Sandboxes

Users will need to be added separately for the Developer Portal and the Sandbox.

This is an equivalent environment to a Samsara customer dashboard. You can access Samsara's native features and navigate to Settings > Apps to install your draft app (i.e. grant data sharing via OAuth 2.0 or API Token) for alpha testing.

ℹ️ Sandboxes are an area we want to enhance over time to make the developer experience better. What type of simulated data would support integration development and alpha testing? Please submit your requests for improvement via our feedback form here.

How do I access test data in my sandbox?

You have two options for testing:

• Contact Samsara Support and include your Developer Portal org ID (from the cloud.samsara.com URL). Ask for sandbox simulated GPS / trip data. Support can provision demo vehicles in your sandbox with recent synthetic trip history, including GPS location, Odometer, Engine state.
  • Typical setup today:
    • 2 demo vehicles in your sandbox dashboard
    • About 3 days of trip history per vehicle
    • Trips visible in each vehicle’s Trips view (check the backfill date range, not only “today”)

    Notes

    • This is historical demo data for integration testing
    • Sandboxes are non-production; availability of simulated data can vary.

• Contacting a mutual customer to acquire an API token from their Samsara org. You can scope that token down to a Samsara Tag to limit which assets and drivers you will test your integration on.

Get API access in your Sandbox

Use your Sandbox to follow the steps a mutual customer would take to install your app (i.e. grant data sharing access). You can access your draft app in your test org for testing.

• OAuth 2.0 apps: log in to Samsara and grant data access via your draft app
• [Legacy]API Token apps: install your draft app under Settings > Apps to generate a prescoped API token