Tracebit

Tracebit is a security-canary (deception) platform backed by Accel. It deploys realistic decoy credentials, secrets, and identities — canaries — across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Okta, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and workstations, and raises high-fidelity alerts the moment an attacker touches one during lateral movement or credential access. The free Community Edition exposes a public REST API (OpenAPI 3.1) for issuing and confirming canary credentials and reading alerts and their logs, alongside an open-source CLI, a GitHub Action, and a provider-published Agent Skill.

Tracebit publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Alerts API and Canary Credentials API. Tagged areas include Company, Cloud Saas, Security, Deception, and Canary Tokens.

The Tracebit catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Tracebit’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, and 24 more developer resources.

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56.6/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Front door AI 2/6 trace Heartbeat 78/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 published contract 3 Agent Skills

Company Cloud Saas Security DeceptionCanary TokensThreat Detection Cloud Security Incident Response

What this lets a business do 1

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

Cybersecurity Management

BC-620

AlertsCanary Credentials

POST /api/v1/credentials/issue-credentials

Kin Score

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

Composite quality — 56.6/100 · strong

Contract Quality 10.6 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 9.3 / 15

Access Clarity 11.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.6 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.4 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 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 0 / 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.

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
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
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
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 56.5 — up to +10.9 composite points
Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 26.3 — up to +9.6 composite points

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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
Agent Skills (SKILL.md packages)	builds-on	17.2 (thin)	-	1

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 2

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.

Agent Skills

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 2

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

Tracebit Alerts API

The Alerts API from Tracebit — 2 operation(s) for alerts.

Tracebit Canary Credentials API

The Canary Credentials API from Tracebit — 2 operation(s) for canary credentials.

Open Collections 2

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

Tracebit Alerts API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tracebit Alerts Canary Credentials API

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 3

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

tracebit-canaries

AGENT SKILL

Deploy Tracebit canary credentials

AGENT SKILL

Monitor Tracebit canary alerts

AGENT SKILL

Tracebit API pricing

Prices published by Tracebit, read 2026-10-28 from tracebit.com/pricing.

Plan	Price
Community Edition	$0 Includes: Deploy in GitHub repositories; Limited Canary Credentials; Canary automation with the Community CLI
Essentials	From $999 per month Includes: Cloud Infrastructure Canaries; Canary Credentials; CI/CD, SIEM and SOAR integrations; Terraform and
Enterprise	Custom Includes: Everything in Essentials, plus Kubernetes Canaries, Okta Native Canaries, Perimeter Sensors, canary

Plan details, limits and sources →

Billed by: subscription · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Tracebit Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Tracebit Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

Service Levels 1

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

Tracebit

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Tracebit Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Tracebit API Rules

47 rules · 44 errors 2 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Tracebit Community Overlay

6 actions · update · tracebit-community-openapi-original.json

DERIVED

Security Posture 3

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

Tracebit Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Tracebit Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Tracebit Trust Center

trust center published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

Lifecycle

DataModel

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

CLI

CLI

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: tracebit
name: Tracebit
description: Tracebit is a security-canary (deception) platform backed by Accel. It deploys realistic decoy credentials, secrets,
  and identities — canaries — across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Okta, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and workstations, and raises
  high-fidelity alerts the moment an attacker touches one during lateral movement or credential access. The free Community
  Edition exposes a public REST API (OpenAPI 3.1) for issuing and confirming canary credentials and reading alerts and their
  logs, alongside an open-source CLI, a GitHub Action, and a provider-published Agent Skill.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tracebit/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- accel
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  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
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 21
  pass: local-v1
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/663e4960fd682070c6a1bfdc/6a16ecb79f26e0be2459ffbd_tracebit-opengraph-home.jpg
tags:
- Company
- Cloud Saas
- Security
- Deception
- Canary Tokens
- Threat Detection
- Cloud Security
- Incident Response
apis:
- aid: tracebit:tracebit-alerts-api
  name: Tracebit Alerts API
  description: The Alerts API from Tracebit — 2 operation(s) for alerts.
  humanURL: https://community.tracebit.com/api-docs/
  baseURL: https://community.tracebit.com
  tags:
  - Alerts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tracebit-alerts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://community.tracebit.com/api-docs/
- aid: tracebit:tracebit-canary-credentials-api
  name: Tracebit Canary Credentials API
  description: The Canary Credentials API from Tracebit — 2 operation(s) for canary credentials.
  humanURL: https://community.tracebit.com/api-docs/
  baseURL: https://community.tracebit.com
  tags:
  - Canary Credentials
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tracebit-canary-credentials-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://community.tracebit.com/api-docs/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/tracebit-plans-pricing.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/tracebit-capability-edges.yml
  name: Tracebit Business Capability Map
- type: Website
  url: https://tracebit.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://community.tracebit.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://community.tracebit.com/api-docs/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://community.tracebit.com/api-docs/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://github.com/tracebit-com/tracebit-community-cli#getting-started
- type: Support
  url: https://tracebit.com/contact
- type: Blog
  url: https://tracebit.com/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/tracebit-com
- type: Pricing
  url: https://tracebit.com/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://community.tracebit.com/join
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://tracebit.com/legal/terms-and-conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://tracebit.com/legal/privacy-policy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.tracebit.com/
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/tracebit-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/tracebit-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/tracebit-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/tracebit-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/tracebit-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/tracebit-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/tracebit-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/tracebit-changelog.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/tracebit-cli.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/tracebit-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/tracebit-well-known.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/tracebit-data-model.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/tracebit-community-overlay.yaml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/tracebit-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/tracebit-llms.txt

Tracebit API — frequently asked questions

Does Tracebit have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Tracebit, including Tracebit Alerts API and Tracebit Canary Credentials API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Tracebit API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for Tracebit, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Tracebit API?

Tracebit documents its authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Tracebit Authentication.

How much does the Tracebit API cost?

Tracebit publishes its prices; its Community Edition plan is $0 as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Tracebit, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Tracebit API ready for AI agents?

Tracebit has a Kin Score of 56.6 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 25.4 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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