Isovalent

Isovalent is the company founded in 2017 by the creators of Cilium, the eBPF-based networking, security, and observability platform for Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure. Isovalent builds and maintains the open source Cilium project (a CNCF graduated project), the Hubble observability layer, and the Tetragon runtime security engine, and offers commercial Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium and Isovalent Enterprise for Tetragon distributions with hardened builds, support, and advanced features. Cilium replaces kube-proxy and traditional CNI plugins with identity-aware, eBPF-powered dataplane networking, network policy, service mesh, multi-cluster mesh, and deep flow-level observability. The developer surface spans the JSON REST API served by the cilium-agent, the cilium-health connectivity API, the gRPC Hubble Observer/Relay flow APIs, first-party Go client packages, and the cilium and hubble command-line tools. Isovalent was acquired by Cisco in 2024 and its technology now underpins Cisco's cloud-native security portfolio.

Isovalent publishes 9 APIs on the APIs.io network, including bgp API, connectivity API, daemon API, and 6 more. Tagged areas include Company, Networking, Kubernetes, eBPF, and Security.

Isovalent’s developer surface includes CLI, authentication, changelog, sandbox, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, and 30 more developer resources.

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33.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-30 · rubric v0.17.2

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2 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Company Networking Kubernetes eBPF Security Observability Cloud-Native Service Mesh CNI Container Networking

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Composite quality — 33.7/100 · thin

Contract Quality 2.4 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 15.6 / 20

Access Clarity 2.1 / 20

Operational Transparency 5.5 / 13

Contract Governance 0.5 / 12

Discoverability 7.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 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 Surface 0 / 5

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APIs 10

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

Open Collections 10

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

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Sandbox

Sandbox

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

CLI

CLI

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Security

Security

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Deprecation

ChangeLog

Roadmap

Support

Community

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

ParentCompany

Overlay

Overlay

Protobuf

Source (apis.yml)

aid: isovalent
name: Isovalent
description: Isovalent is the company founded in 2017 by the creators of Cilium, the eBPF-based networking, security, and
  observability platform for Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure. Isovalent builds and maintains the open source Cilium
  project (a CNCF graduated project), the Hubble observability layer, and the Tetragon runtime security engine, and offers
  commercial Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium and Isovalent Enterprise for Tetragon distributions with hardened builds, support,
  and advanced features. Cilium replaces kube-proxy and traditional CNI plugins with identity-aware, eBPF-powered dataplane
  networking, network policy, service mesh, multi-cluster mesh, and deep flow-level observability. The developer surface spans
  the JSON REST API served by the cilium-agent, the cilium-health connectivity API, the gRPC Hubble Observer/Relay flow APIs,
  first-party Go client packages, and the cilium and hubble command-line tools. Isovalent was acquired by Cisco in 2024 and
  its technology now underpins Cisco's cloud-native security portfolio.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/isovalent/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: approval
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Requires approval
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-19'
image: https://isovalent.com/favicon.ico
tags:
- Company
- Networking
- Kubernetes
- eBPF
- Security
- Observability
- Cloud-Native
- Service Mesh
- CNI
- Container Networking
tags_raw:
- Company
- Networking
- Kubernetes
- eBPF
- Security
- Observability
- Cloud Native
- Service Mesh
- CNI
- Container Networking
apis:
- name: Hubble Observer API
  description: The gRPC Hubble Observer, Relay, and Peer APIs that stream real-time network flow, service-map, and connectivity
    observability events from Cilium's eBPF dataplane.
  humanURL: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/observability/hubble/
  baseURL: hubble-relay.kube-system.svc.cluster.local:80
  properties:
  - type: Protobuf
    url: grpc/isovalent-hubble-observer.proto
  - type: Protobuf
    url: grpc/isovalent-hubble-flow.proto
  - type: Protobuf
    url: grpc/isovalent-hubble-relay.proto
  - type: Protobuf
    url: grpc/isovalent-hubble-peer.proto
- aid: isovalent:isovalent-bgp-api
  name: Isovalent bgp API
  description: The bgp API from Isovalent — 3 operation(s) for bgp.
  humanURL: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/api/
  baseURL: unix:///var/run/cilium/cilium.sock
  tags:
  - bgp
  tags_raw:
  - bgp
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/isovalent-bgp-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/api/
- aid: isovalent:isovalent-connectivity-api
  name: Isovalent connectivity API
  description: The connectivity API from Isovalent — 2 operation(s) for connectivity.
  humanURL: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/api/
  baseURL: unix:///var/run/cilium/cilium.sock
  tags:
  - Connectivity
  tags_raw:
  - connectivity
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/isovalent-connectivity-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/api/
- aid: isovalent:isovalent-daemon-api
  name: Isovalent daemon API
  description: The daemon API from Isovalent — 9 operation(s) for daemon.
  humanURL: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/api/
  baseURL: unix:///var/run/cilium/cilium.sock
  tags:
  - daemon
  tags_raw:
  - daemon
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/isovalent-daemon-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/api/
- aid: isovalent:isovalent-endpoint-api
  name: Isovalent endpoint API
  description: The endpoint API from Isovalent — 6 operation(s) for endpoint.
  humanURL: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/api/
  baseURL: unix:///var/run/cilium/cilium.sock
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - endpoint
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/isovalent-endpoint-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/api/
- aid: isovalent:isovalent-healthz-api
  name: Isovalent Healthz API
  description: The Healthz API from Isovalent — 1 operation(s) for healthz.
  humanURL: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/api/
  baseURL: unix:///var/run/cilium/cilium.sock
  tags:
  - Healthz
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/isovalent-healthz-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/api/
- aid: isovalent:isovalent-ipam-api
  name: Isovalent ipam API
  description: The ipam API from Isovalent — 2 operation(s) for ipam.
  humanURL: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/api/
  baseURL: unix:///var/run/cilium/cilium.sock
  tags:
  - ipam
  tags_raw:
  - ipam
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/isovalent-ipam-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/api/
- aid: isovalent:isovalent-policy-api
  name: Isovalent policy API
  description: The policy API from Isovalent — 10 operation(s) for policy.
  humanURL: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/api/
  baseURL: unix:///var/run/cilium/cilium.sock
  tags:
  - Policy
  tags_raw:
  - policy
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/isovalent-policy-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/api/
- aid: isovalent:isovalent-prefilter-api
  name: Isovalent prefilter API
  description: The prefilter API from Isovalent — 1 operation(s) for prefilter.
  humanURL: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/api/
  baseURL: unix:///var/run/cilium/cilium.sock
  tags:
  - prefilter
  tags_raw:
  - prefilter
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/isovalent-prefilter-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/api/
- aid: isovalent:isovalent-service-api
  name: Isovalent service API
  description: The service API from Isovalent — 2 operation(s) for service.
  humanURL: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/api/
  baseURL: unix:///var/run/cilium/cilium.sock
  tags:
  - Service
  tags_raw:
  - service
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/isovalent-service-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/api/
common:
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://apis.io/providers/cisco/
  name: Cisco
  x-relationship: acquisition
  x-generated-by: cisco-family:2026-08-19
  x-acquired: 2024
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/isovalent-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/isovalent-domain-security.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/isovalent-agentic-access.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/isovalent-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/isovalent-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/isovalent-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/isovalent-cli.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/isovalent-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/isovalent-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/isovalent-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/isovalent-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/isovalent-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/isovalent-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/isovalent-data-model.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/isovalent-changelog.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/isovalent-sandbox.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/isovalent-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/isovalent-llms.txt
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/isovalent-cilium-agent-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/isovalent-cilium-health-overlay.yaml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Protobuf
  url: grpc/isovalent-hubble-observer.proto
- type: Website
  url: https://isovalent.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/api/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/gettingstarted/
- type: Blog
  url: https://isovalent.com/blog/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://isovalent.com/blog/rss.xml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/cilium
- type: Roadmap
  url: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/community/roadmap/
- type: Support
  url: https://isovalent.com/support/
- type: Community
  url: https://cilium.io/get-involved/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://isovalent.com/pricing/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://isovalent.com/terms-of-service/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://isovalent.com/privacy-policy/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence
x-parent: cisco
x-relationship: acquisition
x-acquired: 2024

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