Connect Upstash
You need Management API key and Account email. About two minutes.
1Get these from Upstash
Management API key
Paste the Upstash API key- In the Upstash console, open Account and select the Developer API tab.
- Click Create API Key, name it, choose Read Only and an expiry, then click Submit.
- Copy the key now: Upstash does not keep it.
Upstash console, top right avatar, Account, Management API. Create an API key. The key is shown once.
Open the pagehttps://console.upstash.com/account/api
Account email
you@example.com- Use the email address you sign in to the Upstash console with.
- Open Account in the Upstash console to confirm which email the account uses.
The email you sign in to Upstash with. It is the username half of the Basic auth pair the Management API expects.
2Add it to CreditBar
- Open CreditBar from the menu bar and choose Settings, then Accounts.
- Click Add account and pick Upstash.
- Paste the Management API key and the Account email into the matching fields, 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 Upstash. Nothing passes through a CreditBar server.
3What it reads
- Reports
- lists the databases this key can see
- Calls
- https://api.upstash.com/v2/redis/databases
- Refreshes
- At most every 15 minutes
- API docs
- Upstash reference, checked 2026-09-18
Redis databases only. Vector, Search and QStash are billed separately and are not included here. At most 10 databases are read on a refresh.