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Your Tensor9 API key authenticates your vendor account. Keep it private and do not share your account with another organization.

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Create your account and download your API key

  1. Open sandbox.tensor9.com, sign in with Google and choose Get API key.
  2. Select Copy API key, or Download API key to save it as a private text file.

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Install the tensor9 CLI

Follow Install tensor9 CLI. If you installed it earlier, update it first.

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Export your API key

Then set up your control plane in the same terminal.
  • Keep your key out of shell history: run read -rs T9_API_KEY && export T9_API_KEY instead, then paste the key and press Enter.
  • Get API key is unavailable: confirm that you signed in with Google on sandbox.tensor9.com, then try again.
  • Authentication fails: export the key again, copying all of it. Downloading it again does not renew an expired key.
  • The CLI refuses to combine a key with a profile: run unset T9_PROFILE T9_CONFIG, then retry.
  • Alpha preview environment: sign up at sandbox.alpha.tensor9.com and add -stage alpha to every tensor9 command. Keys and control planes from different environments are not interchangeable.