# Vitess VTCtld API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/vitess/vtctld-api/  
**Provider:** Vitess — https://apis.io/providers/vitess/  
**Documentation:** https://vitess.io/docs/reference/programs/vtctld/

Vitess VTCtld API is one of 4 APIs that [Vitess](https://apis.io/providers/vitess/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Administration, Cluster Management, gRPC, and Topology. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an API reference.

VTCtld is the Vitess topology management daemon that exposes a gRPC and HTTP API for administrative operations on the cluster topology including creating and managing keyspaces, shards, tablets, and executing maintenance operations such as planned reparents and emergency reparents.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://vitess.io/docs/reference/programs/vtctld/
- **Reference** — https://vitess.io/docs/reference/vtctl/

## Other Vitess APIs (3)

- [Vitess VTGate API](https://apis.io/apis/vitess/vtgate-api/)
- [Vitess VTAdmin API](https://apis.io/apis/vitess/vtadmin-api/)
- [Vitess VReplication API](https://apis.io/apis/vitess/vreplication-api/)

## Tags

Administration, Cluster Management, gRPC, Topology

---

Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/vitess/vtctld-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/vitess/.