Arbor Networks

Arbor Networks is the DDoS protection and network-visibility division of NETSCOUT (Arbor Networks was acquired by NETSCOUT in 2015). Drawing on more than 25 years of experience and visibility into roughly 800 Tbps of global internet traffic across 550+ service-provider and enterprise customers, Arbor builds products that detect and mitigate distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and provide network traffic analytics. Its portfolio includes Arbor Sightline (formerly Peakflow SP) for service-provider-scale monitoring, analytics and mitigation orchestration; Arbor Edge Defense (AED) as an inline stateless perimeter appliance; the Arbor Threat Mitigation System (TMS); Arbor Cloud managed scrubbing (16 global scrubbing centers, 15+ Tbps); and Arbor Spectrum/Insight for advanced threat analytics. Arbor exposes programmatic control primarily through the Sightline "SP REST API" (a JSON:API-compliant interface rooted at /api/sp/ on the appliance) and the Edge Defense Manager (EDM) API, with first-party client tooling published on GitHub and PyPI.

Arbor Networks publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, DDoS Protection, Network Security, Cybersecurity, and Threat Mitigation.

Arbor Networks’ developer surface includes documentation, API reference, and 13 more developer resources.

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20.5/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 7/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

2 APIs

CompanyDDoS ProtectionNetwork SecurityCybersecurityThreat MitigationNetwork VisibilityDDoSSecurity

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 20.5/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 6.1 / 20

Commercial Clarity 3.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.1 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 9.3 / 10

Agent readiness — 7/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3

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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

Compliance

Compliance

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

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name: Arbor Networks
description: Arbor Networks is the DDoS protection and network-visibility division of NETSCOUT (Arbor Networks was acquired
  by NETSCOUT in 2015). Drawing on more than 25 years of experience and visibility into roughly 800 Tbps of global internet
  traffic across 550+ service-provider and enterprise customers, Arbor builds products that detect and mitigate distributed
  denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and provide network traffic analytics. Its portfolio includes Arbor Sightline (formerly
  Peakflow SP) for service-provider-scale monitoring, analytics and mitigation orchestration; Arbor Edge Defense (AED) as
  an inline stateless perimeter appliance; the Arbor Threat Mitigation System (TMS); Arbor Cloud managed scrubbing (16 global
  scrubbing centers, 15+ Tbps); and Arbor Spectrum/Insight for advanced threat analytics. Arbor exposes programmatic control
  primarily through the Sightline "SP REST API" (a JSON:API-compliant interface rooted at /api/sp/ on the appliance) and the
  Edge Defense Manager (EDM) API, with first-party client tooling published on GitHub and PyPI.
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- Network Security
- Cybersecurity
- Threat Mitigation
- Network Visibility
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apis:
- name: Arbor Sightline SP REST API
  description: JSON:API-compliant REST API for NETSCOUT Arbor Sightline (formerly SP/Peakflow), fully discoverable from the
    root URL /api/sp/. Exposes network traffic data, DDoS alerts, managed objects, mitigations and reporting on the Sightline
    appliance. API v5 ships with Sightline 9.0; the public cookbook documents SP v8.4 / API v4.
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  - type: SourceCode
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- name: Arbor Edge Defense Manager (EDM) API
  description: REST API for NETSCOUT Arbor Edge Defense Manager (EDM) covering device management, alert and threat viewing
    (DDoS alerts, threats), traffic analysis, Contextual Threat Intelligence (CTI) data/config and executive report generation.
    Authenticated with an API token generated from the EDM command line.
  humanURL: https://arbor.github.io/edm-api-docs/
  baseURL: https://arbor.github.io/edm-api-docs/
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  - type: Documentation
    url: https://arbor.github.io/edm-api-docs/
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- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/arbor-networks-trust-center.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://trust.netscout.com/
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/arbor-networks-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.netscout.com/data-privacy-and-trust-center
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/arbor-networks-security.txt
- type: Website
  url: https://www.netscout.com/arbor
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.netscout.com/arbor
- type: Documentation
  url: https://arbor.github.io/sp-rest-api-cookbook/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://arbor.github.io/sp-rest-api-cookbook/sp-rest-api-tutorial.html
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/arbor
- type: Packages
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- type: SDKs
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- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/arbor-networks-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/arbor-networks-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/arbor-networks-well-known.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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Arbor Networks

Kin Score

APIs 2

Arbor Sightline SP REST API

Arbor Edge Defense Manager (EDM) API

Security Posture 3

Arbor Networks Domain Security

Arbor Networks Vulnerability Disclosure

Arbor Networks Trust Center

Resources