---
title: OAuth2 tokens and API keys
description: If you have configured the API key in Request Header or in Query String, the PingIntelligence Dashboard reads and converts these values to apikey_qs or apikey_header values in the API Security Enforcer (ASE) API JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).
component: pingintelligence
version: 5.2
page_id: pingintelligence:pingintelligence_integrations:pingintelligence_axway_oauth2_api_keys
canonical_url: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingintelligence/5.2/pingintelligence_integrations/pingintelligence_axway_oauth2_api_keys.html
revdate: April 3, 2024
---

# OAuth2 tokens and API keys

If you have configured the API key in **Request Header** or in **Query String**, the PingIntelligence Dashboard reads and converts these values to `apikey_qs` or `apikey_header` values in the API Security Enforcer (ASE) API JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) *(tooltip: \<div class="paragraph">
\<p>An open, lightweight data-interchange format that uses human-readable text to store and transmit data.\</p>
\</div>)*.

The PingIntelligence artificial intelligence (AI) engine considers API key values only in request headers or the query string.

Similarly, if you have configured an OAuth2 token, the PingIntelligence Dashboard marks the value of `oauth2_access_token` as `true` in the ASE API JSON.

|   |                                                                        |
| - | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
|   | You do not need to configure any tags for API keys or an OAuth2 token. |

The following API JSON file shows the converted parameters. The `protocol`, `url,` and `hostname` values are picked from the values that you configure in **Resource path** when you create the **Frontend API**.

![A screen capture of the Frontend API > Editing API page with a green box around Resource path field.](../_images/eyr1564009221800.png)

```json
{
    "api_metadata": {
         "protocol": "https", "url": "/shop", "hostname": "192.168.11.103", "cookie": "JSESSIONID",
        "cookie_idle_timeout": "",
        "logout_api_enabled": false,
        "cookie_persistence_enabled": false,
        "oauth2_access_token":true, "apikey_qs": "KeyId", "apikey_header": "",
        "enable_blocking": true,
         "login_url": "/shop/login",
        "api_mapping": {
            "internal_url": ""
        },
        "api_pattern_enforcement": {
            "protocol_allowed": "",
            "http_redirect": {
                "response_code": "",
                "response_def": "",
                "https_url": ""
            },
            "methods_allowed": [],
            "content_type_allowed": "",
            "error_code": "",
            "error_def": "",
            "error_message_body": ""
        },
        "flow_control": {
            "client_spike_threshold": "0/second",
            "server_connection_queueing": false
        },
        "api_memory_size": "64mb",
        "health_check": false,
        "health_check_interval": 60,
        "health_retry_count": 4,
        "health_url": "/",
        "server_ssl": false
        "servers": [],
        "decoy_config": {
            "decoy_enabled": false,
            "response_code": 200,
            "response_def": "",
            "response_message": "",
            "decoy_subpaths": []
        }
    }
}
```