Perses

Perses is an open-source monitoring and dashboarding tool designed as a modern alternative for visualizing time-series data with a focus on performance, extensibility, and GitOps. Perses exposes a REST API for managing dashboards, datasources, ephemeral dashboards, projects, roles, role bindings, secrets, users, variables, plugins, validation, and migrations. It is a CNCF sandbox project.

Perses publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Dashboards API, Datasources API, Global Datasources API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include CNCF, Dashboards, Monitoring, Observability, and Open-Source.

Perses’ developer surface includes documentation, API reference, GitHub presence, engineering blog, and 6 more developer resources.

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25.4/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 21/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

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1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CNCF Dashboards Monitoring Observability Open-Source Time Series Visualization

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 25.4/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 10.3 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 18

Access Clarity 2.8 / 18

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 12

Contract Governance 0.0 / 11

Discoverability 5.3 / 9

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 21/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 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 5

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

Perses API

The Perses REST API provides programmatic access to dashboards, datasources, ephemeral dashboards, projects, roles, role bindings, secrets, users, variables, plugins, validation...

Perses Dashboards API

Manage dashboards inside a project.

Perses Datasources API

Manage project-scoped datasources.

Perses Global Datasources API

Manage shared datasources across projects.

Perses Projects API

Manage Perses projects (workspaces).

Open Collections 6

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Perses Dashboards API

OPEN COLLECTION

Perses Dashboards Datasources API

OPEN COLLECTION

Perses Dashboards Global Datasources API

OPEN COLLECTION

Perses Dashboards Projects API

OPEN COLLECTION

Perses API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

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

MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Perses Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Perses Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Perses Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

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

Perses Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Perses Agentic Access

20 operations · 12 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

MCPServer

MCPServer

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Community

Community

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: perses
name: Perses
description: Perses is an open-source monitoring and dashboarding tool designed as a modern alternative for visualizing time-series
  data with a focus on performance, extensibility, and GitOps. Perses exposes a REST API for managing dashboards, datasources,
  ephemeral dashboards, projects, roles, role bindings, secrets, users, variables, plugins, validation, and migrations. It
  is a CNCF sandbox project.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Producing
access: Open Source
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/perses.png
tags:
- CNCF
- Dashboards
- Monitoring
- Observability
- Open-Source
- Time Series
- Visualization
tags_raw:
- CNCF
- Dashboards
- Monitoring
- Observability
- Open Source
- Time Series
- Visualization
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/perses/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: perses:perses
  name: Perses API
  description: The Perses REST API provides programmatic access to dashboards, datasources, ephemeral dashboards, projects,
    roles, role bindings, secrets, users, variables, plugins, validation, and migration resources for the Perses monitoring
    and dashboarding platform.
  humanURL: https://perses.dev/
  tags:
  - Dashboards
  - Monitoring
  - Observability
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://perses.dev/perses/docs/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://perses.dev/perses/docs/api/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/perses/perses
- aid: perses:perses-dashboards-api
  name: Perses Dashboards API
  description: Manage dashboards inside a project.
  humanURL: https://perses.dev/
  tags:
  - Dashboards
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/perses-dashboards-api-openapi.yml
- aid: perses:perses-datasources-api
  name: Perses Datasources API
  description: Manage project-scoped datasources.
  humanURL: https://perses.dev/
  tags:
  - Data Sources
  tags_raw:
  - Datasources
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/perses-datasources-api-openapi.yml
- aid: perses:perses-global-datasources-api
  name: Perses Global Datasources API
  description: Manage shared datasources across projects.
  humanURL: https://perses.dev/
  tags:
  - Global Datasources
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/perses-global-datasources-api-openapi.yml
- aid: perses:perses-projects-api
  name: Perses Projects API
  description: Manage Perses projects (workspaces).
  humanURL: https://perses.dev/
  tags:
  - Project
  tags_raw:
  - Projects
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/perses-projects-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/perses-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/perses-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://perses.dev/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://perses.dev/perses/docs/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://perses.dev/perses/docs/api/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/perses
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/perses/perses
- type: Community
  url: https://perses.dev/community/
- type: Blog
  url: https://perses.dev/blog/
- name: MCP Server
  url: https://github.com/perses/mcp-server
  type: MCPServer
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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