Groundwork Open Source

GroundWork Open Source, Inc. builds GroundWork Monitor, an open-source-based IT and network monitoring platform for hybrid infrastructure, assembling Nagios Core, Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana into a unified availability, event, and metrics monitoring product. Its integration layer, the Transit Connection Generator (TCG), exposes a Controller REST API and a Go SDK for feeding host/ service inventory, metrics, alert events, and downtime windows into the GroundWork Foundation server. The platform is self-hosted; all source lives on GitHub under the gwos organization (TCG, Nagios Core, Grafana, and Telegraf forks). Surfaced as a portfolio company of Canaan Partners and enriched here from its live GitHub org and published Swagger 2.0 API specification.

Groundwork Open Source publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including agent API, alert API, downtimes API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Company, Monitoring, Network Monitoring, IT Infrastructure, and Observability.

Groundwork Open Source’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, and 16 more developer resources.

📡 Source on GitHub

23.8/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 19/100 agent aware self hosted · MIT Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

1 APIs

Company Monitoring Network MonitoringIT InfrastructureObservability Metrics Event Open-SourceNagios

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 23.8/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 8.5 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 6.8 / 18

Access Clarity 0.0 / 18

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 12

Contract Governance 0.5 / 11

Discoverability 6.0 / 9

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 19/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

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APIs 6

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

Groundwork Open Source agent API

The agent API from Groundwork Open Source — 8 operation(s) for agent.

Groundwork Open Source alert API

The alert API from Groundwork Open Source — 3 operation(s) for alert.

Groundwork Open Source downtimes API

The downtimes API from Groundwork Open Source — 2 operation(s) for downtimes.

Groundwork Open Source inventory API

The inventory API from Groundwork Open Source — 1 operation(s) for inventory.

Groundwork Open Source metric API

The metric API from Groundwork Open Source — 1 operation(s) for metric.

Groundwork Open Source metrics API

The metrics API from Groundwork Open Source — 1 operation(s) for metrics.

Open Collections 9

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Groundwork Open Source agent API

OPEN COLLECTION

Groundwork Open Source agent alert API

OPEN COLLECTION

Groundwork Open Source agent connector API

OPEN COLLECTION

Groundwork Open Source agent downtimes API

OPEN COLLECTION

Groundwork Open Source agent event API

OPEN COLLECTION

Groundwork Open Source agent inventory API

OPEN COLLECTION

Groundwork Open Source agent metric API

OPEN COLLECTION

Groundwork Open Source agent metrics API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Groundwork Open Source Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

OpenAPI

OpenAPI

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

ErrorCatalog

Conventions

DataModel

Lifecycle

Conformance

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

SourceCode

SourceCode

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

IssueTracker

IssueTracker

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License

License

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: groundwork-open-source
name: Groundwork Open Source
description: GroundWork Open Source, Inc. builds GroundWork Monitor, an open-source-based IT and network monitoring platform
  for hybrid infrastructure, assembling Nagios Core, Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana into a unified availability, event, and
  metrics monitoring product. Its integration layer, the Transit Connection Generator (TCG), exposes a Controller REST API
  and a Go SDK for feeding host/ service inventory, metrics, alert events, and downtime windows into the GroundWork Foundation
  server. The platform is self-hosted; all source lives on GitHub under the gwos organization (TCG, Nagios Core, Grafana,
  and Telegraf forks). Surfaced as a portfolio company of Canaan Partners and enriched here from its live GitHub org and published
  Swagger 2.0 API specification.
deliveryModel:
  model: self-hosted
  license: MIT
  open_source: true
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Self-hosted open source · you run it yourself
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gwos/tcg/master/.github/img/readme_image.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/groundwork-open-source/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- canaan-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Monitoring
- Network Monitoring
- IT Infrastructure
- Observability
- Metrics
- Event
- Open-Source
- Nagios
tags_raw:
- Company
- Monitoring
- Network Monitoring
- IT Infrastructure
- Observability
- Metrics
- Events
- Open Source
- Nagios
apis:
- aid: groundwork-open-source:groundwork-open-source-agent-api
  name: Groundwork Open Source agent API
  description: The agent API from Groundwork Open Source — 8 operation(s) for agent.
  humanURL: https://github.com/gwos/tcg
  tags:
  - Agents
  tags_raw:
  - agent
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/groundwork-open-source-agent-api-openapi.yml
- aid: groundwork-open-source:groundwork-open-source-alert-api
  name: Groundwork Open Source alert API
  description: The alert API from Groundwork Open Source — 3 operation(s) for alert.
  humanURL: https://github.com/gwos/tcg
  tags:
  - Alert
  tags_raw:
  - alert
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/groundwork-open-source-alert-api-openapi.yml
- aid: groundwork-open-source:groundwork-open-source-downtimes-api
  name: Groundwork Open Source downtimes API
  description: The downtimes API from Groundwork Open Source — 2 operation(s) for downtimes.
  humanURL: https://github.com/gwos/tcg
  tags:
  - Downtimes
  tags_raw:
  - downtimes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/groundwork-open-source-downtimes-api-openapi.yml
- aid: groundwork-open-source:groundwork-open-source-inventory-api
  name: Groundwork Open Source inventory API
  description: The inventory API from Groundwork Open Source — 1 operation(s) for inventory.
  humanURL: https://github.com/gwos/tcg
  tags:
  - Inventory
  tags_raw:
  - inventory
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/groundwork-open-source-inventory-api-openapi.yml
- aid: groundwork-open-source:groundwork-open-source-metric-api
  name: Groundwork Open Source metric API
  description: The metric API from Groundwork Open Source — 1 operation(s) for metric.
  humanURL: https://github.com/gwos/tcg
  tags:
  - metric
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/groundwork-open-source-metric-api-openapi.yml
- aid: groundwork-open-source:groundwork-open-source-metrics-api
  name: Groundwork Open Source metrics API
  description: The metrics API from Groundwork Open Source — 1 operation(s) for metrics.
  humanURL: https://github.com/gwos/tcg
  tags:
  - Metrics
  tags_raw:
  - metrics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/groundwork-open-source-metrics-api-openapi.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/gwos/tcg/issues
- type: License
  name: MIT
  url: https://github.com/gwos/tcg/blob/master/LICENSE
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/_original/groundwork-open-source-tcg-openapi-original.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/groundwork-open-source-tcg-overlay.yaml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/groundwork-open-source-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/groundwork-open-source-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/groundwork-open-source-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/groundwork-open-source-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/groundwork-open-source-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/groundwork-open-source-conformance.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/groundwork-open-source-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: Packages
  url: packages/groundwork-open-source-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/groundwork-open-source-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/groundwork-open-source-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Documentation
  url: https://github.com/gwos/tcg#readme
- type: APIReference
  url: https://github.com/gwos/tcg/blob/master/docs/swagger.yaml
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/gwos/tcg
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/gwos
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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