monday.com API tokens

Connect monday.com with a personal API token. It acts as the user who generated it, with that user's board access. Use a dedicated integration user if the workflows should have a separate identity.

Prerequisites

Admins and members can generate their own API token (guests and viewers cannot) — for production use, create a dedicated integration-user seat first. A token generated from a personal account stops working if that person is deactivated.

Set up the token

1. Create a dedicated integration user

Have a monday.com admin invite a new member with a shared email like sim-bot@yourcompany.com and confirm the email address
Add the integration user to every board your workflows will read or write. The token mirrors the user's board access exactly — a board the user can't see is a board the token can't touch

2. Generate the personal API token

Log in as the integration user, click your profile picture (top-right), and choose Developers
In the Developer Center, open the API token tab and click Show to reveal the token
Copy the token exactly as shown — monday.com doesn't document a fixed token format

There is no scope picker: personal API tokens carry all API permission scopes automatically. What limits the token is the user's own access — board membership, item visibility, and account permissions.

Add the API token to Sim

Open Integrations from your workspace sidebar
Search for "Monday" and open it, then click Add to Sim and choose Add API token
Paste the API token and optionally set a display name and description
Click Add API token. Sim verifies the token by querying monday.com's me endpoint — if it fails, you'll see a specific error explaining what went wrong.

The token is encrypted before being stored.

Use the credential in workflows

Add a monday.com block to your workflow. In the credential dropdown, select the saved monday.com API token. Configure the selected operation.

The block calls monday.com's single global API endpoint (api.monday.com/v2) using the token — there's no per-tenant domain to configure. The token acts as the user it was created by, with that user's board access.

Troubleshooting and rotation

Problem	What to check
A board action fails	Give the token's user access to the board, column, or item. Writes also need edit permission; adding the credential checks identity, not every board.
Authentication fails	Verify that the user is active, is allowed to use the API, has a confirmed email, and that the token was not regenerated.
The token needs rotation	Regenerate it under Developers → API token, then use Reconnect on the saved credential in Sim. Regeneration immediately invalidates the old token, so coordinate the update with running workflows.

monday.com's documentation does not specify a scheduled expiry for personal tokens. Monitor authentication failures rather than assuming indefinite validity. See authentication and token regeneration.