Create a KV namespace

Creates a new KV namespace. Provisioning is asynchronous: the namespace is returned with status pending and becomes usable once it reaches provision_ok.

POST /storage/kvs

JavaScript

JavaScript

import Telnyx from 'telnyx';

const client = new Telnyx({
  apiKey: process.env['TELNYX_API_KEY'], // This is the default and can be omitted
});

const KvNamespaceResponseWrapper = await client.storage.kvs.create({
  name: 'my-cache',
});

console.log(KvNamespaceResponseWrapper.data);

import os
from telnyx import Telnyx

client = Telnyx(
    api_key=os.environ.get("TELNYX_API_KEY"),  # This is the default and can be omitted
)
kv_namespace_response_wrapper = client.storage.kvs.create(
    name="my-cache",
)
print(kv_namespace_response_wrapper.data)

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"

	"github.com/team-telnyx/telnyx-go"
	"github.com/team-telnyx/telnyx-go/option"
)

func main() {
	client := telnyx.NewClient(
		option.WithAPIKey("My API Key"),
	)
	kv, err := client.Storage.Kvs.New(
		context.TODO(),
		telnyx.StorageKvsNewParams{,
				Name: telnyx.String("my-cache"),,
			},
	)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err.Error())
	}
	fmt.Printf("%+v\n", kv.Data)
}

package com.telnyx.sdk.example;

import com.telnyx.sdk.client.TelnyxClient;
import com.telnyx.sdk.client.okhttp.TelnyxOkHttpClient;

public final class Main {
    private Main() {}

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        TelnyxClient client = TelnyxOkHttpClient.fromEnv();

        Params params = Params.builder()
            .name("my-cache")
            .build();
        KvNamespaceResponseWrapper response = client.storage()kvs()create(params);
    }
}

require "telnyx"

telnyx = Telnyx::Client.new(api_key: "My API Key")

kv_namespace_response_wrapper = telnyx.storage.kvs.create(name: "my-cache")

puts(kv_namespace_response_wrapper)

<?php

require_once dirname(__DIR__) . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use Telnyx\Client;
use Telnyx\Core\Exceptions\APIException;

$client = new Client(apiKey: getenv('TELNYX_API_KEY') ?: 'My API Key');

try {
  $kv_namespace_response_wrapper = $client->storage->kvs->create(
    name: 'my-cache',
  );

  var_dump($kv_namespace_response_wrapper);
} catch (APIException $e) {
  echo $e->getMessage();
}

telnyx storage:kvs create \
  --api-key 'My API Key' \
  --name my-cache

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.telnyx.com/v2/storage/kvs \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "name": "my-cache"
}
'

201

{
  "data": {
    "record_type": "storage_kv",
    "id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
    "name": "my-cache",
    "status": "provision_ok",
    "created_at": "2026-06-18T14:48:17Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-06-18T14:48:17Z"
  }
}

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "10005",
      "detail": "The requested function does not exist or you don't have access to it",
      "meta": {
        "url": "https://docs.telnyx.com/api/errors/10005"
      },
      "source": {
        "parameter": "id",
        "pointer": "/id"
      },
      "title": "Function not found"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "10005",
      "detail": "The requested function does not exist or you don't have access to it",
      "meta": {
        "url": "https://docs.telnyx.com/api/errors/10005"
      },
      "source": {
        "parameter": "id",
        "pointer": "/id"
      },
      "title": "Function not found"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "10005",
      "detail": "The requested function does not exist or you don't have access to it",
      "meta": {
        "url": "https://docs.telnyx.com/api/errors/10005"
      },
      "source": {
        "parameter": "id",
        "pointer": "/id"
      },
      "title": "Function not found"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "10005",
      "detail": "The requested function does not exist or you don't have access to it",
      "meta": {
        "url": "https://docs.telnyx.com/api/errors/10005"
      },
      "source": {
        "parameter": "id",
        "pointer": "/id"
      },
      "title": "Function not found"
    }
  ]
}

Authorizations

Authorization · string · header · required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Body

application/json

KV namespace creation request

name · string · required

Namespace name. May contain lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens only.

Required string length: 1 - 255

Pattern: ^[a-z0-9-]+$

Example:

"my-cache"

Response

201

application/json

KV namespace created successfully

data · object

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