---
title: "Bulk convert rules to Terraform"
method: POST
path: "/api/v2/security_monitoring/rules/convert/bulk"
tags: ["Security Monitoring"]
---

# Bulk convert rules to Terraform

`POST /api/v2/security_monitoring/rules/convert/bulk`

Convert a list of existing security monitoring rules to Terraform for the Datadog provider
resource `datadog_security_monitoring_rule`. Returns a ZIP archive containing one Terraform
file per rule. You can convert rules for the following types:
- App and API Protection
- Cloud SIEM (log detection and signal correlation)
- Workload Protection

## Request body

- SecurityMonitoringRuleConvertBulkPayload — Payload for bulk converting security monitoring rules to Terraform.
  - `data` SecurityMonitoringRuleConvertBulkData, required — Data for bulk converting security monitoring rules to Terraform.
    - `attributes` SecurityMonitoringRuleConvertBulkAttributes, required — Attributes for bulk converting security monitoring rules to Terraform.
      - `ruleIds` string[], required — List of rule IDs to convert. Each rule will be included in the resulting ZIP file as a separate Terraform file.
    - `id` string — Request ID.
    - `type` 'security_monitoring_rules_convert_bulk', required — The type of the resource.

## Response `200`

OK

## Other responses

- `400` — Bad Request
- `403` — Not Authorized
- `404` — Not Found
- `429` — Too many requests

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