# Perses

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/perses/  
**Website:** https://perses.dev/  
**APIs profiled:** 5

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.

## Kin Score — 27.0 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 27.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 46.9 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 24.6 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (5)

- **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).

## MCP servers (1)

- **MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Perses Agentic Access** — 20 operations · 12 acting

## Security (1)

- **Perses Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Plans (1)

- **Perses Plans Pricing**

## Tags

CNCF, Dashboards, Monitoring, Observability, Open-Source, Time Series, Visualization

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