REST API Explorer / task
Investigate inbound REST API rate limit violations
Investigate rate limit violations to determine which rate limit rules are being exceeded and which users are exceeding those rate limits.
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Authentication / task
Activate REST API Auth Scope
You can activate the REST API Auth Scope plugin (com.glide.rest.auth.scope) to link the OAuth entity with authentication scopes.
ERP Integration Framework / concept
Obtaining data from Workday using REST APIs
Access data from Workday using REST APIs.
REST API Explorer / task
Add a path-based ACL for a scripted REST API
Path-based Access Control Levels (ACLs) enable you to define access control rules for scripted REST API endpoints using their resource path. This can be done independently of the ACL references on the operation record.
Security Incident Response / task
Set up the REST API
You use the LogRhythm REST API key to gather additional event details for individual alarm fields. The API key provides details that are unavailable using the LogRhythm REST API.
REST API Explorer / reference
Scripted REST API example - streaming file attachments
This example demonstrates how to send an image attachment to a requesting user as a binary stream.
REST API Explorer / concept
Inbound REST API rate limiting
To prevent excessive inbound REST API requests, set rules that limit the number of inbound REST API requests processed per hour. You can create rules to limit requests for specific users, users with specific roles, or all users.
REST API Explorer / task
Create an inbound REST API rate limit
Create rate limit rules to limit the number of inbound REST API requests processed per hour.
Authentication / task
Create REST API access policy
Create an API access policy and map an authentication profile to restrict the authentication type for a REST API. For example, you can create an API access policy that allows only ID token authentication for a REST API.
DevOps Change Velocity / concept
Configuring change control using the Azure Invoke REST API
You can use the Azure Invoke REST API in your YAML or Classic Azure pipeline to configure change control for DevOps.
Developer Guides / reference
Interact with the public REST API on a ServiceNow instance
The Mobile SDK provides functionality that enables Android applications to call the public REST API on a ServiceNow instance.
Intelligent experiences / task
Increase maximum inbound content length for scripted REST APIs
Increase the maximum allowed inbound content length for scripted REST APIs when automated agentic evaluation runs fail due to inbound payload size limitations.
Authentication / task
Activate REST API access policy
You can activate the REST API Access Policy plugin (com.glide.rest.policy) if you have the admin role.
Financial services operations / concept
Working with ServiceNow REST APIs
Financial Services Operations (FSO) leverages the REST Table API to enable external sources, such as bank applications, to interact with the FSO data stored on a ServiceNow instance.
Telecommunications Service Operations Management / reference
Retrieve data from Nokia Altiplano via REST API
Examples of Retrieving Data from Nokia Altiplano via REST API.
Virtual Agent / task
Create and configure a scripted REST API for your custom chat integration
Create a scripted REST API, add a scripted REST resource, set security and content negotiation, and set REST API rate limits.
Usage Insights / task
Preparing for the Usage Insights data export via REST API
Submit an export request to the Usage Insights data export API to extract usage data asynchronously and consume results from a Kafka topic.
Order management / reference
Sales Customer Relationship Management REST APIs
Sales Customer Relationship Management (Sales CRM) APIs provide endpoints to create and manage Sales CRM entities such as pricing, leads, quotes, and orders from external systems.
REST API Explorer / concept
Scripted REST APIs good practices
Follow these guidelines when designing and implementing scripted REST APIs.
Instance Security Hardening Settings / reference
Require authorization for data broker rest API \[Updated in Security Center 1.3\]
Use the glide.basicauth.required.databrokerrestapiprocessor property to require basic authorization for all inbound Data Broker Rest API requests.
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