# Ceph

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ceph/  
**Website:** https://ceph.io  
**APIs profiled:** 6

Ceph is an open source, distributed storage platform that provides unified object, block, and file storage on commodity hardware with no single point of failure. The Ceph Manager (ceph-mgr) ships with a RESTful API that exposes the same operations available in the Ceph Dashboard for managing pools, OSDs, hosts, monitors, RGW, RBD, CephFS, and cluster configuration. The API is OpenAPI 3.0 compliant and authenticates via JWT bearer tokens.

## Kin Score — 25.7 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 25.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 52.8 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 26.1 (agent-aware)

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

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (6)

- **Ceph Auth API** — The Auth API from Ceph — 3 operation(s) for auth.
- **Ceph Cluster API** — The Cluster API from Ceph — 1 operation(s) for cluster.
- **Ceph Configuration API** — The Configuration API from Ceph — 3 operation(s) for configuration.
- **Ceph CRUSH API** — The CRUSH API from Ceph — 2 operation(s) for crush.
- **Ceph Daemon API** — The Daemon API from Ceph — 2 operation(s) for daemon.
- **Ceph User API** — The User API from Ceph — 2 operation(s) for user.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Ceph Agentic Access** — 18 operations · 12 acting

## Security (3)

- **Ceph Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Ceph Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC
- **Ceph Vulnerability Disclosure** — disclosure policy published

## Tags

Storage, Distributed Storage, Object Storage, Block Storage, File Storage, Open-Source, Software-Defined Storage

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