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Sysdig

Sysdig is a cloud and container security platform that provides runtime threat detection, vulnerability management, cloud security posture management (CSPM), compliance automation, and observability for containers, Kubernetes, and cloud environments. Sysdig Monitor offers full-stack monitoring and alerting while Sysdig Secure delivers runtime security, vulnerability scanning, policy enforcement, incident response, and compliance reporting.

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 Sysdig the way a machine reads it — 44 machine-readable artifacts across 13 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 — Sysdig scores 68.5/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 60/100 (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 — 68.5/100 · strong
Contract Quality 15.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.9 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 60/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 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 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Sysdig

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Sysdig. 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 13

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.

Sysdig Activity Audit API

Audit trail of user and system activities

Sysdig Alerts API

Manage monitoring alerts and alert notifications

Sysdig Compliance API

Compliance checks and reporting

Sysdig Dashboards API

Create and manage monitoring dashboards

Sysdig Events API

Retrieve and create custom events

Sysdig Image Scanning API

Scan container images for vulnerabilities

Sysdig Metrics API

Query and retrieve metrics data

Sysdig Notification Channels API

Configure notification channels for alerts

Sysdig Policies API

Manage runtime security policies

Sysdig Rules API

Manage Falco security rules

Sysdig SBOM API

Software Bill of Materials management

Sysdig Teams API

Manage teams and team memberships

Sysdig Vulnerabilities API

Manage vulnerability findings and scanning results

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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).

Sysdig Monitor API

OPEN COLLECTION

Sysdig Secure API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arazzo Workflows 13

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Sysdig Author Falco Rule and Attach to Policy

Create a custom Falco rule, then create a policy that references it.

ARAZZO

Sysdig Build Metric Dashboard

Discover a metric, confirm its descriptor, and create a dashboard for it.

ARAZZO

Sysdig Clone Dashboard

Read a source dashboard and create a copy of it under a new name.

ARAZZO

Sysdig Compliance Task Results

List compliance tasks, pick one, and pull its control results.

ARAZZO

Sysdig Create Alert With Notification Channel

Create a notification channel, then create an alert that routes to it.

ARAZZO

Sysdig Create Policy and Verify

Create a runtime security policy then read it back to confirm it persisted.

ARAZZO

Sysdig Disable Alert

List alerts, find one by name, and disable it via update.

ARAZZO

Sysdig Investigate Secure Event

List secure runtime events, branch on a match, and pull the activity audit.

ARAZZO

Sysdig Provision Team

Create a team, verify it, and scope a notification channel for it.

ARAZZO

Sysdig Publish Event and Confirm

Post a custom event to Monitor, then list events to confirm it landed.

ARAZZO

Sysdig Scan Image and Poll Results

Trigger an image scan, poll until analysis completes, then read findings.

ARAZZO

Sysdig Scanned Image Inventory Review

List scanned images, pick the first, and pull its vulnerabilities and SBOM.

ARAZZO

Sysdig Triage Image Vulnerabilities

List vulnerability results, drill into one image, and pull its SBOM.

ARAZZO

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

MCP Server

MCP SERVER

GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Sysdig GraphQL API

Sysdig provides cloud-native security and observability for Kubernetes, containers, and cloud. The API covers runtime threat detection, compliance posture management, vulnerabil...

GRAPHQL

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.

Sysdig Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

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.

Sysdig 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.

Sysdig Context

31 classes · 0 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.

Sysdig API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Sysdig API Rules

10 rules · 4 errors · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

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.

Sysdig Alert

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Sysdig Vulnerability

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

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.

Sysdig Alert Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

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 2

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.

Sysdig Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Sysdig Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

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.

Sysdig Agentic Access

43 operations · 21 acting

43 operations · 21 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Sysdig — 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 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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