---
title: "Retrieve Service Ping payload"
method: GET
path: "/api/v4/usage_data/service_ping"
tags: ["usage_data"]
---

# Retrieve Service Ping payload

`GET /api/v4/usage_data/service_ping`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://gitlab.com`
- URL: `https://gitlab.com/api/v4/usage_data/service_ping`
- Auth: none declared

Retrieves the Service Ping payload from the application cache as JSON. If no cached payload is available, returns an empty response. Requires a personal access token with the `read_service_ping` scope. Introduced in GitLab 16.9.

## Response `200`

Retrieve Service Ping payload

## Other responses

- `401`: 401 Unauthorized
- `403`: Forbidden
- `404`: Not found

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/gitlab/apis/gitlab-api.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/gitlab/apis/gitlab-api/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/gitlab/apis/gitlab-api/revisions/b234947ef3f2?raw)