Manage Postman Vault integrations

Postman supports several features you can use to manage and update your Postman Vault integrations from the Postman desktop app. You can set the expiration duration for cached secrets, change linked secrets, reauthenticate with your external vaults, and disconnect your integrations. With these features, you can customize settings for retrieving secrets from external vaults, and manage access to Postman Vault integrations.

Set expiration duration for cached secrets

The value of secrets retrieved from external vaults are stored in a local cache for 1 hour by default. When secrets are cleared from the local cache, Postman retrieves your secrets’ values from your external vaults, storing them in a local cache again for the specified duration. You can customize the duration that values are stored in the local cache, and you can manually reset the value stored in the local cache.

You can customize the amount of time secrets’ values are stored in a local cache for. Open your Postman Vault, then click Settings. From the Settings tab, specify the amount of time secrets are valid for (in minutes) next to Secret expiration duration.

You can also manually reset secrets’ values stored in a local cache. This ensures that Postman is using the latest values for your secrets. Open your Postman Vault, click Settings, then click Reset Cache from the Settings tab.

Link a different secret from an external vault

You can link a different secret stored in an external vault you’ve created an integration with. To link a different secret, open your Postman Vault, click Configure vault next to a secret, then click . Enter the required details on the Link secret window, then click Use.

To update the value of a secret stored in an external vault, you must sign in to your external vault provider and update the secret’s value there. You can’t update the value of secrets stored in external vaults directly from Postman.

Reauthenticate with an external vault

You’ll need to reauthenticate with your integrated external vaults each time you open Postman, or when your authentication credentials expire.

To reauthenticate with an external vault, do the following:

1. Open your Postman Vault.

2. In the Value cell with the integration you need to reauthenticate with, click Link Vault.

3. Click Re-authenticate.

   

4. Follow the steps to reauthenticate with 1Password, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, or HashiCorp Vault.

Disconnect an integration

You can disconnect 1Password, AWS Secrets Manager, and Azure Key Vault integrations from your Postman Vault. You must be a Postman Admin or Super Admin to disconnect a HashiCorp Vault integration. When you disconnect an integration, references to the vault secret will be unresolved.

To disconnect an integration, do the following:

1. Open your Postman Vault, then click Settings in the upper right.
2. From the Settings tab, click Disconnect next to the integration you want to disconnect.

If you linked a secret stored in an external vault, you can also click Configure vault in the Value cell, click , then click Disconnect vault.