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.

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Perses API

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

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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
position: Producer
access: Open Source
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - 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: '0.19'
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
common:
  - 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