---
title: "Retrieve the Public Certificate"
method: GET
path: "/v2/databases/{database_cluster_uuid}/ca"
tags: ["DigitalOcean-public.v2-new_Databases"]
---

# Retrieve the Public Certificate

`GET /v2/databases/{database_cluster_uuid}/ca`

To retrieve the public certificate used to secure the connection to the database cluster send a GET request to
`/v2/databases/$DATABASE_ID/ca`.

The response will be a JSON object with a `ca` key. This will be set to an object
containing the base64 encoding of the public key certificate.

## Path parameters

- `database_cluster_uuid` string, uuid, required

## Response `200`

A JSON object with a key of `ca`.

- object
  - `ca` Ca, required
    - `certificate` string, required — base64 encoding of the certificate used to secure database connections

## Other responses

- `401` — Authentication failed due to invalid credentials.
- `404` — The resource was not found.
- `429` — The API rate limit has been exceeded.
- `500` — There was a server error.
- `default` — There was an unexpected error.

## Changes

- **2025-10-16** `cb3bf9b21459` — 2 info
  - api tag `DigitalOcean-public.v2-new_Databases` added
  - api tag `Databases` removed
- **2025-07-18** `f8e8c290636c` — 1 info
  - endpoint added
- **2025-07-17** `5fc9af728e82` — 1 breaking
  - api path removed without deprecation
- **2025-07-17** `f8e8c290636c` — 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/digitalocean/apis/digitalocean-api/changes/v2/databases/:database_cluster_uuid/ca/get.md)

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