Cisco Umbrella Application Categories API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Cisco Umbrella App Discovery Application Categories API
  description: 'The App Discovery API provides an overall view of application and protocol activity in your environment

    and the potential risk indicated by this network traffic.'
  version: 2.0.2
  contact:
    name: Cloud Security Developer Community
  x-provenance:
    method: harvested
    authored_by: Cisco Umbrella
    harvested_by: API Evangelist
    harvested_on: '2026-08-19'
    first_party: true
    provider_published: true
    source_host: pubhub.devnetcloud.com
    note: 26 first-party OpenAPI 3.0 documents (256 operations) listed by Cisco's own docs-nav config and fetched anonymously. Byte-identity reconfirmed 2026-08-19 by SHA-256 against the live source.
  x-evidence:
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    url: https://pubhub.devnetcloud.com/media/cloud-security-apis-in-eft/docs/umbrella-config.json
  - type: source
    url: https://developer.cisco.com/docs/cloud-security/
servers:
- url: https://api.umbrella.com/{basePath}
  variables:
    basePath:
      default: reports/v2
tags:
- name: Application Categories
paths:
  /appDiscovery/applicationCategories:
    get:
      tags:
      - Application Categories
      summary: List Application Categories
      description: List all application categories.
      operationId: getApplicationCategories
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/limit'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/offset'
      security:
      - oauthFlow:
        - reports.appDiscovery:read
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          headers:
            Link:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/Link'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApplicationCategoryList'
              example:
                items:
                - name: Security
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/InvalidRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ServerError'
components:
  headers:
    Link:
      schema:
        type: string
      description: 'Links to related resources, in the format defined by

        [RFC 5988](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5988#section-5).

        If there is a next page, this header includes a link with relation type

        `next` to the next page.'
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: Unauthorized request
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    InvalidRequest:
      description: Invalid request
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    ServerError:
      description: Server error
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    Forbidden:
      description: Forbidden
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  parameters:
    offset:
      in: query
      name: offset
      schema:
        type: integer
      description: The number of items to skip before starting to collect the result set.
    limit:
      in: query
      name: limit
      schema:
        type: integer
        minimum: 1
        maximum: 100
      description: The maximum number of items to return in the collection.
  schemas:
    Error:
      type: object
      description: The error message returned in the response.
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
    ApplicationCategory:
      type: object
      description: The application category information.
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
          description: The name of the application category.
          example: Security
      example:
        name: Security
    ApplicationCategoryList:
      type: object
      description: The list of application categories.
      properties:
        items:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApplicationCategory'
      example:
        items:
        - name: Security
  securitySchemes:
    oauthFlow:
      type: oauth2
      description: client credential flow
      flows:
        clientCredentials:
          tokenUrl: https://api.umbrella.com/auth/v2/token
          scopes:
            reports.appDiscovery:write: Write reports app discovery
            reports.appDiscovery:read: Read reports app discovery
x-provenance:
  method: harvested
  first_party: true
  harvested: '2026-08-19'
  source: https://pubhub.devnetcloud.com/media/cloud-security-apis-in-eft/docs/reference/reports/app-discovery.yaml
  publisher: Cisco Systems, Inc. (Cisco DevNet Cloud Security docs)
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  fetched: '2026-08-19'
  url: https://pubhub.devnetcloud.com/media/cloud-security-apis-in-eft/docs/reference/reports/app-discovery.yaml
  http_status: 200
  docs: https://developer.cisco.com/docs/cloud-security/