens in your organization. From one central location, you can monitor API token activity of managed accounts in your organization.
You can see how many active tokens exist, when they were created, when they expire, and the last time the token was used. You can also assess if someone is potentially leaking information if they have access to a token but are no longer part of the project. How to view API token activity
You can take immediate action and revoke one or more tokens from a centralized location. How to revoke user API tokens
Who can do this? |
Difference between API token activity and API tokens
API token activity | API tokens |
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An overview that allows admins to see all the user API tokens in an Atlassian organization. | Users create an API token to authenticate themselves into an organization and to run scripts. Users can can access an organization's appdata with Atlassian’s appAPIs. |
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