Manage your vault key

When you open Postman Vault for the first time, Postman generates a vault key that's used to access your Postman Vault later. You can reset your vault key if you lose it, but Postman will permanently delete your vault secrets. Once you save your vault key, you can add vault secrets and add vault secrets for public APIs.

Save your vault key

When Postman generates your vault key, you have the following options for saving your key:

• Save your vault key in a secure location. Each time you sign in to Postman, you'll need to manually enter your vault key, enabling you to access your Postman Vault.
• 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, giving you access to your Postman Vault when you sign in to Postman.

To save your vault key, do the following:

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

   • Select the copy icon to copy your vault key to your clipboard.
   • Select the download icon to download your vault key.

2. 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 save your vault key to your system's password manager.

3. Select Open Vault.

   

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

Reset your vault key

You can reset your vault key if you lose it, but Postman will permanently delete all vault secrets stored in your Postman Vault.

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 in a secure location.

Next steps

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

• 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.