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# Getting Started

Everything you need to integrate with the tesma API — from authenticating your requests to handling errors gracefully. Follow our guides to get up and running quickly.

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## Core Concepts

Start here — these two topics are essential for every integration. Learn how to authenticate your API calls and handle errors reliably.

[](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/authentication)

[](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/authentication)

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### Authentication





](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/authentication)

[](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/authentication)[Read the guide →](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/authentication)

Secure your API integration using personal access tokens. Learn how to generate, activate, and send your token with every request using the `X-API-KEY` header.

[](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/error-handling)

[](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/error-handling)

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### Error Handling





](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/error-handling)

[](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/error-handling)[Read the guide →](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/error-handling)

Understand how the API communicates failures using standard HTTP status codes and RFC 7807 Problem Details. Handle `4xx` client errors and `5xx` server errors with confidence.

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## More Topics

Dive deeper into specific integration topics to get the most out of the tesma API.

[](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/querying-data)

[](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/querying-data)

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#### Querying Data





](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/querying-data)

[](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/querying-data)[Learn more](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/querying-data)

Filter, sort, and paginate API results to efficiently retrieve exactly the data your application needs.

[](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/culture-handling)

[](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/culture-handling)

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#### Culture & Localization





](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/culture-handling)

[](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/culture-handling)[Learn more](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/culture-handling)

Work with culture settings and localization options to serve the correct language and format for each region.

[](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/api-versioning)

[](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/api-versioning)

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#### API Versioning





](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/api-versioning)

[](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/api-versioning)[Learn more](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/api-versioning)

Understand how to target specific API versions to keep your integration stable across releases.

[](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/tracing)

[](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/tracing)

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#### Tracing & Monitoring





](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/tracing)

[](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/tracing)[Learn more](https://developer.tesma.com/getting-started/tracing)

Use trace IDs and monitoring tools to debug API requests and optimize performance in production.