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Cockroach Labs

Cockroach Labs is the New York-based software company that builds CockroachDB, a cloud-native, distributed, PostgreSQL-compatible SQL database. CockroachDB is offered as Cockroach Labs' fully managed cloud service (Basic, Standard, and Advanced plans) and as self-hosted software. The company provides two primary developer APIs: the CockroachDB Cloud API for managing the lifecycle of cloud-hosted clusters, and the CockroachDB Cluster API exposed by every node for cluster health, monitoring, and operational status. CockroachDB is used in production by banking, retail, gaming, and media companies including Bose, Hard Rock Digital, DoorDash, and Netflix.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Cockroach Labs the way a machine reads it — 64 machine-readable artifacts across 26 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Cockroach Labs scores 66.1/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 53/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 66.1/100 · strong
Contract Quality 16.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 6.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 15.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.2 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 53/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Cockroach Labs

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Cockroach Labs. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 26

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Cockroach Labs APIKeys API

Manage API keys for programmatic access, including creation, retrieval, listing, updating, and deletion.

Cockroach Labs AuditLogs API

Retrieve audit log events for the organization to support compliance and security investigations.

Cockroach Labs Auth API

Authenticate to the Cluster API by creating and terminating API sessions. Session tokens are passed via the X-Cockroach-API-Session header on subsequent requests.

Cockroach Labs BackupRestore API

Manage cluster backups, backup configurations, and restore operations for CockroachDB clusters.

Cockroach Labs Billing API

Retrieve invoices and billing information for the CockroachDB Cloud organization.

Cockroach Labs Clusters API

Create, list, retrieve, update, and delete CockroachDB Serverless and Dedicated clusters within an organization.

Cockroach Labs CMEK API

Manage customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) for encrypting cluster data at rest using customer-controlled keys.

Cockroach Labs Databases API

Manage databases within a CockroachDB cluster, including creation, listing, updating, and deletion.

Cockroach Labs EgressRules API

Configure egress traffic rules and egress private endpoints for outbound cluster network traffic.

Cockroach Labs Folders API

Organize clusters and other resources into hierarchical folder structures within the organization.

Cockroach Labs Health API

Check the health and readiness of individual CockroachDB nodes. The health endpoint can report whether the node is live and fully operational for accepting SQL connections.

Cockroach Labs IPAllowlists API

Configure IP allowlist entries to control network access to a cluster.

Cockroach Labs JWTIssuers API

Manage JWT issuer configurations for external identity provider integrations.

Cockroach Labs LogExport API

Configure log export to external destinations such as AWS CloudWatch or GCP Cloud Logging.

Cockroach Labs MaintenanceWindows API

Configure maintenance windows and blackout periods for cluster upgrade scheduling.

Cockroach Labs MetricExport API

Configure metric export integrations including AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, and Prometheus.

Cockroach Labs Nodes API

Retrieve information about all nodes in the cluster, including their status, address, locality, and operational metrics.

Cockroach Labs Organizations API

Retrieve information about the caller's CockroachDB Cloud organization.

Cockroach Labs PrivateEndpoints API

Manage private endpoint services and connections for secure VPC-level access to clusters.

Cockroach Labs Ranges API

List and inspect range information for the cluster, including hot ranges by node and detailed information for specific range IDs.

Cockroach Labs RoleManagement API

Manage role-based access control, including assigning and removing roles for users across organization, folder, and cluster scopes.

Cockroach Labs Rules API

Retrieve alerting rules templates for use with Prometheus-compatible alerting systems.

Cockroach Labs ServiceAccounts API

Manage service accounts used for machine-to-machine authentication within the organization.

Cockroach Labs Sessions API

List active SQL sessions across all nodes of the cluster, with optional filtering by username.

Cockroach Labs SQLUsers API

Manage SQL users for a cluster, including creating users, listing users, and updating SQL user passwords.

Cockroach Labs VersionDeferral API

Manage cluster version deferral policies to delay automatic CockroachDB version upgrades.

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Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

CockroachDB Cloud API

OPEN COLLECTION

CockroachDB Cluster API

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 24

An agent skill packages the how-to for driving these APIs from an assistant — the prompts, the sequence, the guardrails — so the knowledge to use the API travels with it.

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

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Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Cockroach Labs Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Cockroach Labs Context

0 classes · 14 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Cockroach Labs API Rules

6 rules · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

Cockroach Labs API Rules

10 rules · 3 errors · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

CockroachDB Cluster

24 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Cockroach Labs Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Cockroach Labs Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Cockroach Labs Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

Cockroach Labs Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, FIPS 140

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Cockroach Labs Agentic Access

98 operations · 51 acting · 5 human-in-the-loop

98 operations · 51 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Cockroach Labs — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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