How to acquire a Confluence Service Account for use with our Confluence MCP Server integration

[santhoshkumar_sethi]

Requirement Details

• Purpose: Integration with Confluence MCP Server
• Access Level: Read-Only
• Authentication: API Token/Personal Access Token required
• Usage: The token will be configured in the MCP Server to enable secure, read-only access to Confluence content.

[Gabriela - LeanZero]

Hi @santhoshkumar_sethi, nothing to acquire from Atlassian, your own org admin makes one. Atlassian Administration, Directory, Service accounts, Create a service account, then give it the Confluence role. No seat cost, they don't count towards your user limit.

Then pick the account, Create credentials, API token, set an expiry between 1 and 365 days, and tick only the read Confluence scopes. Scopes are frozen once the token exists. A wrong pick means a new token.

Read-only isn't the scopes alone. Service accounts sit under the same permission requirements as a user account, so put it in a group that only has view rights on the spaces you want reachable.

If it's Atlassian's own Rovo MCP server you're pointing at, a service account key goes in as a Bearer token. Basic auth with the base64 email and token is for personal tokens.

Manage API tokens for service accounts