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Static keys provide a method of authentication in Nebius AI Cloud services from third-party tools and systems. Static keys are useful when you need long-term credentials. The lifetime of a static key is up to three years.

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Use cases

  • Integrate the Monitoring and Logging services with third-party observability tools. You can authorize tools like Grafana® to access Nebius AI Cloud metrics and logs. For example, see How to ingest metrics into Monitoring.
  • Access the Container Registry service from external systems. You can deploy artifacts from Container Registry to external systems that have no access to Nebius AI Cloud.
For security reasons, static keys are available only for these Nebius AI Cloud services.

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Limitations

  • You can only use static keys for service accounts.
  • Each static key is issued for a specific Nebius AI Cloud service and cannot be used for other services.
  • Static key level of access cannot be greater than the level of access of the service account for which it is issued. For example, if the service account is only in a group with the auditor role, the account is not allowed to view the metrics. Therefore, the static key issued for this service account doesn’t let you fetch the metrics from Monitoring.
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