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How to Update your Create Token Setup

Username and password credentials now go in the JSON body

Written by Alex Burlingame

What's changing

Credentials for the Create Token endpoint must now be passed in the JSON request body instead of as URL query parameters. This improves the security of your setup, since query parameters can be captured in logs or monitoring tools over HTTPS.

Before: credentials as query parameters

Previously, the Create Token endpoint accepted email and password credentials as query parameters:

After: credentials in the JSON body

Moving forward, GenLogs requires credentials to be passed in the JSON body for the Create Token endpoint:

What you need to do

Update any integration that calls Create Token to send email and password in a JSON body with a Content-Type: application/json header, instead of as query parameters.

Make this update by September 30, 2026. After that date, the query parameter method will no longer be supported.

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