---
id: "grafana_cloud_token"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["secrets"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 70
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/grafana_cloud_token"
---

# Grafana Cloud access policy token (`grafana_cloud_token`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Token of a Grafana Cloud access policy, used by agents and API clients to send and query telemetry. Grafana documents that these tokens start with glc_; the regexp follows the gitleaks rule for the rest (32 to 400 Base64 characters). Service account tokens of a Grafana instance (glsa_) are grafana_service_account_token.

- Parent datatype: `access_token`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Secrets and credentials (passwords, keys, tokens) (secrets)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^glc_[A-Za-z0-9+/]{32,400}={0,3}$
```

## Examples

- `glc_` (invalid example) — Prefix without the secret

## Supported by tools

- `datadogsds`
- `githubsecretscanning`
- `gitleaks`

## Sources

- doc: <https://grafana.com/docs/learning-paths/connect-agent-to-agent-observability/create-access-policy-and-token/>
- other: <https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks/blob/master/config/gitleaks.toml>

## Quality

Score 70/100. Missing: examples, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/grafana_cloud_token.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/secrets/grafana_cloud_token.yaml>