Remote Access & APIs

groundcover has various authentication key types for remotely interacting with our platform, whether to ingest observability data or to automate actions via our APIs:

1. API Keys- An API key in groundcover provides secure, programmatic access to the API on behalf of a service account. It inherits that account’s permissions and should be stored safely. This is also the key you need when working groundcover’s terraform provider. See:

   1. groundcover's APIs documentation.

   2. groundcover's Terraform provider: https://github.com/groundcover-com/terraform-provider-groundcover.

2. Ingestion Keys- Ingestion Keys let sensors, integrations and browsers send observability data to your groundcover backend. These keys are the counterpart of API Keys, which are optimized for reading data or automating dashboards and monitors.

3. Datasources (ds) API Key- A key used to connect to groundcover as a datasource, querying Clickhouse and VictoriaMetrics directly.

4. Grafana Service Account Token- Used to remotely configure create Grafana Alerts & Dashboards via Terraform.