Apache Flink
Apache Flink is a framework and distributed processing engine for stateful computations over unbounded and bounded data streams. It provides a REST API for job management, cluster operations, metrics collection, and checkpoint management for real-time streaming and batch processing workloads.
Apache Flink publishes 9 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Cluster API, Config API, Datasets API, and 6 more. Tagged areas include Apache, Batch Processing, Big Data, Open Source, and Real-Time Analytics.
The Apache Flink catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
Apache Flink’s developer surface includes getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, training material, Stack Overflow tag, and 8 more developer resources.
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APIs 10
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Apache Flink Monitoring API
Monitoring REST API for accessing job metrics, checkpoints, and cluster statistics for Apache Flink deployments.
Apache Flink Cluster API
The Cluster API from Apache Flink — 1 operation(s) for cluster.
Apache Flink Config API
The Config API from Apache Flink — 1 operation(s) for config.
Apache Flink Datasets API
The Datasets API from Apache Flink — 3 operation(s) for datasets.
Apache Flink Jars API
The Jars API from Apache Flink — 5 operation(s) for jars.
Apache Flink Jobmanager API
The Jobmanager API from Apache Flink — 5 operation(s) for jobmanager.
Apache Flink Jobs API
The Jobs API from Apache Flink — 42 operation(s) for jobs.
Apache Flink Overview API
The Overview API from Apache Flink — 1 operation(s) for overview.
Apache Flink Savepoint Disposal API
The Savepoint Disposal API from Apache Flink — 2 operation(s) for savepoint disposal.
Apache Flink Taskmanagers API
The Taskmanagers API from Apache Flink — 6 operation(s) for taskmanagers.
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Pricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Apache Flink Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Apache Flink Finops
FINOPSFeatures 9
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Unified Stream and Batch Processing
Single engine for both unbounded stream processing and bounded batch workloads with a unified API.
Stateful Computations
Rich stateful processing with managed state backends (RocksDB, heap), exactly-once guarantees, and state versioning.
Exactly-Once Semantics
End-to-end exactly-once processing guarantees with distributed snapshots and transactional sinks.
Event Time Processing
Native event-time support with watermarks for out-of-order event handling in streaming workloads.
Checkpointing and Savepoints
Automatic fault-tolerance via checkpointing and manual savepoints for job migration and upgrades.
High Availability
JobManager HA via ZooKeeper or Kubernetes for zero-downtime cluster operations.
Scalable Architecture
Horizontally scalable TaskManagers with fine-grained resource management and dynamic slot allocation.
REST API Management
Comprehensive REST API for job submission, monitoring, metrics collection, and cluster administration.
SQL and Table API
Declarative SQL and Table API for streaming analytics with connector ecosystem support.
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Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Apache Flink Rest Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Apache Flink API Rules
SPECTRALApache Flink API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 132
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
AggregatedMetricsResponseBody
JSON SCHEMAAggregatedTaskDetailsInfo
JSON SCHEMAAggregationMode
JSON SCHEMAApplicationStatus
JSON SCHEMAAsynchronousOperationInfo
JSON SCHEMAAsynchronousOperationResult
JSON SCHEMACheckpointAlignment
JSON SCHEMACheckpointAlignmentSummary
JSON SCHEMACheckpointConfigInfo
JSON SCHEMACheckpointDuration
JSON SCHEMACheckpointDurationSummary
JSON SCHEMACheckpointInfo
JSON SCHEMACheckpointStatistics
JSON SCHEMACheckpointStatisticsSummary
JSON SCHEMACheckpointStatsStatus
JSON SCHEMACheckpointTriggerRequestBody
JSON SCHEMACheckpointType
JSON SCHEMACheckpointingStatistics
JSON SCHEMAClusterDataSetEntry
JSON SCHEMAClusterDataSetListResponseBody
JSON SCHEMAClusterOverviewWithVersion
JSON SCHEMACompletedCheckpointStatistics
JSON SCHEMACompletedSubtaskCheckpointStatistics
JSON SCHEMAConfigurationInfoEntry
JSON SCHEMAConfigurationInfo
JSON SCHEMACounts
JSON SCHEMADashboardConfiguration
JSON SCHEMAEnvironmentInfo
JSON SCHEMAExceptionInfo
JSON SCHEMAExecutionConfigInfo
JSON SCHEMAExecutionState
JSON SCHEMAExternalizedCheckpointInfo
JSON SCHEMAFailedCheckpointStatistics
JSON SCHEMAFailureLabel
JSON SCHEMAFeatures
JSON SCHEMAGarbageCollectorInfo
JSON SCHEMAHardwareDescription
JSON SCHEMAId
JSON SCHEMAIntermediateDataSetID
JSON SCHEMAIOMetricsInfo
JSON SCHEMAJarEntryInfo
JSON SCHEMAJarFileInfo
JSON SCHEMAJarListInfo
JSON SCHEMAJarPlanRequestBody
JSON SCHEMAJarRunRequestBody
JSON SCHEMAJarRunResponseBody
JSON SCHEMAJarUploadResponseBody
JSON SCHEMAJobAccumulator
JSON SCHEMAJobAccumulatorsInfo
JSON SCHEMAJobClientHeartbeatRequestBody
JSON SCHEMAJobConfigInfo
JSON SCHEMAJobDetailsInfo
JSON SCHEMAJobDetails
JSON SCHEMAJobDetailsVertexInfo
JSON SCHEMAJobExceptionHistory
JSON SCHEMAJobExceptionsInfoWithHistory
JSON SCHEMAJobExecutionResultResponseBody
JSON SCHEMAJobID
JSON SCHEMAJobIdWithStatus
JSON SCHEMAJobIdsWithStatusOverview
JSON SCHEMAJobPlanInfo
JSON SCHEMAJobResourceRequirementsBody
JSON SCHEMAJobResult
JSON SCHEMAJobStatusInfo
JSON SCHEMAJobStatus
JSON SCHEMAJobType
JSON SCHEMAJobVertexAccumulatorsInfo
JSON SCHEMAJobVertexBackPressureInfo
JSON SCHEMAJobVertexDetailsInfo
JSON SCHEMAJobVertexID
JSON SCHEMAJobVertexResourceRequirements
JSON SCHEMAJobVertexTaskManagerInfo
JSON SCHEMAJobVertexTaskManagersInfo
JSON SCHEMAJVMInfo
JSON SCHEMALatestCheckpoints
JSON SCHEMALogInfo
JSON SCHEMALogListInfo
JSON SCHEMALogUrlResponse
JSON SCHEMAMetricCollectionResponseBody
JSON SCHEMAMetric
JSON SCHEMAMultipleJobsDetails
JSON SCHEMANode
JSON SCHEMAParallelism
JSON SCHEMAPendingCheckpointStatistics
JSON SCHEMAPendingSubtaskCheckpointStatistics
JSON SCHEMAProcessingMode
JSON SCHEMAQueueStatus
JSON SCHEMARawJson
JSON SCHEMARecoveryClaimMode
JSON SCHEMAResourceID
JSON SCHEMAResourceProfileInfo
JSON SCHEMARestAPICheckpointType
JSON SCHEMARestoredCheckpointStatistics
JSON SCHEMARootExceptionInfo
JSON SCHEMASavepointDisposalRequest
JSON SCHEMASavepointFormatType
JSON SCHEMASavepointInfo
JSON SCHEMASavepointTriggerRequestBody
JSON SCHEMASerializedThrowable
JSON SCHEMASerializedValueOptionalFailureObject
JSON SCHEMASlotInfo
JSON SCHEMASlotSharingGroupId
JSON SCHEMAStatsSummaryDto
JSON SCHEMAStopWithSavepointRequestBody
JSON SCHEMASubtaskAccumulatorsInfo
JSON SCHEMASubtaskBackPressureInfo
JSON SCHEMASubtaskCheckpointStatistics
JSON SCHEMASubtaskExecutionAttemptAccumulatorsInfo
JSON SCHEMASubtaskExecutionAttemptDetailsInfo
JSON SCHEMASubtaskTimeInfo
JSON SCHEMASubtasksAllAccumulatorsInfo
JSON SCHEMASubtasksTimesInfo
JSON SCHEMATaskCheckpointStatistics
JSON SCHEMATaskCheckpointStatisticsWithSubtaskDetails
JSON SCHEMATaskExecutorMemoryConfiguration
JSON SCHEMATaskManagerDetailsInfo
JSON SCHEMATaskManagerInfo
JSON SCHEMATaskManagerMetricsInfo
JSON SCHEMATaskManagersInfo
JSON SCHEMATerminationMode
JSON SCHEMAThreadDumpInfo
JSON SCHEMAThreadInfo
JSON SCHEMAThreadStates
JSON SCHEMATriggerId
JSON SCHEMATriggerResponse
JSON SCHEMAUploadStatus
JSON SCHEMAUserAccumulator
JSON SCHEMAUserTaskAccumulator
JSON SCHEMAVertexBackPressureLevel
JSON SCHEMAVertexBackPressureStatus
JSON SCHEMAVertexFlameGraph
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JSON Structure 132
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Flink Rest Aggregated Metrics Response Body Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Aggregated Task Details Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Aggregation Mode Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Application Status Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Asynchronous Operation Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Asynchronous Operation Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Checkpoint Alignment Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Checkpoint Alignment Summary Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Checkpoint Config Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Checkpoint Duration Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Checkpoint Duration Summary Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Checkpoint Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Checkpoint Statistics Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Checkpoint Statistics Summary Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Checkpoint Stats Status Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Checkpoint Trigger Request Body Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Checkpoint Type Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Checkpointing Statistics Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Cluster Data Set Entry Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Cluster Data Set List Response Body Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Cluster Overview With Version Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Completed Checkpoint Statistics Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Configuration Info Entry Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Configuration Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Counts Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Dashboard Configuration Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Environment Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Exception Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Execution Config Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Execution State Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Externalized Checkpoint Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Failed Checkpoint Statistics Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Failure Label Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Features Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Garbage Collector Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Hardware Description Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Id Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Intermediate Data Set Id Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Io Metrics Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Jar Entry Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Jar File Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Jar List Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Jar Plan Request Body Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Jar Run Request Body Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Jar Run Response Body Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Jar Upload Response Body Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Job Accumulator Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Job Accumulators Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Job Client Heartbeat Request Body Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Job Config Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Job Details Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Job Details Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Job Details Vertex Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Job Exception History Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Job Exceptions Info With History Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Job Execution Result Response Body Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Job Id Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Job Id With Status Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Job Ids With Status Overview Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Job Plan Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Job Resource Requirements Body Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Job Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Job Status Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Job Status Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Job Type Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Job Vertex Accumulators Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Job Vertex Back Pressure Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Job Vertex Details Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Job Vertex Id Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Job Vertex Resource Requirements Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Job Vertex Task Manager Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Job Vertex Task Managers Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Jvm Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Latest Checkpoints Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Log Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Log List Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Log Url Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Metric Collection Response Body Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Metric Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Multiple Jobs Details Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Node Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Parallelism Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Pending Checkpoint Statistics Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Processing Mode Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Queue Status Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Raw Json Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Recovery Claim Mode Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Resource Id Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Resource Profile Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Rest Api Checkpoint Type Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Restored Checkpoint Statistics Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Root Exception Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Savepoint Disposal Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Savepoint Format Type Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Savepoint Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Savepoint Trigger Request Body Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Serialized Throwable Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Slot Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Slot Sharing Group Id Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Stats Summary Dto Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Stop With Savepoint Request Body Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Subtask Accumulators Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Subtask Back Pressure Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Subtask Checkpoint Statistics Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Subtask Time Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Subtasks All Accumulators Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Subtasks Times Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Task Checkpoint Statistics Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Task Executor Memory Configuration Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Task Manager Details Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Task Manager Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Task Manager Metrics Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Task Managers Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Termination Mode Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Thread Dump Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Thread Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Thread States Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Trigger Id Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Trigger Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Upload Status Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest User Accumulator Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest User Task Accumulator Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Vertex Back Pressure Level Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Vertex Back Pressure Status Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFlink Rest Vertex Flame Graph Structure
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Examples 132
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Flink Rest Counts Example
EXAMPLEFlink Rest Features Example
EXAMPLEFlink Rest Id Example
EXAMPLEFlink Rest Job Id Example
EXAMPLEFlink Rest Job Type Example
EXAMPLEFlink Rest Jvm Info Example
EXAMPLEFlink Rest Log Info Example
EXAMPLEFlink Rest Metric Example
EXAMPLEFlink Rest Node Example
EXAMPLEFlink Rest Raw Json Example
EXAMPLEFlink Rest Slot Info Example
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Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 5
What developers build with this provider.
Real-Time Analytics
Process and analyze event streams in real time for dashboards, alerts, and operational intelligence.
ETL Pipelines
Build scalable ETL pipelines for data lake ingestion, transformation, and enrichment.
Fraud Detection
Detect fraudulent transactions in real time using stateful pattern matching over event streams.
IoT Data Processing
Process high-volume IoT device telemetry with stateful aggregations and time-window computations.
Machine Learning Inference
Serve ML model predictions at scale with streaming feature computation and online inference.
Integrations 7
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
Apache Kafka
Kafka source and sink connectors for high-throughput event streaming ingestion and output.
Apache Hadoop / HDFS
HDFS integration for batch data reading and writing in distributed storage.
Apache Hive
Hive catalog integration and batch SQL queries over Hive tables.
Kubernetes
Native Kubernetes deployment with FlinkDeployment CRD and the Flink Kubernetes Operator.
Apache Iceberg
Iceberg table format integration for lakehouse workloads with ACID guarantees.
Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch sink connector for real-time search index updates from Flink jobs.
Amazon Kinesis
Kinesis source and sink connectors for AWS-native streaming pipelines.
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Resources
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 2
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Company 1
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type