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Overview

nOps uses your OpenAI Admin API key and an API key name label to bring API usage and billing into Inform. Credentials are stored securely, validated before save, and are not shown again after you connect.

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Prerequisites

  • OpenAI organization access to create Admin API keys
  • An Admin API key with read-only permissions for billing data
  • nOps organization administrator access
Only admins and owners can connect, re-validate, or disconnect. Members see Admin Only on connectable cards.

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Create an OpenAI Admin API key

  1. Sign in to the OpenAI platform.
  2. Open Admin API keys.
  3. Click Create new Admin Key.
  4. Enter a descriptive name (for example nOps Integration).
  5. Select Read-only permissions and click Create admin key.
  6. Copy the Admin API key immediately — it is shown only once.
Do not share the Admin API key or commit it to source control. If lost, create a new key and connect again in nOps.

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Connect in nOps

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Where to open OpenAI

  • To connect for the first time — go to Settings → Integrations and click the OpenAI card.
  • To manage an existing connection — go to Settings → Account Status → Connected apps and click the OpenAI chip to re-validate or disconnect.

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Connect steps

  1. Click the OpenAI card or chip.
  2. Enter an API key name (for example Production OpenAI) and paste the Admin API key.
  3. Click Connect.
nOps validates the Admin API key with OpenAI before storing it.

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Manage your connection

Use Re-validate to check stored credentials without re-entering them, or Disconnect to remove them. Action required usually means a revoked, expired, or non-admin key — create a new Admin API key in OpenAI and connect again.

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Troubleshooting

  • Invalid key — use an Admin API key with read-only billing access, not a standard project API key.
  • No data — allow up to 24 hours for initial sync; confirm billing activity in OpenAI.
  • Multiple accounts — use distinct API key name values if you connect more than one OpenAI organization over time.

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Security

Rotate Admin API keys on a schedule. Update the integration in nOps before a key expires if you set an expiration in OpenAI.