> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.orq.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Retrieve an identity

> Retrieves detailed information about a specific identity using their identity ID or external ID from your system.



## OpenAPI

````yaml get /v2/identities/{id}
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: orq.ai API
  version: '2.0'
  description: orq.ai API documentation
servers:
  - url: https://api.orq.ai
security:
  - ApiKey: []
tags:
  - description: List models available through the AI Router.
    name: Models
  - name: Guardrail Rules
  - name: Policies
  - name: Routing Rules
  - name: API keys
    description: >-
      API keys authenticate programmatic access to the workspace. The unified
      key model exposes opaque tokens, per-domain access grants, and budget /
      rate-limit constraints (see ADR 0001 and ADR 0002).
  - name: Budgets
    description: >-
      Budgets govern spend, token usage, and request rate across six scopes:
      workspace, project, identity, api-key, provider, and model. A budget is
      hierarchical and defense-in-depth — every applicable budget is a hard
      gate, and the most restrictive one wins per dimension (see ADR 0007).
  - name: Documentation
    description: >-
      Search the orq.ai documentation. Proxies the workspace's query to the
      hosted docs search index.
  - name: Files
    description: File upload and retrieval operations.
  - name: Identities
    description: >-
      Identities represent end users from your system for usage and engagement
      tracking.
  - name: Projects
    description: Projects organize resources within a workspace
  - name: Skills
    description: >-
      Skills are modular instructions you can use to codify processes and
      conventions
  - name: Responses
  - description: >-
      Run agents on a cadence — cron, interval, or one-off. Minimum firing
      interval is 1 hour.
    name: Agent Schedules
  - name: Embeddings
  - name: Reporting
    description: >-
      GenAI reporting API over canonical analytics rollups. Accepts a metric
      name, time range, grain, group-by, and filters; returns a typed time
      series and optional totals.
externalDocs:
  url: https://docs.orq.ai
  description: orq.ai Documentation
paths:
  /v2/identities/{id}:
    get:
      tags:
        - Identities
      summary: Retrieve an identity
      description: >-
        Retrieves detailed information about a specific identity using their
        identity ID or external ID from your system.
      operationId: RetrieveIdentity
      parameters:
        - name: id
          in: path
          description: Identity ID to retrieve.
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: include_metrics
          in: query
          description: Include aggregate usage metrics on the returned identity.
          schema:
            type: boolean
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/RetrieveIdentityResponse'
      x-code-samples:
        - lang: curl
          label: Core - Retrieve identity with metrics
          source: |
            curl --get 'https://api.orq.ai/v2/identities/customer_12345' \
              --header 'Authorization: Bearer $ORQ_API_KEY' \
              --data-urlencode 'include_metrics=true'
        - lang: python
          label: Python - Retrieve identity with metrics
          source: |
            import os
            from orq_ai_sdk import Orq

            client = Orq(api_key=os.environ["ORQ_API_KEY"])

            result = client.identities.retrieve(
                id="customer_12345",
                include_metrics=True,
            )

            print(result.identity.display_name)
            print(result.identity.metrics.total_requests)
        - lang: typescript
          label: Node.js - Retrieve identity with metrics
          source: |
            import { Orq } from '@orq-ai/node';

            const client = new Orq({
              apiKey: process.env.ORQ_API_KEY,
            });

            const result = await client.identities.retrieve({
              id: 'customer_12345',
              includeMetrics: true,
            });

            console.log(result.identity.displayName);
            console.log(result.identity.metrics.totalRequests);
components:
  schemas:
    RetrieveIdentityResponse:
      required:
        - identity
      type: object
      properties:
        identity:
          allOf:
            - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Identity'
          description: Requested identity.
    Identity:
      required:
        - _id
        - external_id
        - workspace_id
        - created
        - updated
      type: object
      properties:
        _id:
          type: string
          description: |-
            Unique identity identifier assigned by ORQ. Returned as `_id` for
             compatibility with the v1 identity API.
        external_id:
          type: string
          description: |-
            Customer-provided stable identifier for this identity. This value is
             required on create and is unique within the workspace.
        workspace_id:
          type: string
          description: Workspace that owns the identity.
        display_name:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable display name for the identity.
        email:
          type: string
          description: Email address associated with the identity.
        avatar_url:
          type: string
          description: URL of the identity avatar image.
        tags:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
          description: Free-form labels used to organize and filter identities.
        metadata:
          type: object
          description: Custom JSON metadata stored with the identity.
        created:
          type: string
          description: ISO timestamp for when the identity was created.
        updated:
          type: string
          description: ISO timestamp for when the identity was last updated.
        metrics:
          allOf:
            - $ref: '#/components/schemas/IdentityMetrics'
          description: |-
            Optional usage and cost metrics. Present only when requested with
             `include_metrics`.
    IdentityMetrics:
      required:
        - total_tokens
        - total_cost
        - total_requests
        - error_rate
      type: object
      properties:
        total_tokens:
          type: number
          description: Total token count attributed to the identity.
          format: double
        total_cost:
          type: number
          description: Total cost attributed to the identity.
          format: double
        total_requests:
          type: number
          description: Total request count attributed to the identity.
          format: double
        error_rate:
          type: number
          description: Fraction of attributed requests that failed.
          format: double
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKey:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT

````