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Pepperdata

Pepperdata provides dynamic Kubernetes resource optimization and observability for data-intensive workloads, increasing cluster utilization, improving performance, and reducing cost in real time across Spark, MapReduce, Tez, and Kubernetes environments. Its REST API gives programmatic access to the same observability data available in the Pepperdata dashboard: time-series metrics with series breakdowns and filters (/m), application and job details including counters and cost/performance tuning recommendations (/jobdetails), and full CRUD over metric alarms (/alarms). Authentication uses a custom API-key header. Pepperdata is a portfolio company of Wing Venture Capital.

Pepperdata publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Alarms API, Job Details API, and Metrics API. Tagged areas include Company, Observability, Monitoring, Kubernetes, and Big Data.

Pepperdata’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, engineering blog, support, pricing, signup flow, and 16 more developer resources.

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30.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 19/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
3 APIs
CompanyObservabilityMonitoringKubernetesBig DataCost OptimizationMetricsAPM

Kin Score

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 30.1/100 · thin
Contract Quality 4.0 / 23
Developer Ergonomics 7.6 / 18
Access Clarity 8.0 / 18
Operational Transparency 0.3 / 12
Contract Governance 0.5 / 11
Discoverability 7.3 / 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 3

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

Pepperdata Alarms API

Create, retrieve, revise, and delete metric alarms.

Pepperdata Job Details API

Query application/job details, counters, and tuning recommendations.

Pepperdata Metrics API

Retrieve time-series metrics, series, and filters.

Open Collections 4

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Pepperdata REST Alarms API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pepperdata REST Alarms Job Details API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pepperdata REST Alarms Metrics API

OPEN COLLECTION

Security Posture 2

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

Pepperdata Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Pepperdata Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 SignUp
SignUp
 Login
Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

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 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions
Conventions
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Conformance
Conformance
 DataModel
DataModel

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages
Packages
 GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication
Authentication
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog
Blog
 Website
Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay
Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: pepperdata
name: Pepperdata
description: 'Pepperdata provides dynamic Kubernetes resource optimization and observability for data-intensive workloads,
  increasing cluster utilization, improving performance, and reducing cost in real time across Spark, MapReduce, Tez, and
  Kubernetes environments. Its REST API gives programmatic access to the same observability data available in the Pepperdata
  dashboard: time-series metrics with series breakdowns and filters (/m), application and job details including counters and
  cost/performance tuning recommendations (/jobdetails), and full CRUD over metric alarms (/alarms). Authentication uses a
  custom API-key header. Pepperdata is a portfolio company of Wing Venture Capital.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pepperdata/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- wing-venture-capital
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: rest-api-enriched
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
image: https://www.pepperdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/normal-logo-1200px.png
tags:
- Company
- Observability
- Monitoring
- Kubernetes
- Big Data
- Cost Optimization
- Metrics
- APM
apis:
- aid: pepperdata:pepperdata-alarms-api
  name: Pepperdata Alarms API
  description: Create, retrieve, revise, and delete metric alarms.
  humanURL: https://docs.pepperdata.com/rest-api/
  baseURL: https://dashboard.pepperdata.com/pepperdata-demonstration/api
  tags:
  - Alarms
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pepperdata-alarms-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.pepperdata.com/rest-api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.pepperdata.com/rest-api/
- aid: pepperdata:pepperdata-job-details-api
  name: Pepperdata Job Details API
  description: Query application/job details, counters, and tuning recommendations.
  humanURL: https://docs.pepperdata.com/rest-api/
  baseURL: https://dashboard.pepperdata.com/pepperdata-demonstration/api
  tags:
  - Job Details
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pepperdata-job-details-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.pepperdata.com/rest-api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.pepperdata.com/rest-api/
- aid: pepperdata:pepperdata-metrics-api
  name: Pepperdata Metrics API
  description: Retrieve time-series metrics, series, and filters.
  humanURL: https://docs.pepperdata.com/rest-api/
  baseURL: https://dashboard.pepperdata.com/pepperdata-demonstration/api
  tags:
  - Metrics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pepperdata-metrics-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.pepperdata.com/rest-api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.pepperdata.com/rest-api/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/pepperdata-rest-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/pepperdata-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/pepperdata-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/pepperdata-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/pepperdata-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/pepperdata-data-model.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/pepperdata-packages.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/pepperdata-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/pepperdata-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/pepperdata-domain-security.yml
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.pepperdata.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.pepperdata.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.pepperdata.com/rest-api/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.pepperdata.com/blog/
- type: Support
  url: https://support.pepperdata.com/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.pepperdata.com/pricing/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.pepperdata.com/request-a-demo/
- type: Login
  url: https://dashboard.pepperdata.com/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.pepperdata.com/legal/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.pepperdata.com/legal/privacy-policy#terms
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/pepperdata
- type: Website
  url: https://www.pepperdata.com/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 16
  pass: local-v1

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