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# Service exists

Check whether a service exists.

Returns: Detailed information about the latest version of the Spark service.

{% code overflow="wrap" %}

```shellscript
GET /{tenant}/api/v3/folders/{folder}/services/{service}/exists
```

{% endcode %}

### Authorization

* `Bearer {token}` accessible from [Authorization - Bearer token](/spark-apis/authorization-bearer-token.md) or systematically via [Client credentials](/identity-and-access-management/client-credentials.md).
  * The request headers should include a key for `Authorization` with the value `Bearer {token}`.
* API key created from [Authorization - API keys](/spark-apis/authorization-api-keys.md). It must contain [Manage users](/tenant-administration/manage-users.md#user-groups) that are also assigned to [Permissions - Features permissions](/spark-apis/authorization-api-keys/permissions-features-permissions.md) `Spark.ServiceExists.json` or `Spark.AllEncompassingProxy.json`.
  * The request headers should include the keys `x-synthetic-key` and `x-tenant-name` with the values of the API key and tenant name respectively.

### Path parameters

| Key          | Value                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| ------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `tenant` \*  | Tenant is part of your [Login and logout](/navigation/login-and-logout.md#log-in-to-spark) URL and also available in the [Navigation menu](/navigation/navigation-menu.md#user-menu). |
| `folder` \*  | Folder associated with the request.                                                                                                                                                   |
| `service` \* | Service associated with the request.                                                                                                                                                  |

### Sample response

`HTTP 200 OK` `Content-Type: application/json`

<table><thead><tr><th>Service exists</th><th>Service does not exist</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><pre class="language-json"><code class="lang-json">{
    "status": "Success",
    "response_data": {
        "id": "6845025a-3bb2-4dfe-b1dc-c3d6eb7f23e2",
        "name": "AplusB",
        "is_exists": true,
        "version": "0.2.0",
        "last_modified_date": "2026-03-26T03:28:47.000Z",
        "latest_version_id": "2d67f048-3cde-4801-b11f-cfd7e1702e5a",
        "effective_start_date": "2025-01-24T07:32:00Z",
        "effective_end_date": "2125-01-24T07:32:00Z",
        "tags": "",
        "service_status": "active"
    },
    "response_meta": {
        "system": "SPARK",
        "request_timestamp": "2026-04-23T05:36:44.788Z"
    },
    "error": null
}
</code></pre></td><td><pre class="language-json"><code class="lang-json">{
    "status": "Success",
    "response_data": {
        "id": null,
        "name": null,
        "is_exists": false,
        "version": null,
        "last_modified_date": null,
        "latest_version_id": null,
        "effective_start_date": null,
        "effective_end_date": null,
        "tags": null,
        "service_status": null
    },
    "response_meta": {
        "system": "SPARK",
        "request_timestamp": "2026-04-23T05:40:10.364Z"
    },
    "error": null
}
</code></pre></td></tr></tbody></table>