Manage your vault key

Postman generates a vault key when you open your Postman Vault for the first time. Your vault key is used to open your Postman Vault when you sign in to Postman. Save or download your vault key to a secure location, then you can choose to store your vault key in your system's password manager. Your vault key isn't synced to the Postman cloud. You can reset your vault key if you lose it.

Once you save your vault key, you can add vault secrets and add vault secrets for public APIs.

Vault secrets are deleted from your Postman Vault after signing out of Postman. Your vault secrets can't be recovered with your vault key. When you sign in to Postman and open your Postman Vault, you can add vault secrets back to your Postman Vault.

Save your vault key

When Postman generates your vault key, save or download your vault key to a secure location. Postman can store your vault key in your system's password manager, such as Keychain Access on macOS. This enables Postman to automatically get your vault key and open your Postman Vault when you sign in to Postman.

If you choose not to store your vault key in your system's password manager, you must manually enter your vault key each time you sign in to Postman.

Your vault key isn't synced to the Postman cloud.

To save your vault key, do the following:

1. When you open your Postman Vault for the first time, save or download your vault key to a secure location. You can do the following to save your vault key:

   • Select Copy Vault key to copy your vault key to your clipboard.
   • Select Download Vault key to download your vault key.

2. By default, Postman will store your vault key to your system's password manager. If you don't want to store your vault key in your system's password manager, clear the checkbox next to Save this key to native password manager.

   If you're using the Postman web app, you must use the Postman Desktop Agent to do the following:

   • Save your vault key to your system's password manager.
   • Get your vault key automatically and open your Postman Vault when you sign in to Postman.

3. Select Open Vault.

   

If your Postman Vault is open, you can select Settings to copy or download your vault key from the Settings tab.

Reset your vault key

You can reset your vault key if you lose it.

1. Sign out and sign in to Postman, then open your Postman Vault.

2. Select Reset vault.

   

3. To delete your vault secrets and generate a new vault key, select Reset Vault.

4. Save your vault key.

Next steps

After learning how to save your vault key, you can learn how to add and manage vault secrets:

• To learn how to open your Postman Vault after saving your vault key, see Access your Postman Vault.
• To learn how to add vault secrets and use them in your local instance of Postman, see Create and manage vault secrets.
• To learn how to add vault secrets for public APIs and use them in your local instance of Postman, see Create and manage vault secrets using Guided Auth.