Introducing new REST and Observability APIs for Hex Admins

Today, we’re excited to introduce a new set of APIs for Hex Admins — a powerful way to programmatically manage your workspace, streamline governance, and integrate more deeply with your existing data platform.

Every growing organization runs into the same challenge: admin tasks that scale linearly with team size. What worked for 50 users becomes untenable at 500 or 5,000. Manual permission updates, group changes, and project clean-up don’t scale, leading to significant overhead.

Our new Admin REST APIs help teams cut through the clutter with automation, auditability, and scale. You can now programmatically manage users, groups, projects, and more — giving you time back to focus on building impactful data products.

Whether you’re wrangling dozens of users or hundreds of projects, the Admin APIs make it easy to:

• Automate user provisioning and group management (no directory sync required)

• Enforce consistent access policies across teams

• Integrate Hex into your internal IT or platform tooling

• Manage workspace collections at scale

• Rotate credentials for data connections

Key API capabilities

With Hex’s REST APIs, you can replace error-prone manual workflows with fast, automated processes that scale effortlessly:

• 👥 Users & Groups: Add, remove, and manage group memberships to streamline onboarding and offboarding, and keep access aligned with your org chart.

• 🗂️ Collections: Create and update project collections with specific sharing settings to enforce workspace structure and permission boundaries.

• 🔐 Data Connections: Rotate credentials, update configurations, and manage access to secure data sources — no UI clicks required.

• 📊 Project Usage Insights (Enterprise plan only): Use the new queriedTables endpoint to understand which data tables a project queries. This comes in handy for audits, lineage mapping, and impact analysis.

Ready to transform your admin workflows? Check out our API overview and API reference docs.

Interested in a Hex MCP server?

We're exploring the possibility of offering a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to provide a hosted orchestration layer for managing users, permissions, and policies at scale — backed by Hex’s Admin APIs.

If you’re interested in something like this, drop us a note at [email protected]. Your feedback will help shape what comes next!