# Falco

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/falco/  
**Website:** https://falco.org  
**APIs profiled:** 5

Falco is a cloud-native runtime security tool that detects unexpected application behavior and alerts on threats at runtime using eBPF. It is a CNCF graduated project that continuously monitors Linux kernel syscalls and compares them against configurable security rules to detect intrusions, privilege escalation, and other suspicious behaviors.

## Kin Score — 35.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 35.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 60.1 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 26.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 26.5 (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 | verified |
| 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 (5)

- **Falco Plugin API** — The Falco Plugin API provides a C ABI interface for developing plugins that extend Falco with new event sources and field extractors. Plugins are shared libraries that implement...
- **Falco gRPC API** — The Falco gRPC API provided a streaming interface for consuming Falco alert outputs and querying version information from a running Falco instance. The embedded gRPC server and ...
- **Falco Health API** — Health check endpoints
- **Falco Rules API** — Rules management endpoints
- **Falco Version API** — Version information

## Agentic access (1)

- **Falco Agentic Access** — 4 operations · 1 acting

## Security (1)

- **Falco Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Falco Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Cloud-Native, eBPF, Runtime Security, Security, Threat Detection

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