External vault integration

Enterprise and uses: Insomnia

Insomnia supports integrating with external vault service providers to retrieve secret values automatically when sending requests.

You can configure vault integration from the Insomnia UI, in Preferences > Cloud Credentials, and in Inso CLI, using environment variables.

Insomnia supports the following vault services:

AWS Secrets Manager

GCP Secret Manager

HashiCorp Vault

Azure Key Vault

  1. Navigate to Preferences > Cloud Credentials.
  2. Click Add Credentials, select Azure.
  3. You will be redirected to authorize Insomnia in your browser.
  4. After authorization, you’ll return to Insomnia with your Azure account credential added.
  5. Open Azure Key Vault from the context menu.
  6. Enter the Secret Identifier for the secret you want to access.

Vault secrets cache

Vault secret caching works like the following in Insomnia:

  • Secrets retrieved from cloud vault services are cached in memory for 30 minutes by default.
  • If the cache expires or is missing, Insomnia re-fetches the secret automatically.
  • You can configure cache duration and reset the cache in Preferences > Cloud Credentials.
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