---
title: "Create Database Connection"
method: POST
path: "/lib/database-connections"
tags: ["database-connections"]
---

# Create Database Connection

`POST /lib/database-connections`

Create a new Database Connection.

## Request body

- DatabaseConnectionConfig
  - `authType` string, required
  - `configObj` string
  - `connectionString` string
  - `connectionTimeout` number
  - `credsSecrets` string
  - `databaseType` 'mysql' | 'oracle' | 'postgres' | 'sqlserver', required
  - `description` string, required
  - `id` string, required
  - `password` string
  - `requestTimeout` number
  - `tags` string
  - `textSecret` string
  - `user` string

## Response `200`

a list of DatabaseConnectionConfig objects

- CountedDatabaseConnectionConfig
  - `count` integer — number of items present in the items array
  - `items` DatabaseConnectionConfig[]
    - `authType` string, required
    - `configObj` string
    - `connectionString` string
    - `connectionTimeout` number
    - `credsSecrets` string
    - `databaseType` 'mysql' | 'oracle' | 'postgres' | 'sqlserver', required
    - `description` string, required
    - `id` string, required
    - `password` string
    - `requestTimeout` number
    - `tags` string
    - `textSecret` string
    - `user` string

## Other responses

- `401` — Unauthorized
- `500` — Unexpected error

## Changes

- **2026-03-06** `11df16b26c1d` — 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/criblio/apis/cribl-api-reference/changes/lib/database-connections/post.md)

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