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 10 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Bgp API, Connectivity API, Daemon API, and 7 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 31 more developer resources.

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46.8/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
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2 published contracts 2 Agent Skills

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

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Information Technology Management

BC-600

BGPDaemonIPAM

GET /bgp/peers GET /bgp/routes GET /config PATCH /config

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 46.8/100 · developing

Contract Quality 7.8 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 13.7 / 17

Access Clarity 5.4 / 17

Operational Transparency 4.9 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.6 / 15

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 Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 36.5 — up to +15.9 composite points
Access Clarity scores 31.6 — up to +13.7 composite points
Contract Governance scores 4.5 — up to +11.5 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
API Management (gateways, portals, service mesh, proxies)	standard	50.8	-	-
Cisco DevNet Ecosystem (builders on Meraki, Catalyst, ISE, ThousandEyes, Splunk)	standard	50.8	-	-
Red Hat Certified Ecosystem (certified partner containers + certified OpenShift operators)	standard	50.8	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

APIs 10

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

Hubble Observer API

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.

Isovalent Bgp API

The bgp API from Isovalent — 3 operation(s) for bgp.

Isovalent Connectivity API

The connectivity API from Isovalent — 2 operation(s) for connectivity.

Isovalent Daemon API

The daemon API from Isovalent — 9 operation(s) for daemon.

Isovalent Endpoint API

The endpoint API from Isovalent — 6 operation(s) for endpoint.

Isovalent Healthz API

The Healthz API from Isovalent — 1 operation(s) for healthz.

Isovalent Ipam API

The ipam API from Isovalent — 2 operation(s) for ipam.

Isovalent Policy API

The policy API from Isovalent — 10 operation(s) for policy.

Isovalent Prefilter API

The prefilter API from Isovalent — 1 operation(s) for prefilter.

Isovalent Service API

The service API from Isovalent — 2 operation(s) for service.

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Open Collections 9

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

Cilium bgp API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cilium bgp connectivity API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cilium bgp daemon API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cilium bgp endpoint API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cilium bgp Healthz API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cilium bgp ipam API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cilium bgp policy API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cilium bgp prefilter API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cilium bgp service API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Agent Skills 2

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Inspect Cilium endpoints and identities

AGENT SKILL

Observe network flows with Hubble

AGENT SKILL

OpenAPI Overlays 2

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Isovalent Cilium Agent Overlay

2 actions · update · isovalent-cilium-agent-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Isovalent Cilium Health Overlay

1 action · update · isovalent-cilium-health-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 3

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

Isovalent Authentication

none-local-socket/mutualTLS · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Isovalent Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Isovalent Vulnerability Disclosure

contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Isovalent Agentic Access

47 operations · 14 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

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

AgenticAccess

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

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 5

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

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
x-docs-platform: readthedocs
x-docs-platform-confidence: high
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-03
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:
  - Services
  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: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/isovalent-capability-edges.yml
  name: Isovalent Business Capability Map
- 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: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/isovalent-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: 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

Isovalent API — frequently asked questions

Does Isovalent have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 10 APIs from Isovalent, including Hubble Observer API, Isovalent Bgp API and Isovalent Connectivity API, and 7 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Isovalent API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 9 OpenAPI specifications for Isovalent, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Isovalent API?

Isovalent uses bearer-token authentication (none-local-socket/mutualTLS · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Isovalent Authentication.

Is the Isovalent API ready for AI agents?

Isovalent has a Kin Score of 46.8 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 23.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.

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