Spring Cloud Config

Spring Cloud Config provides server-side and client-side support for externalized configuration in a distributed system. It offers a central place to manage external properties for applications across all environments, backed by Git, SVN, or filesystem repositories with support for encryption, decryption, and runtime refresh.

Spring Cloud Config publishes 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Configuration API, Encryption API, Monitoring API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Configuration Management, Distributed Systems, Externalized Configuration, Version Control, and Java.

The Spring Cloud Config catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Spring Cloud Config’s developer surface includes authentication, engineering blog, documentation, getting-started guide, GitHub presence, release notes, Stack Overflow tag, and 13 more developer resources.

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37.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware self hosted · Apache-2.0 Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreemiumSelf serve

1 published contract

Configuration Management Distributed SystemsExternalized ConfigurationVersion Control Java Microservices SpringSpring Cloud

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Software Release & Deployment Management

BC-4210

Configuration

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 37.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.7 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 5.5 / 15

Access Clarity 1.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 3.5 / 10

Contract Governance 2.5 / 9

Discoverability 4.8 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.4 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · 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 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 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.

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 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% 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 Ask about this →
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) Ask about this →
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes Ask about this →
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0 Ask about this →
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link Ask about this →
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 6.4 — up to +18.7 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 36.9 — up to +12.6 composite points Ask about this →
Contract Quality scores 56.9 — up to +10.8 composite points Ask about this →

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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 4

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

Spring Cloud Config Configuration API

Fetch application configuration

Spring Cloud Config Encryption API

Encrypt and decrypt configuration values

Spring Cloud Config Monitoring API

Webhook and monitoring endpoints

Spring Cloud Config Resources API

Fetch resource files from the config repository

Open Collections 5

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

Spring Cloud Config Server Configuration API

OPEN COLLECTION

Spring Cloud Config Server Configuration Encryption API

OPEN COLLECTION

Spring Cloud Config Server Configuration Monitoring API

OPEN COLLECTION

Spring Cloud Config Server Configuration Resources API

OPEN COLLECTION

Spring Cloud Config Server API

OPEN COLLECTION

Spring Cloud Config API pricing

Not yet checked against Spring Cloud Config's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

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Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Spring Cloud Config's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Spring Cloud Config Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Spring Cloud Config Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Spring Cloud Config Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Spring Cloud Config Context

5 classes · 9 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Spring Cloud Config — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warn-severity 2 info-severity

SPECTRAL

Spring Cloud Config API Rules

8 rules · 2 error-severity 6 warn-severity

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

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

Spring Cloud Config Environment

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Spring Cloud Config Server Configuration

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Spring Cloud Config Environment Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Spring Cloud Config Encrypt Value Example

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Spring Cloud Config Get Environment Example

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 3

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

Spring Cloud Config Authentication

http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Spring Cloud Config Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Spring Cloud Config Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

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

Spring Cloud Config Agentic Access

13 operations · 3 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

GitHub

GitHub

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

Issues

ReleaseNotes

StackOverflow

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Maven Repository

Maven Repository

Source (apis.yml)

aid: spring-cloud-config
name: Spring Cloud Config
description: Spring Cloud Config provides server-side and client-side support for externalized configuration in a distributed
  system. It offers a central place to manage external properties for applications across all environments, backed by Git,
  SVN, or filesystem repositories with support for encryption, decryption, and runtime refresh.
deliveryModel:
  model: self-hosted
  license: Apache-2.0
  license_evidence:
    repo: spring-cloud/spring-cloud-config
    spdx: Apache-2.0
    stars: 2047
  open_source: true
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Self-hosted open source · you run it yourself
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - openapi
  - repository-license
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  try_now_blocked_by: loopback
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/spring-cloud-config.png
url: https://spring.io/projects/spring-cloud-config
created: '2026-03-26'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Configuration Management
- Distributed Systems
- Externalized Configuration
- Version Control
- Java
- Microservices
- Spring
- Spring Cloud
tags_raw:
- Configuration Management
- Distributed Systems
- Externalized Configuration
- Git
- Java
- Microservices
- Spring
- Spring Cloud
apis:
- aid: spring-cloud-config:spring-cloud-config-configuration-api
  name: Spring Cloud Config Configuration API
  description: Fetch application configuration
  humanURL: https://spring.io/projects/spring-cloud-config
  baseURL: http://localhost:8888
  tags:
  - Configuration
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/spring-cloud-config-configuration-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.spring.io/spring-cloud-config/reference/server/environment-repository.html
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/spring-cloud-config-environment-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/spring-cloud-config-server-configuration-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/spring-cloud-config-environment-structure.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: json-ld/spring-cloud-config-context.jsonld
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/spring-cloud-config-rules.yml
- aid: spring-cloud-config:spring-cloud-config-encryption-api
  name: Spring Cloud Config Encryption API
  description: Encrypt and decrypt configuration values
  humanURL: https://spring.io/projects/spring-cloud-config
  baseURL: http://localhost:8888
  tags:
  - Encryption
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/spring-cloud-config-encryption-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.spring.io/spring-cloud-config/reference/server/environment-repository.html
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/spring-cloud-config-environment-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/spring-cloud-config-server-configuration-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/spring-cloud-config-environment-structure.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: json-ld/spring-cloud-config-context.jsonld
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/spring-cloud-config-rules.yml
- aid: spring-cloud-config:spring-cloud-config-monitoring-api
  name: Spring Cloud Config Monitoring API
  description: Webhook and monitoring endpoints
  humanURL: https://spring.io/projects/spring-cloud-config
  baseURL: http://localhost:8888
  tags:
  - Monitoring
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/spring-cloud-config-monitoring-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.spring.io/spring-cloud-config/reference/server/environment-repository.html
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/spring-cloud-config-environment-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/spring-cloud-config-server-configuration-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/spring-cloud-config-environment-structure.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: json-ld/spring-cloud-config-context.jsonld
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/spring-cloud-config-rules.yml
- aid: spring-cloud-config:spring-cloud-config-resources-api
  name: Spring Cloud Config Resources API
  description: Fetch resource files from the config repository
  humanURL: https://spring.io/projects/spring-cloud-config
  baseURL: http://localhost:8888
  tags:
  - Resources
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/spring-cloud-config-resources-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.spring.io/spring-cloud-config/reference/server/environment-repository.html
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/spring-cloud-config-environment-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/spring-cloud-config-server-configuration-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/spring-cloud-config-environment-structure.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: json-ld/spring-cloud-config-context.jsonld
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/spring-cloud-config-rules.yml
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/spring-cloud-config/overview
- type: Plans
  url: plans/spring-cloud-config-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/spring-cloud-config-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/spring-cloud-config-finops.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/spring-cloud-config-capability-edges.yml
  name: Spring Cloud Config Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/spring-cloud-config-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/spring-cloud-config-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/spring-cloud-config-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/spring-cloud-config-authentication.yml
- url: https://spring.io/blog.atom
  type: Blog
- type: Website
  url: https://spring.io/projects/spring-cloud-config
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.spring.io/spring-cloud-config/reference/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://spring.io/guides/gs/centralized-configuration/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-config
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/spring-cloud
- type: Issues
  url: https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-config/issues
- type: ReleaseNotes
  url: https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-config/releases
- type: StackOverflow
  url: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/spring-cloud-config
- type: Maven Repository
  url: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework.cloud/spring-cloud-config-server
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/spring-cloud-config-vocabulary.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-parent: spring
x-relationship: product

Spring Cloud Config API — frequently asked questions

Does Spring Cloud Config have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from Spring Cloud Config, including Spring Cloud Config Configuration API, Spring Cloud Config Encryption API and Spring Cloud Config Monitoring API, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Spring Cloud Config API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 4 OpenAPI specifications for Spring Cloud Config, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Spring Cloud Config API?

Spring Cloud Config uses bearer-token authentication (http · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Spring Cloud Config Authentication.

How much does the Spring Cloud Config API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Spring Cloud Config, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Spring Cloud Config API ready for AI agents?

Spring Cloud Config has a Kin Score of 37.6 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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