# Pixie

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

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.

## Kin Score — 35.1 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 35.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 55.6 |
| Contract Quality | 66.2 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 40.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 13.2 |
| Access Clarity | 13.2 |

## Agent readiness — 35.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| 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 · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (5)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Pixie Agentic Access** — 4 operations · 1 acting

## Security (2)

- **Pixie Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Pixie Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Pixie Plans Pricing**

## Tags

eBPF, Kubernetes, Monitoring, Observability

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