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Twingate
API integration

Ship Application Development features without building the integration. Full Twingate API access via Proxy, normalized data through Unified APIs — extend models and mappings to fit your product.

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Use Cases

Why integrate with Twingate

Common scenarios for SaaS companies building Twingate integrations for their customers.

01

Automate identity governance across zero-trust network access

IGA and compliance platforms can pull Twingate user and group data to detect orphaned accounts, enforce least-privilege access policies, and generate audit-ready reports — helping their customers maintain SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance without manual reconciliation.

02

Power just-in-time access provisioning for privileged networks

Privileged access management tools can programmatically add and remove users from Twingate groups to grant temporary, scoped network access — enabling time-bound SSH or database access workflows that automatically revoke permissions after a defined window.

03

Centralize user visibility for MSP administration dashboards

Platforms built for managed service providers can aggregate Twingate user directories across multiple client tenants into a single view, enabling MSPs to monitor active accounts, detect security drift, and streamline onboarding/offboarding at scale.

04

Sync user lifecycle events from HR systems to network access

Workforce management and HR platforms can cross-reference employee records with Twingate's user directory to automatically suspend network access for terminated employees and provision access for new hires — closing the gap between HR actions and infrastructure security.

05

Enrich security posture dashboards with network identity data

Security and observability platforms can ingest Twingate user and group membership data to correlate network access patterns with identity context, surfacing over-privileged users or anomalous access across zero-trust environments.

What You Can Build

Ship these features with Truto + Twingate

Concrete product features your team can ship faster by leveraging Truto’s Twingate integration instead of building from scratch.

01

Ghost account detection and auto-remediation

Cross-reference Twingate's active user list with your HR or IdP data to flag and automatically suspend accounts belonging to former employees or inactive contractors.

02

Unified user directory with Twingate network context

Display Twingate user roles, states, and group memberships alongside identities from other connected platforms in a single, normalized view for compliance teams.

03

Automated onboarding group assignment

When a new employee is detected in your system, automatically add them to the appropriate Twingate groups based on department or role to grant day-one network access.

04

Scheduled access review campaigns

Generate periodic access review reports that list every Twingate user, their group memberships, and role assignments so managers can certify or revoke access in your product's UI.

05

Multi-tenant Twingate user aggregation for MSPs

Let MSP customers connect multiple Twingate accounts and view all users across client environments in a consolidated dashboard with filtering and alerting.

06

Real-time offboarding workflow trigger

Trigger immediate Twingate user suspension or role downgrade from your platform when an offboarding event fires — ensuring network access is revoked in lockstep with identity lifecycle changes.

Unified APIs

Unified APIs for Twingate

Skip writing code for every integration. Use Truto’s category-specific Unified APIs out of the box or customize the mappings with AI.

Unified User Directory API

Users

The User object represents a User.

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How It Works

From zero to integrated

Go live with Twingate in under an hour. No boilerplate, no maintenance burden.

01

Link your customer’s Twingate account

Use Truto’s frontend SDK to connect your customer’s Twingate account. We handle all OAuth and API key flows — you don’t need to create the OAuth app.

02

We handle authentication

Don’t spend time refreshing access tokens or figuring out secure storage. We handle it and inject credentials into every API request.

03

Call our API, we call Twingate

Truto’s Proxy API is a 1-to-1 mapping of the Twingate API. You call us, we call Twingate, and pass the response back in the same cycle.

04

Unified response format

Every response follows a single format across all integrations. We translate Twingate’s pagination into unified cursor-based pagination. Data is always in the result attribute.

FAQs

Common questions about Twingate on Truto

Authentication, rate limits, data freshness, and everything else you need to know before you integrate.

How does authentication work for the Twingate integration?

Twingate uses API keys scoped to a specific network. End users generate an API key from their Twingate Admin Console, which Truto securely stores and manages. Truto handles token injection on every request so your application never touches raw credentials.

What data can I access through the Unified User Directory API for Twingate?

Through the Unified User Directory API, you can access Twingate user records including user roles, user states (active, suspended), and group memberships. This covers the core identity data needed for governance, compliance, and lifecycle management workflows.

Twingate uses a GraphQL API — does that affect how I interact with it through Truto?

No. Truto abstracts Twingate's GraphQL API behind a normalized REST interface via the Unified User Directory API. You work with consistent REST endpoints and JSON payloads — Truto handles the GraphQL query construction, pagination cursors, and response normalization.

Are Twingate-specific tools available today, or are they built on request?

Twingate tools beyond the Unified User Directory API (Users) are built on request. If you need access to resources, connectors, devices, or security policies, Truto can scope and build those tools based on your specific use case — typically within days.

How does Truto handle pagination for Twingate's GraphQL API?

Truto manages cursor-based pagination natively. When you query users or groups, Truto automatically follows pagination cursors across multiple GraphQL requests and returns a complete, unified result set — so you don't need to implement pagination logic yourself.

Can I write data back to Twingate, or is this read-only?

Twingate's API supports full CRUD operations on users and groups. The specific write operations available through Truto depend on the tools configured for your integration. Contact Truto to scope write capabilities like user suspension, role updates, or group membership changes for your use case.

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