# Apache Mesos

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/apache-mesos/  
**Website:** https://mesos.apache.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

Apache Mesos is a retired cluster manager (now in the Apache Attic) that provided efficient resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications or frameworks. It abstracted CPU, memory, storage, and other compute resources from machines, enabling fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems. Mesos exposed comprehensive HTTP APIs for schedulers, operators, executors, and agents.

## Kin Score — 27.5 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 27.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 42.7 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 26.3 |
| Access Clarity | 26.3 |

## Agent readiness — 20.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **Apache Mesos Scheduler HTTP API** — The Mesos Scheduler HTTP API at /api/v1/scheduler enables framework schedulers to subscribe to resource offers, launch tasks, kill tasks, reconcile status, and manage framework ...
- **Apache Mesos Apache Mesos Operator HTTP API API** — The Apache Mesos Operator HTTP API API from Apache Mesos — 1 operation(s) for apache mesos operator http api.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Apache Mesos Agentic Access** — 1 operation · 1 acting

## Security (2)

- **Apache Mesos Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Apache Mesos Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Apache Mesos Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (4)

- **Distributed Systems Orchestration** — Run multiple distributed frameworks including Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka on shared cluster resources.
- **Container Orchestration** — Schedule and manage containerized workloads across a datacenter with resource isolation.
- **Big Data Processing** — Run Apache Spark, Hadoop MapReduce, and other big data frameworks on Mesos-managed resources.
- **Microservices Platform** — Host microservices workloads with Marathon framework providing long-running service scheduling on Mesos.

## Tags

Cluster Management, Distributed Systems, Resource Management, Scheduling, Retired

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/apache-mesos/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.