Shine light on your Jira and Confluence APIs
Don’t you want to know what’s hiding under the radar? Replace user passwords with personal access tokens to unveil shadow IT connections into your Atlassian APIs. Diminish the risk of disclosing sensitive information.
API Token Authentication Product Guide
Get Started with API Token Authentication
Install and Manage API Token Authentication
Administrators can adjust the app settings in the corresponding management section.
Create API Tokens
Users can manage their tokens by clicking on the profile icon and selecting the API Token Authentication link.
Sample API calls
Use examples of API calls with authentication tokens in a number of programming languages and using third-party services like Zapier or ServiceNow.
Resolution API Token vs. Atlassian API Token
Feature | Resolution API Token | Atlassian API Token |
|---|---|---|
Read-only and Read-Write Token scopes | Read-Only | |
Easy configuration changes | ||
Restrict API by IP address/ range | ||
Revoke API tokens of other users | Only for DC | |
Create API tokens for other users | ||
Header / Value Restrictions for tokens | ||
Basic and Bearer Authentication | Only Bearer | |
Enforce OpenPGP Encryption | ||
Token permissions granular control | ||
Notification for tokens expiring soon | Only with Script runner | |
Request Rate limit | ||
Expired token automatic deletion | ||
Restrict auth to specific cluster nodes | ||
API tokens browser | ||
Audit Log | Only for DC |
Video Overview
Increase security for REST API data connections for Jira & Confluence with API tokens instead of username & password.
There are multiple scenarios where API Token Authentication provides benefits. Learn here more about the plugin.
In this tutorial, we will show you our API Token Authentication app, which brings the API concept to Jira and Confluence.
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