Render

Render connects with an API key from your account settings. Your key is encrypted before it is stored, and the agent never sees it.

Setup

1. Open the Render Dashboard, go to Account Settings → API Keys.
2. Click Create API Key.
3. Copy the key and paste it into Polylane.
4. Polylane validates the key and starts syncing.

Polylane discovers your web services, private services, background workers, cron jobs, databases, and other Render resources.

Troubleshooting

"Invalid API key" error

• Make sure you copied the full key (it starts with rnd_).
• Check that the key has not been revoked in Render's dashboard.
• Verify you are using an API key, not a deploy hook token.

Missing resources

• Render can take a few minutes to sync everything.
• Trigger a manual Sync from the account header to refresh.

Disconnecting

Disconnect the account in Polylane, then revoke the API key from your Render dashboard.

Connecting Render needs no browser: the same endpoint the console calls fits in a CI job. One authenticated POST creates the connection and starts the first sync.

Prerequisites

• A Polylane API key with the cloud_accounts:write and cloud_accounts:read scopes. See API keys and OAuth.
• Your workspace ID, which starts with ws_. Read it from GET /v1/workspaces with the same key.
• A Render API key (starts with rnd_) from Account Settings → API Keys.

Create the connection

curl -X POST https://api.polylane.com/v1/cloud_accounts \
  -H "x-api-key: $POLYLANE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "provider": "render",
    "workspaceId": "ws_0abc123",
    "apiKey": "rnd_..."
  }'

One call connects every Render workspace the key can reach; pass the optional ownerId (usr-… or tea-…) to connect just one.

The response lists what was connected, with the first sync already running. Trimmed to the two fields the rest of the flow reads:

{
  "success": true,
  "result": {
    "provider": "render",
    "accounts": [{ "id": "acc_34gky74ibc92h8t2efn8csrh", "status": "syncing" }],
    "failures": []
  }
}

An account that is already connected lands in failures instead of accounts, so repeating the call never duplicates a connection.

Wait for the first sync

Poll each returned account by its id until status reaches ready (new on registration, syncing while resources stream in):

until [ "$(curl -s "https://api.polylane.com/v1/cloud_accounts/$WORKSPACE_ID/$ACCOUNT_ID" \
  -H "x-api-key: $POLYLANE_API_KEY" | jq -r '.result.status')" = "ready" ]; do
  sleep 15
done

Give the loop a deadline so a failed connect fails the job instead of hanging it. Once the account is ready, its resources are in the topology and Polylane has started its first check.

Disconnect from the API

Deleting the connection stops every sync and check and deletes the credentials Polylane held. The call needs the cloud_accounts:delete scope:

curl -X DELETE "https://api.polylane.com/v1/cloud_accounts/$WORKSPACE_ID/$ACCOUNT_ID" \
  -H "x-api-key: $POLYLANE_API_KEY"

Then revoke the Render credential on the provider side, as described under Disconnect below.