CORE-11690 was submitted by Tdanner for this.
Original thread:
Re: SolarWinds Orion API & SDK: Authenticating with the application API key
It would be very valuable to have API keys for automation, and not be limited to HTTPS Basic authentication (username and password) or PowerShell API client Windows authentication (Kerberos). Ideally we could specify Read Only, Manage Nodes, etc for different API keys.