Cognee health API

Service health probes

OpenAPI Specification

cognee-health-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Cognee REST agents health API
  description: 'The Cognee REST API provides endpoints for the complete AI memory lifecycle, including data ingestion, knowledge graph construction, and semantic retrieval. Core endpoints cover adding raw text or documents, triggering the cognify pipeline that extracts entities and relationships via LLM, executing multi-mode search queries, managing datasets, and creating agent identities. The API uses X-Api-Key header authentication for cloud deployments and Bearer token auth for self-hosted instances.

    '
  version: 1.0.0
  contact:
    name: Cognee Support
    url: https://docs.cognee.ai/api-reference/introduction
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/blob/main/LICENSE
servers:
- url: https://api.cognee.ai
  description: Cognee Cloud (managed)
- url: http://localhost:8000
  description: Self-hosted (Docker / local)
security:
- BearerAuth: []
- ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:
- name: health
  description: Service health probes
paths:
  /api/v1/health:
    get:
      operationId: healthCheck
      summary: Liveness/readiness health check
      description: 'Basic health probe returning system readiness and version. Returns 503 when the service is unhealthy.

        '
      tags:
      - health
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Service is healthy and ready
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HealthResponse'
        '503':
          description: Service is not ready
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HealthResponse'
  /api/v1/health/detailed:
    get:
      operationId: detailedHealthCheck
      summary: Detailed health check with component status
      description: 'Comprehensive health status including per-component details. Returns 503 when any component is unhealthy or degraded.

        '
      tags:
      - health
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Detailed health status
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
        '503':
          description: One or more components unhealthy
components:
  schemas:
    HealthResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        status:
          type: string
          enum:
          - ready
          - not ready
        health:
          type: string
          enum:
          - healthy
          - unhealthy
          - degraded
        version:
          type: string
      required:
      - status
      - health
  securitySchemes:
    BearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
      description: Bearer token authentication for self-hosted instances
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-Api-Key
      description: API key authentication for Cognee Cloud deployments
externalDocs:
  description: Cognee API Reference
  url: https://docs.cognee.ai/api-reference/introduction