Netdata
Netdata is a real-time infrastructure monitoring and observability platform that collects per-second metrics from physical servers, virtual machines, cloud deployments, Kubernetes clusters, and IoT devices. It provides a REST API for querying metrics, alerts, and configuration on individual nodes (Agent API) as well as a Cloud API for programmatic access to Netdata Cloud resources including spaces, rooms, and nodes across distributed infrastructure. Authentication uses Bearer tokens generated from the Netdata Cloud account settings, with scopes controlling access to agent UI, Grafana plugin, MCP, and full API access. The platform includes AI-powered troubleshooting, role-based access control, and supports both cloud-hosted and on-premises deployments.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Netdata the way a machine reads it — 36 machine-readable artifacts across 20 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 — Netdata scores 61.4/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (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.
How we profile Netdata
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Netdata. 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 20
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.
Netdata Agent API
The Netdata Agent REST API provides access to metrics, alerts, and configuration on individual monitoring nodes. It supports v1, v2, and v3 endpoints for querying time-series da...
Netdata alerts API
Everything related to alerts
Netdata authentication API
The authentication API from Netdata — 5 operation(s) for authentication.
Netdata badges API
Everything related to dynamic badges based on metric data
Netdata charts API
Everything related to chart instances - DO NOT USE IN NEW CODE - use contexts instead
Netdata claiming API
The claiming API from Netdata — 2 operation(s) for claiming.
Netdata config API
The config API from Netdata — 1 operation(s) for config.
Netdata contexts API
Everything related contexts - in new code, use this instead of charts
Netdata data API
Everything related to data queries
Netdata dyncfg API
The dyncfg API from Netdata — 1 operation(s) for dyncfg.
Netdata functions API
Everything related to functions
Netdata management API
Everything related to managing netdata Agents
Netdata nodes API
Everything related to monitored nodes
Netdata registry API
The registry API from Netdata — 1 operation(s) for registry.
Netdata settings API
The settings API from Netdata — 1 operation(s) for settings.
Netdata streaming API
The streaming API from Netdata — 1 operation(s) for streaming.
Netdata variables API
The variables API from Netdata — 1 operation(s) for variables.
Netdata versions API
The versions API from Netdata — 1 operation(s) for versions.
Netdata webrtc API
The webrtc API from Netdata — 2 operation(s) for webrtc.
Netdata weights API
Everything related to scoring / weighting metrics
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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.
Netdata Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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.
Netdata Finops
FINOPSSemantic 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.
Netdata Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
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.
Netdata 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.
Examples 4
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.
Netdata Alerts Example
EXAMPLENetdata Charts List Example
EXAMPLENetdata Data Query Example
EXAMPLENetdata Node Info Example
EXAMPLESecurity Posture 3
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 Netdata — 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.
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
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
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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