---
title: "Create service account"
method: POST
path: "/serviceaccounts"
tags: ["service_accounts"]
---

# Create service account

`POST /serviceaccounts`

## Request

- Base URL: `/api` (relative, and the document’s source URL is not known)
- URL: `/api/serviceaccounts`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP basic
  - API key in header `Authorization`

Required permissions (See note in the [introduction](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/serviceaccount/#service-account-api) for an explanation):
action: `serviceaccounts:write` scope: `serviceaccounts:*`

Requires basic authentication and that the authenticated user is a Grafana Admin.

## Request body

- CreateServiceAccountForm
  - `isDisabled` boolean
  - `name` string
  - `role` 'None' | 'Viewer' | 'Editor' | 'Admin'

## Response `201`

(empty)

- ServiceAccountDTO: swagger: model
  - `accessControl` object
  - `avatarUrl` string
  - `id` integer
  - `isDisabled` boolean
  - `isExternal` boolean
  - `login` string
  - `name` string
  - `orgId` integer
  - `role` string
  - `tokens` integer
  - `uid` string

## Other responses

- `400`: BadRequestError is returned when the request is invalid and it cannot be processed.
- `401`: UnauthorizedError is returned when the request is not authenticated.
- `403`: ForbiddenError is returned if the user/token has insufficient permissions to access the requested resource.
- `500`: InternalServerError is a general error indicating something went wrong internally.

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/grafana/apis/grafana-http-api.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/grafana/apis/grafana-http-api/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/grafana/apis/grafana-http-api/revisions/df55ba1718ba?raw)