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# Reference

This section provides reference information for the PingOne Platform API. Topics include:

* [Error codes](reference/error-codes.html)

  Provides a list of common PingOne top-level and detail API error messages. The error response includes a high-level error code and optional details containing specific information on how to resolve the issue.

* [Query parameter quick reference](reference/query-parameter-quick-reference.html)

  Provides a quick reference to show the SCIM operators that apply to a given PingOne endpoint operation. It also provides information about endpoint operations that support the `limit`, `order`, and `expand` filters.

* [Paging and ordering collections](reference/paging-ordering-collections.html)

  Provides general information about paging, ordering, and filtering large collections.

* [Password encoding](reference/password-encoding.html)

  Provides the list of Key Derivation Functions (KDF) and crytographic ciphers as methods for password encoding that PingOne supports.

* [TLS and cipher suite requirements](reference/handshakes.html)

  Provides information about TLS and cipher suite requirements for the `auth.pingone.com` and `api.pingone.com` domains.

* [External transaction and session IDs](reference/external-transaction-and-session-ids.html)

  Provides information about custom HTTP headers across all endpoints that help track transactions in PingOne. These are optional headers to correlate with your own transactions and sessions.

* [PingOne Localization](reference/localization.html)

  Provides information about localization in PingOne, including how PingOne services use the end user's browser settings as a factor to determine which language to present to users.

* [Load Testing](reference/load-testing.html)

  Provides guidelines that will help you conduct load testing in a way that will yield accurate results based on your service level agreement (SLA) and the inherent limits of the PingOne platform.

* [PingOne Platform Limits](https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingone/getting_started_with_pingone/p1_platform_limits.html)

  A link to the topic in the *PingOne Admin Guide* that describes the PingOne platform limits.

* [Roles and Permissions in PingOne](reference/roles-and-permissions-in-pingone.html)

  Provides a list (and descriptions) of the PingOne built-in roles, and a list of PingOne role permissions that can be used to define custom roles.

* [Audit Reporting Events](reference/audit-reporting-events.html)

  Provides a list of all PingOne audit reporting events by event type and event name.

The following reference topics are available in *Foundations*:

* [Conventions](../foundations/conventions.html)

  Includes detailed information about PingOne API requests and responses.

* [Platform security](../foundations/api-security.html)

  Lists the measures taken to ensure the continued resiliency and security of the PingOne platform, as well as measures you can take in this regard for your deployment and applications.