Connect Linode
You need Personal access token. About two minutes.
1Get your Personal access token
Personal access token
Paste the token- In Cloud Manager, click your profile name at top right and choose API Tokens.
- Click Create a Personal Access Token and set a label and expiry.
- Set Account to Read Only and every other scope to No Access.
- Click Create Token and copy it: it is shown only once.
Needs the account:read_only scope.
Open the pagehttps://cloud.linode.com/profile/tokens
2Add it to CreditBar
- Open CreditBar from the menu bar and choose Settings, then Accounts.
- Click Add account and pick Linode.
- Paste the Personal access token into the matching field, and give the account a label you will recognise.
- Click Test connection, then Add. Numbers appear in the menu bar within a minute.
Keys are stored in your Mac's Keychain and only ever sent to Linode. Nothing passes through a CreditBar server.
3What it reads
- Reports
- account balance and the current uninvoiced estimate
- Calls
- https://api.linode.com/v4/account
- Refreshes
- At most every 5 minutes
- API docs
- Linode reference, checked 2026-09-16