Inductive Automation
Inductive Automation is the developer of Ignition, an industrial application platform used for SCADA, HMI, MES, and IIoT deployments across manufacturing, utilities, and infrastructure. Ignition 8.3 exposes an OpenAPI-compliant REST API through its Gateway that provides programmatic access to configuration, tags, projects, and modules, enabling containerized and cloud-native industrial automation deployments.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Inductive Automation the way a machine reads it — 104 machine-readable artifacts across 88 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 — Inductive Automation scores 47.9/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 41/100 (agent aware). 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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Inductive Automation
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Inductive Automation. 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 88
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.
Ignition Gateway REST API
The Ignition Gateway REST API (available in Ignition 8.3+) provides an OpenAPI- compliant HTTP interface to Gateway configuration resources including tags, projects, modules, de...
Inductive Automation access-control API
Access control configuration
Inductive Automation agent-group API
EAM agent group management
Inductive Automation agent-management API
EAM agent management
Inductive Automation alarm-journal-resources API
Alarm journal resource management
Inductive Automation alarm-notification-profile API
Alarm notification profile management
Inductive Automation api-token API
API token authentication
Inductive Automation audit API
Audit log access
Inductive Automation call-script API
Script invocation endpoints
Inductive Automation certificate-management API
TLS/SSL certificate management
Inductive Automation charts-info API
Charts module information
Inductive Automation client-pki-certificate-management API
Client PKI certificate management
Inductive Automation config-alarm API
Alarm configuration resources
Inductive Automation config-api-token API
API token configuration
Inductive Automation config-audit-profiles API
Audit profile configuration
Inductive Automation config-databases API
Database connection configuration
Inductive Automation config-edge-system-properties API
Edge system properties
Inductive Automation config-email-profile API
Email profile configuration
Inductive Automation config-gateway-network API
Gateway network configuration
Inductive Automation config-identity-provider API
Identity provider configuration
Inductive Automation config-keyboard-layouts API
Keyboard layout configuration
Inductive Automation config-local-system-properties API
Local system properties
Inductive Automation config-management API
General configuration management
Inductive Automation config-metrics-dashboard API
Metrics dashboard configuration
Inductive Automation config-oauth2-client API
OAuth2 client configuration
Inductive Automation config-perspective-branding API
Perspective module branding configuration
Inductive Automation config-perspective-fonts API
Perspective font configuration
Inductive Automation config-perspective-icons API
Perspective icon library configuration
Inductive Automation config-perspective-themes API
Perspective theme configuration
Inductive Automation config-secret-provider API
Secret provider configuration
Inductive Automation config-security-levels API
Security zone level configuration
Inductive Automation config-security-properties API
Security properties configuration
Inductive Automation config-security-zone API
Security zone configuration
Inductive Automation config-store-forward API
Store-and-forward configuration
Inductive Automation config-system-properties API
System properties configuration
Inductive Automation config-tag-provider API
Tag provider configuration
Inductive Automation config-translations API
Translation configuration
Inductive Automation config-user-source API
User source configuration
Inductive Automation data-syncs API
Data synchronization
Inductive Automation designer-sessions API
Designer session management
Inductive Automation device API
Device connection management
Inductive Automation eam-tasks API
Enterprise Administration Module task management
Inductive Automation encryption API
Encryption utilities
Inductive Automation entity API
Generic entity management
Inductive Automation event-thresholds API
Event threshold configuration
Inductive Automation executors API
Thread pool executor management
Inductive Automation gateway-backups API
Gateway backup and restore
Inductive Automation gateway-info API
Gateway information
Inductive Automation gateway-network API
Gateway network topology
Inductive Automation gateway-scripts API
Gateway script execution
Inductive Automation general-alarm-settings API
General alarm settings
Inductive Automation general API
The general API from Inductive Automation — 3 operation(s) for general.
Inductive Automation groups-info API
User group information
Inductive Automation historian-config API
Tag historian configuration
Inductive Automation launcher API
Ignition Launcher operations
Inductive Automation license-activation API
License activation management
Inductive Automation license-management API
License management operations
Inductive Automation license-status API
License status information
Inductive Automation local devices API
Local device management
Inductive Automation logging API
Logging configuration
Inductive Automation managed-tag-provider API
Managed tag provider operations
Inductive Automation module-certificate API
Module certificate management
Inductive Automation module-eula API
Module EULA acceptance
Inductive Automation module-settings API
Module settings configuration
Inductive Automation modules API
Installed module management
Inductive Automation opc connection API
OPC connection management
Inductive Automation overview API
Gateway overview and status
Inductive Automation perspective-sessions API
Perspective module session management
Inductive Automation pipeline-status API
Alarm notification pipeline status
Inductive Automation projects API
Ignition project management
Inductive Automation quickstart API
Quick-start setup wizard
Inductive Automation redundancy API
Gateway redundancy configuration
Inductive Automation remote-upgrade API
Remote Gateway upgrade operations
Inductive Automation reports-info API
Reporting module information
Inductive Automation restart-tasks API
Gateway restart task management
Inductive Automation roster-config API
Alarm roster configuration
Inductive Automation running-scripts API
Running script monitoring
Inductive Automation secret-providers API
Secret provider management
Inductive Automation server API
OPC UA server configuration
Inductive Automation server-pki-certificate-management API
Server PKI certificate management
Inductive Automation service-connectors API
Service connector configuration
Inductive Automation sfc-config API
Sequential Function Chart configuration
Inductive Automation storage API
Storage configuration
Inductive Automation streams-info API
Data stream information
Inductive Automation system-performance API
System performance metrics
Inductive Automation thread-diagnostics API
JVM thread diagnostics
Inductive Automation user-management-scim API
SCIM 2.0 user and group management
Inductive Automation vision-sessions API
Vision module client sessions
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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.
Inductive Automation Context
JSON-LDSpectral 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.
Inductive Automation API Rules
SPECTRALInductive Automation API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 3
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.
JSON Structure 2
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Inductive Automation Gateway Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREInductive Automation Resource Record Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 3
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
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.
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Inductive Automation — 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 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
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