Pixie

Pixie is a Kubernetes observability platform that uses eBPF to automatically collect telemetry data including full-body application requests, resource and network metrics, and application profiles without manual instrumentation.

Pixie publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Clusters API, Health API, Scripts API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include eBPF, Kubernetes, Monitoring, and Observability.

The Pixie catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Pixie’s developer surface includes API reference, support, CLI, changelog, authentication, documentation, getting-started guide, and 30 more developer resources.

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47.3/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 26/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 50/100 alive self hosted · Apache-2.0 Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract

eBPF Kubernetes Monitoring Observability

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

Scripts

POST /api/pxl/execute

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 47.3/100 · developing

Contract Quality 9.5 / 16

Developer Ergonomics 9.5 / 13

Access Clarity 0.7 / 13

Operational Transparency 2.9 / 8

Contract Governance 1.1 / 8

Discoverability 3.6 / 7

Regulatory Posture 2.5 / 15

Open Source Surface 10.0 / 10

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 26/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 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 7 / 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

Pagination 5 / 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.

Open Source Surface applies to this provider. This product is open source and we read its repository directly, so Open Source Surface carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from what the repository actually publishes — a security policy, a contribution guide, a release history, a code of conduct — read live from the provider rather than inferred from our own catalog pointers. This facet adds; nothing was taken away to make room for it. An open-source project is not excused from the commercial facets, because exemption would strip it of the points it does earn. If we have the wrong repository, or this product is not open source, say so on your provider repo and we will drop the facet rather than have you publish against 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 65 points between them, because both conditional facets apply and carry 35 points together. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 65% 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):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
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)
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
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 5.3 — up to +18.9 composite points
Contract Quality scores 58.3 — up to +10.4 composite points
Contract Governance scores 14.4 — up to +10.3 composite points

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

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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
DigitalOcean Marketplace (partner 1-click apps and SaaS add-ons)	standard	56.5	-	-
OpenSSF Best Practices Badge Holders	standard	56.5	-	-

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 1

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.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 5

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

Pixie PxL Script API

Python-dialect domain-specific language and API for querying and analyzing telemetry data collected by Pixie within a Kubernetes cluster. PxL scripts allow developers to filter,...

Pixie Plugin System API

Plugin API that allows configuring PxL scripts to export observability data from Pixie at regularly scheduled intervals to external systems. Supports integrations including a Gr...

Pixie Clusters API

Operations for listing and inspecting Pixie-instrumented Kubernetes clusters connected to the Pixie Cloud.

Pixie Health API

Health and status endpoints for the Pixie service.

Pixie Scripts API

Operations for executing PxL scripts against a cluster and retrieving telemetry query results.

Open Collections 4

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

Pixie Clusters API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pixie Clusters Health API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pixie Clusters Scripts API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pixie API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pixie API pricing

Not yet checked against Pixie's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-05 from docs.px.dev/about-pixie/what-is-pixie/; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Pixie - Open Source freemium	Free

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Self-Hosted Pixie Cloud: bounded by user-deployed resources; no project-published per-second numeric varies
Community-Hosted Pixie Cloud: fair-use; not publicly documented varies

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Pixie's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Pixie Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Pixie Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

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

Pixie

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Pixie Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Pixie Context

0 classes · 7 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Pixie — jsonschema rules

6 rules · 4 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Pixie Plugin Configuration

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Pixie PxL Script

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

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

Pixie Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Pixie Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Pixie Agentic Access

4 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 5

Reference material describing how the API behaves

APIReference

APIReference

ContributionGuide

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conventions

Conformance

Conformance

JSONLD

JSONLD

Build 6

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

SDKs

CLI

CodeOfConduct

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

GitHubRepository

GitHubRepository

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityPolicy

SecurityPolicy

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 7

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

Support

ChangeLog

IssueTracker

Releases

Community

Slack

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Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

License

License

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: pixie
name: Pixie
description: Pixie is a Kubernetes observability platform that uses eBPF to automatically collect telemetry data including
  full-body application requests, resource and network metrics, and application profiles without manual instrumentation.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: self-hosted
  license: Apache-2.0
  open_source: true
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Self-hosted open source · you run it yourself
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/pixie.png
tags:
- eBPF
- Kubernetes
- Monitoring
- Observability
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pixie/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: pixie:pixie-pxl-api
  name: Pixie PxL Script API
  description: Python-dialect domain-specific language and API for querying and analyzing telemetry data collected by Pixie
    within a Kubernetes cluster. PxL scripts allow developers to filter, aggregate, and visualize metrics, traces, and full-body
    request data collected via eBPF.
  humanURL: https://docs.px.dev/reference/pxl/
  tags:
  - eBPF
  - Kubernetes
  - Metrics
  - Observability
  - Scripting
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.px.dev/reference/pxl/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://docs.px.dev/reference/pxl/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pixie-pxl-script-schema.json
- aid: pixie:pixie-plugin-api
  name: Pixie Plugin System API
  description: Plugin API that allows configuring PxL scripts to export observability data from Pixie at regularly scheduled
    intervals to external systems. Supports integrations including a Grafana datasource plugin for visualizing Pixie data
    in Grafana dashboards.
  humanURL: https://docs.px.dev/reference/plugins/plugin-system/
  tags:
  - Grafana
  - Integration
  - Kubernetes
  - Observability
  - Plugins
  tags_raw:
  - Grafana
  - Integrations
  - Kubernetes
  - Observability
  - Plugins
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.px.dev/reference/plugins/plugin-system/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://docs.px.dev/reference/plugins/grafana/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pixie-plugin-schema.json
- aid: pixie:pixie-clusters-api
  name: Pixie Clusters API
  description: Operations for listing and inspecting Pixie-instrumented Kubernetes clusters connected to the Pixie Cloud.
  humanURL: https://docs.px.dev/
  tags:
  - Cluster
  tags_raw:
  - Clusters
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pixie-clusters-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.px.dev/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.px.dev/installing-pixie/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://docs.px.dev/reference/api/overview/
  - type: Client Libraries
    url: https://docs.px.dev/reference/api/
- aid: pixie:pixie-health-api
  name: Pixie Health API
  description: Health and status endpoints for the Pixie service.
  humanURL: https://docs.px.dev/
  tags:
  - Health
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pixie-health-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.px.dev/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.px.dev/installing-pixie/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://docs.px.dev/reference/api/overview/
  - type: Client Libraries
    url: https://docs.px.dev/reference/api/
- aid: pixie:pixie-scripts-api
  name: Pixie Scripts API
  description: Operations for executing PxL scripts against a cluster and retrieving telemetry query results.
  humanURL: https://docs.px.dev/
  tags:
  - Scripts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pixie-scripts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.px.dev/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.px.dev/installing-pixie/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://docs.px.dev/reference/api/overview/
  - type: Client Libraries
    url: https://docs.px.dev/reference/api/
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/pixie-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/pixie-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/pixie-finops.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/pixie-capability-edges.yml
  name: Pixie Business Capability Map
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.px.dev
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.px.dev/reference/api/overview/
- type: Support
  url: https://px.dev/community/
- type: Packages
  url: packages/pixie-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/pixie-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/pixie-cli.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/pixie-conventions.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/pixie-changelog.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/pixie-conformance.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/pixie-well-known.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/pixie-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/pixie-io/pixie/issues
- type: Releases
  url: https://github.com/pixie-io/pixie/releases
- type: SecurityPolicy
  url: https://github.com/pixie-io/pixie/blob/main/SECURITY.md
- type: CodeOfConduct
  url: https://github.com/pixie-io/pixie/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- type: ContributionGuide
  url: https://github.com/pixie-io/pixie/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
- type: License
  name: Apache-2.0
  url: https://github.com/pixie-io/pixie/blob/main/LICENSE
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/pixie-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/pixie-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/pixie-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pixieai
- type: Website
  url: https://px.dev/
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/pixie-context.jsonld
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/pixie-pxl-script-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/pixie-plugin-schema.json
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.px.dev/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.px.dev/installing-pixie/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/pixie-io
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/pixie-io/pixie
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.px.dev/
- type: Community
  url: https://px.dev/community/
- type: Slack
  url: https://slackin.px.dev/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Pixie API — frequently asked questions

Does Pixie have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Pixie, including Pixie PxL Script API, Pixie Plugin System API and Pixie Clusters API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Pixie API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for Pixie, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Pixie API?

Pixie uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Pixie Authentication.

How much does the Pixie API cost?

APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for Pixie, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Pixie API ready for AI agents?

Pixie has a Kin Score of 47.3 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 26.1 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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