# Rapid7 Engine Groups API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/rapid7/rapid7-engine-groups-api/  
**Provider:** Rapid7 — https://apis.io/providers/rapid7/  
**Base URL:** https://us.api.insight.rapid7.com/vm/v4  
**Documentation:** https://help.rapid7.com/insightvm/en-us/api/api.html

Rapid7 Engine Groups API is one of 50 APIs that [Rapid7](https://apis.io/providers/rapid7/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Engine Groups. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.

An Engine Group is a resource which defines a container for a logical grouping of Engines and therefore the purpose of assigning Scans to one of those Engines. Any created Engine Group can contain 0 or more Engines that are strictly hosted within an On-Premise environment. Any Engine which isn't assigned to an explicitly-defined Engine Group inherently belongs to the 'Default' Engine Group (the Default Engine Group cannot be explicitly created, modified, deleted or referenced, it is purely conceptual). Any Scans submitted which use a Scan Config with an explicit assignment to an Engine Group will follow the following rules:<ul><li>If the Engine Group contains only <code>OFFLINE</code> Engines, the scan will immediately fail</li><li>If the Engine Group contains at least 1 Engine which isn't <code>OFFLINE</code>, the scan will wait to be acquired</li></ul>

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rapid7/refs/heads/main/openapi/rapid7-engine-groups-api-openapi.yml

## Other Rapid7 APIs (12)

- [Rapid7 InsightVM Cloud API](https://apis.io/apis/rapid7/insightvm-api/)
- [Rapid7 Insight Platform API](https://apis.io/apis/rapid7/insight-platform-api/)
- [Rapid7 InsightIDR API](https://apis.io/apis/rapid7/insightidr-api/)
- [Rapid7 Accounts API](https://apis.io/apis/rapid7/rapid7-accounts-api/)
- [Rapid7 Administration API](https://apis.io/apis/rapid7/rapid7-administration-api/)
- [Rapid7 Apps API](https://apis.io/apis/rapid7/rapid7-apps-api/)
- [Rapid7 Asset API](https://apis.io/apis/rapid7/rapid7-asset-api/)
- [Rapid7 Asset Discovery API](https://apis.io/apis/rapid7/rapid7-asset-discovery-api/)
- [Rapid7 Asset Group API](https://apis.io/apis/rapid7/rapid7-asset-group-api/)
- [Rapid7 Assets API](https://apis.io/apis/rapid7/rapid7-assets-api/)
- [Rapid7 Attachments API](https://apis.io/apis/rapid7/rapid7-attachments-api/)
- [Rapid7 Attack Templates API](https://apis.io/apis/rapid7/rapid7-attack-templates-api/)

## Tags

Engine Groups

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