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

# Prefect Cloud API key (`prefect_api_key`)

> **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.

API key of Prefect Cloud, used by workers and the Prefect client. Prefect does not publish the format; the regexp follows the gitleaks rule: pnu_ and 36 letters and digits.

- Parent datatype: `api_key`
- 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`):

```
^pnu_[A-Za-z0-9]{36}$
```

## Examples

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

## Supported by tools

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

## Sources

- doc: <https://www.prefect.io/docs/v3/how-to-guides/cloud/manage-users/api-keys>
- 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/prefect_api_key.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/secrets/prefect_api_key.yaml>