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Getting information about a service account

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Yandex Cloud
Updated at May 5, 2025

You can get information about a service account: its name and ID, creation and last authentication dates, and its roles in the folder.

Management console
CLI
API
  1. In the management console, navigate to the folder the service account belongs to.

  2. From the list of services, select Identity and Access Management.

  3. In the left-hand panel, select Service accounts.

  4. In the list that opens, select the service account you need.

  5. The Overview page will list the service account's parameters:

    • ID of the service account as a string in aje9sb6ffd2u******** format.
    • Name.
    • Date created.
    • Date of last authentication.
    • Roles in folder.

If you do not have the Yandex Cloud CLI yet, install and initialize it.

The folder specified when creating the CLI profile is used by default. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can specify a different folder using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

Get a list of service accounts in the default folder:

yc iam service-account list

Result:

+----------------------+--------------+--------+---------------------+-----------------------+
|          ID          |     NAME     | LABELS |     CREATED AT      | LAST AUTHENTICATED AT |
+----------------------+--------------+--------+---------------------+-----------------------+
| ajeg2b2et02f******** | my-robot     |        | 2024-09-08 18:59:45 | 2025-02-18 10:10:00   |
| ajegtlf2q28a******** | account-name |        | 2023-06-27 16:18:18 | 2025-02-18 10:20:00   |
+----------------------+--------------+--------+---------------------+-----------------------+

Get information about a service account using the get command:

yc iam service-account get <service_account_ID>

Result:

id: aje6o61dvog2********
folder_id: jbmsjns93hj8********
created_at: "2024-09-09T20:15:19Z"
name: service-account
last_authenticated_at: "2024-09-19T18:05:06Z"

Where:

  • id: Service account ID.
  • folder_id: Folder ID.
  • created_at: Service account creation date and time.
  • name: service-account: Service account name.
  • last_authenticated_at: Last authentication date and time.
  1. Find out the ID of the folder where the service account was created.

  2. Get information about the service accounts in the folder using the list REST API method for the ServiceAccount resource:

    export FOLDER_ID=b1gvmob95yys********
    export IAM_TOKEN=CggaATEVAgA...
    curl \
      --header "Authorization: Bearer ${IAM_TOKEN}" \
      "https://iam.api.cloud.yandex.net/iam/v1/serviceAccounts?folderId=${FOLDER_ID}"
    

    Result:

    {
     "serviceAccounts": [
      {
       "id": "ajebqtreob2d********",
       "folderId": "b1gvmob95yys********",
       "createdAt": "2018-10-18T13:42:40Z",
       "name": "my-robot",
       "description": "my description"
      }
     ]
    }
    

    You can also get information about the service accounts in the folder using the ServiceAccountService/List gRPC API call.

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