---
title: "CreateNewToken adds a token to a service account"
method: POST
path: "/serviceaccounts/{serviceAccountId}/tokens"
tags: ["service_accounts"]
---

# CreateNewToken adds a token to a service account

`POST /serviceaccounts/{serviceAccountId}/tokens`

## Request

- Base URL: `/api` (relative, and the document was published on a file host, not at the API’s origin)
- URL: `/api/serviceaccounts/{serviceAccountId}/tokens`
- 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:id:1` (single service account)

## Path parameters

- `serviceAccountId` integer, required

## Request body

- AddServiceAccountTokenCommand
  - `name` string
  - `secondsToLive` integer

## Response `200`

(empty)

- NewApiKeyResult
  - `id` integer
  - `key` string
  - `name` 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.
- `404`: NotFoundError is returned when the requested resource was not found.
- `409`: ConflictError
- `500`: InternalServerError is a general error indicating something went wrong internally.

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