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Glossary: Monitoring Tools and the Identity Life Cycle

OpenID Connect (OIDC)

Also written: OIDC, OpenID Connect

An identity layer built on OAuth 2.0 that adds an ID token saying who the user is. "Sign in with Google" uses it.

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Related terms

OAuth (Open Authorization)ID tokenJWTSAML (Security Assertion Markup Language)