# Read a service account

GET

/v1/service-accounts/{serviceAccountId}

```sh
curl --request GET \
  --url https://example.com/v1/service-accounts/example \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'
```

Unregistered ones too. Tenant admins only.

## Authorizations

- **[bearerAuth](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.1.9/reference/api.md#bearerauth)**

## Parameters

### Path Parameters

**serviceAccountId**

required

string

The service account id.

## Responses

### 200

The service account.

application/json

A named, non-human principal (`service_account:<id>`) for an app, a pipeline or a schedule. It acts through API keys minted for it.

object

**serviceAccountId**

required

string

**name**

required

Unique among the tenant’s active accounts.

string

**description**

string

**grants**

required

Array

One of: discriminator: kind

- **object**

  Tenant admin.

  object

  **kind**

  required

  string

  Allowed values: tenant-admin

- **object**

  Tenant member: read the tenant’s settings (providers, policies, adapters, signing keys, deployments), not its projects. A service account has it only when granted; a person has it from being added.

  object

  **kind**

  required

  string

  Allowed values: tenant-member

- **object**

  A role on one project; it replaces the account’s role there.

  object

  **kind**

  required

  string

  Allowed values: project

  **projectId**

  required

  string format: uuid

  **role**

  required

  Role on a project, as read. `member` is only read, on a role given before it was retired: it grants what `viewer` does, and writes refuse it.

  string

  Allowed values: viewer editor owner admin member

**createdBy**

Who created it: `user:<id>` or `service_account:<id>`.

string

**createdAt**

required

string format: date-time

**unregisteredAt**

Set once unregistered: it has no grants, and its keys no longer work.

string format: date-time

##### Example

```json
{
  "grants": [
    {
      "kind": "tenant-admin"
    }
  ]
}
```

### 401

Missing / malformed / expired / revoked bearer token.

application/json

object

**error**

required

object

**code**

required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §4.3).

string

**message**

required

string

**details**

Optional, kind-specific.

object

**_key_**

additional properties

any

**requestId**

required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via `X-Request-Id` header.

string

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}
```

### 403

Not a tenant admin.

application/json

object

**error**

required

object

**code**

required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §4.3).

string

**message**

required

string

**details**

Optional, kind-specific.

object

**_key_**

additional properties

any

**requestId**

required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via `X-Request-Id` header.

string

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}
```

### 404

No such service account (`service-account-not-found`).

application/json

object

**error**

required

object

**code**

required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §4.3).

string

**message**

required

string

**details**

Optional, kind-specific.

object

**_key_**

additional properties

any

**requestId**

required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via `X-Request-Id` header.

string

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}
```

## See also

- [`POST /v1/service-accounts/{serviceAccountId}/grant`: Grant a service account](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.1.9/reference/api/operations/serviceaccountsgrant.md)
- [`POST /v1/service-accounts/{serviceAccountId}/ungrant`: Remove a grant from a service account](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.1.9/reference/api/operations/serviceaccountsungrant.md)
- [`POST /v1/service-accounts/{serviceAccountId}/unregister`: Unregister a service account](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.1.9/reference/api/operations/serviceaccountsunregister.md)
- [Error code `service-account-not-found`](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.1.9/reference/errors.md#service-account-not-found)
- [Every error code](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.1.9/reference/errors.md)