# Pure Storage

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/pure-storage/  
**Website:** https://www.purestorage.com  
**APIs profiled:** 130

Pure Storage is an American publicly traded technology company specializing in all-flash data storage hardware and software products. The company provides enterprise data storage platforms including FlashArray, FlashBlade, and Pure1 fleet management, along with Portworx for Kubernetes data services. Pure Storage offers REST APIs, SDKs, CRDs, and developer tooling that enable programmatic management of storage infrastructure and integration with automation workflows across block, file, and object storage.

## Kin Score — 44.9 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.9 from 44.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 60.9 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 23.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 59.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

## Agent readiness — 35.0 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

Free · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (130)

- **Portworx Kubernetes API** — Kubernetes-native data services platform from Pure Storage. Portworx exposes its API surface through Custom Resource Definitions managed by the libopenstorage operator and the p...
- **Pure Storage Active Directory API** — Active Directory configuration authenticates users for NFS using Kerberos or SMB using Kerberos or New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM). Active Directory is also used to authorize ...
- **Pure Storage Administrators API** — The FlashArray has a single default administrative account named pureuser. The administrator can add, delete, and modify administrators on the array. Administrators are assigned...
- **Pure Storage Alert Watchers API** — Alert watchers receive email notifications when alerts occur on an array.
- **Pure Storage Alerts API** — Alerts indicate significant events that occur on an array, including whenever a component degrades or the capacity threshold of the component is reached.
- **Pure Storage API Clients API** — An API client represents an identity type. API clients are created on the array. To create an API client, register and then enable it on the array. After the API client has been...
- **Pure Storage Apps API** — Apps that extend array functionality can be integrated into the Purity//FA operating system.
- **Pure Storage Array Connections API** — Manages connections between arrays.
- **Pure Storage Arrays API** — Array features provide the ability to configure settings that affect the operation of the array as a whole and monitor array I/O performance.
- **Pure Storage Audit Log Target for File Systems API** — View and manage audit log targets that are filesystems. These are filesystems where audit logs will be stored, and they may be configured in audit policies.
- **Pure Storage Audit Log Target for Object Store API** — View and manage audit log targets for object store. These are buckets where audit logs will be stored, and they may be configured in audit policies.
- **Pure Storage Audits API** — Audit trail records describe administrative actions performed by a user to modify the configuration of an array.
- **Pure Storage Authorization API** — Pure Storage uses the OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange authorization grant and JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) to authenticate to the Pure Storage REST API. Before you can exchange the ID token ...
- **Pure Storage Blades API** — Displays the detailed information of each blade in the array.
- **Pure Storage Bucket Replica Links API** — Object replication requires a replica link that connects a source bucket to a remote bucket. The configuration of a replica link includes remote credentials, bucket names, remot...
- **Pure Storage Buckets API** — Manages the creation, attributes, and deletion of buckets on the array.
- **Pure Storage Certificate Groups API** — Certificate groups, also known as certificate bundles, are collections of digital certificates. Each certificate can belong to one or more groups in order to serve different pur...
- **Pure Storage Certificates API** — Purity//FA creates a self-signed certificate and private key when you start the system for the first time. You can use the default certificate, change the certificate attributes...
- **Pure Storage Clients API** — Displays an NFS client’s performance metrics on the array for read, write, and meta operations.
- **Pure Storage Connections API** — A connection gives hosts access to volumes on the array.
- **Pure Storage Container Default Protections API** — Default protection is a list of protection groups that are applied to newly created volumes. Volumes can opt out of the default protection at creation. The pod's `default_protec...
- **Pure Storage Controllers API** — Controller data includes the name, mode, FlashArray model, Purity//FA software version, and status of each controller in the array.
- **Pure Storage Directories API** — Important file system directories should be set up as managed directories. Managed directories can have policies attached to them. Managed directories differ from standard direc...
- **Pure Storage Directory Exports API** — Managed directory exports are created by adding NFS or SMB export policies to managed directories.
- **Pure Storage Directory Quotas API** — Directory quotas provide the ability to set capacity limits on managed directories.
- **Pure Storage Directory Services API** — Manages directory service configurations for integration with LDAP servers (e.g. Active Directory and OpenLDAP) in order to support various array services.
- **Pure Storage Directory Snapshots API** — Directory snapshots are created manually or by adding snapshot policies to managed directories. Each snapshot policy can be re-used for multiple directories.
- **Pure Storage DNS API** — DNS attributes include the domain suffix, static name servers, mode (static or DHCP), and search domain. The configured attributes can be listed.
- **Pure Storage Drives API** — Drive data includes the name, type, status, capacity, protocol and other information for all flash, NVRAM, and cache modules in an array.
- **Pure Storage File System Exports API** — Manages the creation, attributes, and deletion of file system exports. Exports link either an NFS Export Policy or a SMB Client Policy, a file system, and a server.
- **Pure Storage File System Junctions API** — Manages the creation, and deletion of file system junctions. Junctions link a specific path in the origin file system to the root of a destination file system.
- **Pure Storage File System Replica Links API** — File system replication requires a replica link that connects a source array to a remote target. The configuration of a replica link includes policies, file system names, remote...
- **Pure Storage File System Snapshots API** — A file system snapshot is a point-in-time copy of a file system. Multiple snapshots of a file system can be copied for different points in time. A snapshot policy can also be ap...
- **Pure Storage File Systems API** — A FlashArray can contain up to 24 separate file systems, each with a number of directories that can be exported via supported protocols. Clients, using Active Directory or LDAP,...
- **Pure Storage Files API** — The Files API from Pure Storage — 1 operation(s) for files.
- **Pure Storage Fleets API** — A fleet is a collection of Arrays.
- **Pure Storage Hardware API** — Operational status is reported by most of the hardware components in an array, including the chassis, controller, and storage shelf.
- **Pure Storage Hardware Connectors API** — The endpoints are deprecated. Use the endpoints under Network Interfaces instead. Manages the port connector attributes on the array. Lane speeds and port count attributes can b...
- **Pure Storage Host Groups API** — Host groups implement consistent connections between a set of hosts and one or more volumes. Connections are consistent in the sense that all hosts associated with a host group ...
- **Pure Storage Hosts API** — Hosts organize the storage network addresses (iSCSI Qualified Names, NVMe qualified names, or Fibre Channel world wide names) of client computers to identify the host's intiator...
- …and 90 more, listed in full on the page.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Pure Storage Agentic Access** — 1309 operations · 756 acting · 18 human-in-the-loop

## Security (3)

- **Pure Storage Authentication** — apiKey · 3 schemes
- **Pure Storage Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Pure Storage Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Pure Storage Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (7)

- **Database Storage** — High-performance storage for SQL Server, Oracle, SAP HANA, PostgreSQL, and other database workloads.
- **VMware and Virtualization** — Storage backend for VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM, and Nutanix virtualization platforms.
- **AI and Machine Learning Pipelines** — FlashBlade powers training datasets, vector search, embedding pipelines, and RAG architectures.
- **Backup and Disaster Recovery** — Snapshot-based backup, replication, and SafeMode immutable snapshots for ransomware recovery.
- **Cloud Block Storage** — Cloud Block Store extends Pure Storage to AWS, Azure, and other public clouds.
- **Container and Kubernetes Storage** — Portworx provides dynamic provisioning, snapshots, and DR for Kubernetes stateful workloads.
- **Fleet Capacity Planning** — Pure1 telemetry feeds capacity forecasting, performance analysis, and lifecycle management.

## Tags

Storage, Data Storage, Flash Storage, Enterprise Storage, Cloud Storage, Object Storage, File Storage, Block Storage, Kubernetes Storage, Infrastructure

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