Request Syntax Request Parameters Response Syntax Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

GetSecretValue

Retrieves the contents of the encrypted fields SecretString or SecretBinary from the specified version of a secret, whichever contains content.

To retrieve the values for a group of secrets, call BatchGetSecretValue.

We recommend that you cache your secret values by using client-side caching. Caching secrets improves speed and reduces your costs. For more information, see Cache secrets for your applications.

To retrieve the previous version of a secret, use VersionStage and specify AWSPREVIOUS. To revert to the previous version of a secret, call UpdateSecretVersionStage.

Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. Do not include sensitive information in request parameters because it might be logged. For more information, see Logging Secrets Manager events with AWS CloudTrail.

Required permissions: secretsmanager:GetSecretValue. If the secret is encrypted using a customer-managed key instead of the AWS managed key aws/secretsmanager, then you also need kms:Decrypt permissions for that key. For more information, see IAM policy actions for Secrets Manager and Authentication and access control in Secrets Manager.

Request Syntax


{
   "SecretId": "string",
   "VersionId": "string",
   "VersionStage": "string"
}

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

SecretId

The ARN or name of the secret to retrieve. To retrieve a secret from another account, you must use an ARN.

For an ARN, we recommend that you specify a complete ARN rather than a partial ARN. See Finding a secret from a partial ARN.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 2048.

Required: Yes

VersionId

The unique identifier of the version of the secret to retrieve. If you include both this parameter and VersionStage, the two parameters must refer to the same secret version. If you don't specify either a VersionStage or VersionId, then Secrets Manager returns the AWSCURRENT version.

This value is typically a UUID-type value with 32 hexadecimal digits.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 32. Maximum length of 64.

Required: No

VersionStage

The staging label of the version of the secret to retrieve.

Secrets Manager uses staging labels to keep track of different versions during the rotation process. If you include both this parameter and VersionId, the two parameters must refer to the same secret version. If you don't specify either a VersionStage or VersionId, Secrets Manager returns the AWSCURRENT version.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.

Required: No

Response Syntax


{
   "ARN": "string",
   "CreatedDate": number,
   "Name": "string",
   "SecretBinary": blob,
   "SecretString": "string",
   "VersionId": "string",
   "VersionStages": [ "string" ]
}

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

ARN

The ARN of the secret.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 20. Maximum length of 2048.

CreatedDate

The date and time that this version of the secret was created. If you don't specify which version in VersionId or VersionStage, then Secrets Manager uses the AWSCURRENT version.

Type: Timestamp

Name

The friendly name of the secret.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.

SecretBinary

The decrypted secret value, if the secret value was originally provided as binary data in the form of a byte array. When you retrieve a SecretBinary using the HTTP API, the Python SDK, or the AWS CLI, the value is Base64-encoded. Otherwise, it is not encoded.

If the secret was created by using the Secrets Manager console, or if the secret value was originally provided as a string, then this field is omitted. The secret value appears in SecretString instead.

Sensitive: This field contains sensitive information, so the service does not include it in AWS CloudTrail log entries. If you create your own log entries, you must also avoid logging the information in this field.

Type: Base64-encoded binary data object

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 65536.

SecretString

The decrypted secret value, if the secret value was originally provided as a string or through the Secrets Manager console.

If this secret was created by using the console, then Secrets Manager stores the information as a JSON structure of key/value pairs.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 65536.

VersionId

The unique identifier of this version of the secret.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 32. Maximum length of 64.

VersionStages

A list of all of the staging labels currently attached to this version of the secret.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Minimum number of 1 item. Maximum number of 20 items.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

DecryptionFailure

Secrets Manager can't decrypt the protected secret text using the provided KMS key.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InternalServiceError

An error occurred on the server side.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidParameterException

The parameter name or value is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidRequestException

A parameter value is not valid for the current state of the resource.

Possible causes:

The secret is scheduled for deletion.
You tried to enable rotation on a secret that doesn't already have a Lambda function ARN configured and you didn't include such an ARN as a parameter in this call.
The secret is managed by another service, and you must use that service to update it. For more information, see Secrets managed by other AWS services.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

Secrets Manager can't find the resource that you asked for.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Example

The following example shows how to retrieve the secret value from a secret. The JSON request string input and response output displays formatted code with white space and line breaks for better readability. Submit your input as a single line JSON string.

Sample Request


POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: secretsmanager.region.domain
Accept-Encoding: identity
X-Amz-Target: secretsmanager.GetSecretValue
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
User-Agent: <user-agent-string>
X-Amz-Date: <date>
Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=<credentials>,SignedHeaders=<headers>, Signature=<signature>
Content-Length: <payload-size-bytes>

{
  "SecretId": "MyTestDatabaseSecret",
}

Sample Response


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: <date>
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Content-Length: <response-size-bytes>
Connection: keep-alive
x-amzn-RequestId: <request-id-guid>

{
  "ARN":"arn:aws:secretsmanager:us-west-2:123456789012:secret:MyTestDatabaseSecret-a1b2c3",
  "CreatedDate":1.523477145713E9,
  "Name":"MyTestDatabaseSecret",
  "SecretString":"{\n  \"username\":\"david\",\n  \"password\":\"EXAMPLE-PASSWORD\"\n}\n",
  "VersionId":"EXAMPLE1-90ab-cdef-fedc-ba987SECRET1"
}