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Authenticate to Health endpoint via Headers

  • March 10, 2026
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AndreKemmeren
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We are looking into a way to add some monitoring to our Thinkwise environment, currently we check the public Health endpoint but this lacks some information we would like to have alerting on.

 

Is there a way to authenticate via headers for the endpoint?

Best answer by Edo Spijker

Hello André,

Yes this is possible, you even have two possibilities.

You can add the header “Authorization”
The value can be one of two types, Basic or Bearer.

Basic is username password like this:
 Basic base64("<username>:<password>")

Which would become this for example:
 Basic base64(edo:password)

Which once you encode the value becomes this as the value of the Authorization header:
 Basic RWRvOkh1bnRlcjI=

The Bearer type is this:
Bearer <bearer_token>

That token is the token you can get via an oauth login processaction.
it can also be a PAT (Personal Acess Token).

With kind regards,
Edo Spijker

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  • March 11, 2026

Hello André,

Yes this is possible, you even have two possibilities.

You can add the header “Authorization”
The value can be one of two types, Basic or Bearer.

Basic is username password like this:
 Basic base64("<username>:<password>")

Which would become this for example:
 Basic base64(edo:password)

Which once you encode the value becomes this as the value of the Authorization header:
 Basic RWRvOkh1bnRlcjI=

The Bearer type is this:
Bearer <bearer_token>

That token is the token you can get via an oauth login processaction.
it can also be a PAT (Personal Acess Token).

With kind regards,
Edo Spijker


AndreKemmeren
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The Basic makes sense, I do not know what permissions I would have to give an account for the PAT.

 

Does it need any kind of access to all relevant applications to get the health status?