Delete service account tokens API

Delete service account tokens API

Deletes service account tokens for a service in a specified namespace.

Request

DELETE /_security/service/<namespace>/<service>/credential/token/<token_name>

Prerequisites

  • To use this API, you must have at least the manage_service_account cluster privilege.

Description

The API response indicates whether the specified service account token is found and deleted or it is not found.

Path parameters

namespace

(Required, string) Name of the namespace.

service

(Required, string) Name of the service name.

token_name

(Required, string) Name of the service account token.

Examples

The following request deletes the token1 service account token from the elastic/fleet-server service account:

  1. DELETE /_security/service/elastic/fleet-server/credential/token/token42

If the service account token is successfully deleted, the request returns {"found": true}. Otherwise, the response will have status code 404 and found` will be set to false.

  1. {
  2. "found" : true
  3. }