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Furthermore, the Edit Check settings page will look like this:

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Step 1: Add

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Existing Credentials to a Postman

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Environment

Postman environments allow for the storage of secrets/keys so that they can be re-used/hidden in Postman. By moving your credentials to the Postman environment, you are allowing them to be exported into a format which the Postman check runner will able to read. Here is an example of an Environment we set up in Postman which will store our GitHub credentials:

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You will reference the “Variable” “variable” in your script as an environment variable. For example, this script uses {{apiKey}} since the Variable variable is apiKey.

Step 2: Export Postman environment to file

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The environment file (uploaded from Postman) and the Postman file should be stored in the same directory. In my our example, we stored our Postman collection in /postman relative to my Repository Root which we defined in our Repository Profile:

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