# Isovalent

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/isovalent/  
**Website:** https://isovalent.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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.

## Kin Score — 33.7 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-30 under rubric 0.17.2. Trend: flat (-0.5 from 34.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 9.4 |
| Governance | 4.5 |
| Contract Governance | 4.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 42.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 78.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 10.5 |
| Access Clarity | 10.5 |

## Agent readiness — 23.9 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Requires approval — onboarding: approval, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (10)

- **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.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Isovalent MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Isovalent Agentic Access** — 47 operations · 14 acting

## Security (3)

- **Isovalent Authentication** — none-local-socket/mutualTLS · 2 schemes
- **Isovalent Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Isovalent Vulnerability Disclosure** — contact published

## Tags

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

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