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Create a Meraki Dashboard API key and paste it into StatusCheck.

Get the key from Meraki

  1. 1Sign in at dashboard.meraki.com with an account that can see every organization you want monitored.
  2. 2Go to Organization → API & Webhooks.
  3. 3Enable API access for the organization if it is not already on.
  4. 4Generate a new API key and copy it. Meraki shows the key once — if you lose it you must revoke it and generate another.

Read access is enough. StatusCheck only writes to Meraki when you explicitly ask it to — for example rebooting a device from the device window.

Add it to StatusCheck

  1. 1Open Integrations.
  2. 2Under Add integration, choose Cisco Meraki as the vendor.
  3. 3Give it a Label you will recognize later — the customer or organization name is usually right, because you will see this label on every error and every sync message.
  4. 4Paste the API key and save.

The key goes straight into an encrypted vault. It is never stored in a table your browser can read, and the Integrations page only ever shows you a short hint of it.

What you should see within a minute or two

  • The integration card shows a green active status and a Last sync timestamp.
  • A device count appears on the card.
  • Devices start filling the Dashboard, tagged with the Meraki network they came from in the Vendor site column.

One Meraki key can see every organization that account belongs to, and StatusCheck imports all of them. If the account has access to customers you do not want in this workspace, use a key from a more tightly scoped account.

Nothing after a few minutes? Press Test on the integration card — see what to do when an integration fails.

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