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 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Dashboards API, Global Datasources API, Projects API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include CNCF, Dashboards, Monitoring, Observability, and Open Source.

The Perses catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Perses’ developer surface includes documentation, API reference, GitHub presence, engineering blog, and 10 more developer resources.

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22.8/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Front door AI 2/6 trace Heartbeat 100/100 alive self hosted · Apache-2.0 Full breakdown ↓
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AccessFreemium

1 published contract 1 MCP Servers

CNCF Dashboards Monitoring Observability Open Source Time Series Visualization

What this lets a business do 1

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

SaaS Platform Operations Management

BC-4220

Dashboards

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 22.8/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 7.8 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 3.2 / 15

Access Clarity 1.2 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.0 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 4.3 / 8

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · 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

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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 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.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% 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):

Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
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)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 7.9 — up to +18.4 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 21.4 — up to +15.7 composite points
Contract Quality scores 41.4 — up to +14.7 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
Artifact Hub Cloud-Native Packages	standard	34.5 (thin)	-	-

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.

Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

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 Global Datasources API

Manage shared datasources across projects.

Perses Projects API

Manage Perses projects (workspaces).

Perses Data Sources API

Manage project-scoped datasources.

Open Collections 5

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

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

Perses API pricing

Not yet checked against Perses's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Perses's documentation. All 5 limits →

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

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Perses

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Perses Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Perses API Rules

47 rules · 45 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

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 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Community

Community

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

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: self-hosted
  license: Apache-2.0
  license_evidence:
    repo: perses/perses
    spdx: Apache-2.0
    stars: 2453
  open_source: true
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Self-hosted open source · you run it yourself
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - openapi
  - repository-license
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
position: Producing
access: Open Source
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/perses.png
x-docs-platform: mkdocs
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
tags:
- CNCF
- Dashboards
- Monitoring
- Observability
- Open Source
- Time Series
- Visualization
tags_raw:
- CNCF
- Dashboards
- Monitoring
- Observability
- Open Source
- Time Series
- Visualization
- Open-Source
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-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
- aid: perses:perses-data-sources-api
  name: Perses Data Sources API
  description: Manage project-scoped datasources.
  humanURL: https://perses.dev/
  tags:
  - Data Sources
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/perses-data-sources-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/perses-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/perses-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/perses-finops.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/perses-capability-edges.yml
  name: Perses Business Capability Map
- 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

Perses API — frequently asked questions

Does Perses have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Perses, including Perses API, Perses Dashboards API and Perses Global Datasources API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Perses API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 4 OpenAPI specifications for Perses, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the Perses API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Perses, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Perses have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Perses.

Is the Perses API ready for AI agents?

Perses has a Kin Score of 22.8 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.5 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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