Token Manager

Tokens enhance data security by reducing the exposure of sensitive information. They are unique identifiers that are used for authentication, authorization, session management, or as access keys. A token manager is used to manage these tokens within a system with the following benefits in a monitoring or logging system:

• tokenize sensitive information such as log messages, error traces, and metrics so that it helps protect the privacy and security of users whose data will be captured in the system.
• unauthorized access to sensitive data.
• access control to authorized users to access and view specific data.
• tokenization can be quickly performed where massive amounts of data are generated and processed, without impacting system performance. This allows scaling your observability infrastructure while maintaining data security.

Adding a token

1. Navigate to Synthetic Monitoring on the left pane in the Observability portal.
2. Click the Token manager tab.
3. Click + Add token.
4. In the Add token window fill in the following fields.

Field	Description
Token name	Name for the token.
Grant type	The method or protocol used to obtain an access token from an authorization server. Here client credentials is used.
Access token URL	The endpoint for an authentication server used to exchange the authorization code for an access token.
Client ID	The client identifier issued to the client during the application registration process.
Client secret	The client secret issued to the client during the application registration process.
Scope	Scope of the access request.
Audience	A URI that indicates the target audience/services where you intend to use the token.
Resource	A URI that indicates the resource/target service where you intend to use the token.

5. Click Save.

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You can enter a token in the Search token field and click the Search icon to search for an existing token.

Viewing all tokens

1. Navigate to Synthetic Monitoring on the left pane in the Observability portal.
2. Click the Token manager tab. By default, the All tokens tab is selected.

The following dashboard with all the existing tokens are displayed.

Column Name	Description
Token name	Name for the token.
Endpoint count	The total number of endpoints.
Last modified	The date on which the token was last modified.
Created on	The date on which the token was created.
Action items	Click the edit    or the delete    icon to edit or delete the token. For more information about deleting tokens, see Deleting a token.

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A token is linked to an endpoint. To delete token, either delete the endpoint or edit the token in the endpoint. For more information, see Managing endpoints.

Deleting a token

1. Navigate to Synthetic Monitoring > Token manager.

2. Click the delete    icon next to the token you want to delete. You will see a list of endpoints configured with a token in the Delete token window.

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   If no endpoints are configured, you can click Delete token to delete the token.

3. Click Manage configured endpoints to delete the associated endpoint. You will be taken to the Endpoints dasbhoard under Synthetic monitoring.

4. You can do either of the following:

   4a. Delete an endpoint. For more information, see Managing endpoints section under the Endpoints topic.

   4b. Edit an endpoint and update the token in the endpoint. For more information, see Managing endpoints section under the Endpoints topic.

Viewing mapped tokens

1. Navigate to Synthetic Monitoring > Endpoints.
2. Click the Mapped endpoints tab.
3. Click Mapped tokens. You will see all the endpoints mapped to a token.