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Creating Scouts with API Key and Silent Install for Custom Hives

Posted on September 11, 2025

A user asked for assistance in creating scouts using an API key. Another user shared a link to a Knowledge Base article on silent installs for custom hives.A member asked for clarification on the API and offered to answer any questions.


Read the entire ‘Creating Scouts with API Key and Silent Install for Custom Hives’ thread below:

Hi everyone, I’m looking for help to create scouts using an API key. I’d be grateful if anyone could assist me with this.


You can follow this KB to do a silent hive install.

https://support.controlup.com/docs/silent-install-for-synthetic-monitoring-custom-hives?highlight=silent%20install


Hello @member, I am looking for help to create scouts using an API key.

you have shared about Silent Install for Custom Hives


This api right? https://api.controlup.io/reference/appcreate_scout

Are you looking for examples or more information?

If you have questions I can probably answer those. I don’t think I have an example. But let me dig around

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