Get an Atlas user by ID

Retrieve a Atlas user’s profile using their unique identifier. You cannot use this endpoint to return information on an API Key. To return information on an API Key, use the Get One API Key endpoint.


You can always retrieve your own user account.

If you are the owner of an Atlas organization or project, you can also retrieve the user profile for any user with membership in that organization or project.

The Atlas API uses HTTP Digest Authentication. Provide your Atlas username and API key as the username and password when constructing the HTTP request.


Base URL:




GET /users/{USER-ID}

Request Path Parameters

Parameter Type Description
USER-ID string Unique identifier of the user that you want to retrieve. If you know the user’s Atlas username, use the /users/byName/{USER-NAME} endpoint to retrieve the user’s profile and unique identifier.

Request Query Parameters

This endpoint may use any of the HTTP request query parameters available to all Atlas API resources. These are all optional.

Name Type Description Default
pretty boolean Displays response in a prettyprint format. false
envelope boolean Specifies whether or not to wrap the response in an envelope. false

Request Body Parameters

This endpoint does not use HTTP request body parameters.


The HTTP document contains each of the following elements:

Name Type Description
emailAddress string The Atlas user’s email address.
firstName string The Atlas user’s first name.
id string Unique identifier for the Atlas user.
lastName string The Atlas user’s last name.
links object array One or more links to sub-resources and/or related resources. The relation-types between URLs are explained in the Web Linking Specification.
mobileNumber string The Atlas user’s mobile or cell phone number.
roles object array Each object in the array represents either an Atlas organization or project the Atlas user is assigned to and the Atlas role has for the associated organization or project. You can specify either roles.orgId or roles.groupId per object.
roles.orgId string The unique identifier of the organization in which the user has the specified roles.roleName.
roles.groupId string The unique identifier of the project in which the user has the specified roles.roleName.
roles.roleName string

The name of the role.

When associated to roles.orgId, the valid roles and their mappings are:

When associated to roles.groupId, the valid roles and their mappings are:

teamIds array Array of string IDs for each team the user is a member of.
username string The Atlas username. Must use e-mail address formatting. You cannot modify the username once set.

Example Request

curl --user "{apiKey}" --digest --include \
  --header "Accept: application/json" \
  --request GET ""

Example Response

    "emailAddress": "",
    "firstName": "John",
    "id": "5af1c27a0a7fa48c76d3a761",
    "lastName": "Doe",
    "links": [
            "href": "",
            "rel": "self"
            "href": "",
            "rel": ""
    "mobileNumber" : "2125550198",
    "roles": [
            "orgId": "5af1c27a0a7fa48c76d3a762",
            "roleName": "ORG_OWNER"
            "groupId": "5af1c27a0a7fa48c76d3a763",
            "roleName": "GROUP_OWNER"
    "teamIds": [
    "username": ""