Services

Get a Service

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Get a Service using ID or name.

get/{workspace}/services/{ServiceIdOrName}

Request

  • Base URL: http://localhost:8001
  • URL: http://localhost:8001/{workspace}/services/{ServiceIdOrName}
  • Auth: API key in header Kong-Admin-Token

Path parameters

workspacestring required
Example:team-payments

The name of the workspace

Response

Successfully fetched Service

ca_certificatesstring[] nullable

Array of CA Certificate object UUIDs that are used to build the trust store while verifying upstream server's TLS certificate. If set to null when Nginx default is respected. If default CA list in Nginx are not specified and TLS verification is enabled, then handshake with upstream server will always fail (because no CA are trusted).

connect_timeoutinteger nullable

The timeout in milliseconds for establishing a connection to the upstream server.

created_atinteger nullable

Unix epoch when the resource was created.

enabledboolean nullable

Whether the Service is active. If set to false, the proxy behavior will be as if any routes attached to it do not exist (404). Default: true.

hoststring required

The host of the upstream server. Note that the host value is case sensitive.

idstring nullable

A string representing a UUID (universally unique identifier).

namestring nullable

The Service name.

pathstring nullable

The path to be used in requests to the upstream server.

portinteger nullable

The upstream server port.

protocol'grpc' | 'grpcs' | 'http' | 'https' | 'tcp' | 'tls' | 'tls_passthrough' | 'udp' | 'ws' | 'wss' nullable

The protocol used to communicate with the upstream.

read_timeoutinteger nullable

The timeout in milliseconds between two successive read operations for transmitting a request to the upstream server.

retriesinteger nullable

The number of retries to execute upon failure to proxy.

tagsstring[] nullable

An optional set of strings associated with the Service for grouping and filtering.

tls_verifyboolean nullable

Whether to enable verification of upstream server TLS certificate. If set to null, then the Nginx default is respected.

tls_verify_depthinteger nullable

Maximum depth of chain while verifying Upstream server's TLS certificate. If set to null, then the Nginx default is respected.

updated_atinteger nullable

Unix epoch when the resource was last updated.

urlstring nullable

Helper field to set protocol, host, port and path using a URL. This field is write-only and is not returned in responses.

write_timeoutinteger nullable

The timeout in milliseconds between two successive write operations for transmitting a request to the upstream server.

Example response

{
  "host": "example.internal",
  "id": "49fd316e-c457-481c-9fc7-8079153e4f3c",
  "name": "example-service",
  "path": "/",
  "port": 80,
  "protocol": "http"
}

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