# Sensu Go Backend REST API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/sensu/sensu-go-backend-rest-api/  
**Provider:** Sensu — https://apis.io/providers/sensu/  
**Base URL:** https://docs.sensu.io/sensu-go/latest/api/  
**Documentation:** https://docs.sensu.io/sensu-go/latest/api/

Sensu Go Backend REST API is published by [Sensu](https://apis.io/providers/sensu/) on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Monitoring, Observability, and REST. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, authentication docs, and a changelog.

The Sensu Go backend REST API for managing observability resources: checks, events, entities, filters, handlers, mutators, hooks, pipelines, assets, silences, namespaces, roles, role bindings, cluster roles, API keys, and users. Core endpoints follow /api/core/v2/namespaces/<namespace>; enterprise endpoints follow /api/enterprise/<group>/v2. Authenticates with JWT access tokens (via /auth) or persistent API keys (Authorization: Key <uuid>). Supports limit/continue pagination, labelSelector/fieldSelector filtering, and Etag conditional requests.

## Machine-readable artifacts (13)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.sensu.io/sensu-go/latest/
- **APIReference** — https://docs.sensu.io/sensu-go/latest/api/
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sensu/refs/heads/main/authentication/sensu-authentication.yml
- **CLI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sensu/refs/heads/main/cli/sensu-cli.yml
- **Packages** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sensu/refs/heads/main/packages/sensu-packages.yml
- **SDKs** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sensu/refs/heads/main/packages/sensu-packages.yml
- **Conventions** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sensu/refs/heads/main/conventions/sensu-conventions.yml
- **Lifecycle** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sensu/refs/heads/main/lifecycle/sensu-lifecycle.yml
- **ChangeLog** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sensu/refs/heads/main/changelog/sensu-changelog.yml
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sensu/refs/heads/main/conformance/sensu-conformance.yml
- **DataModel** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sensu/refs/heads/main/data-model/sensu-data-model.yml
- **X-MCPServerCandidate** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sensu/refs/heads/main/mcp/sensu-mcp.yml
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sensu/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Tags

Monitoring, Observability, REST

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