Traversal

Traversal is an AI SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) platform that autonomously triages alerts, performs root-cause analysis, and helps prevent production incidents across an enterprise's entire observability stack. Founded in 2023 by AI researchers from MIT, Columbia, Berkeley, and Cornell and based in New York City, Traversal created the "AI SRE" category using causal machine learning and agentic AI. Its V1 Sessions API and hosted MCP server let teams launch investigations programmatically and from AI clients (Claude, Cursor, and others). Backed by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins (~$53M raised).

Traversal publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Sessions API. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, AI SRE, Site Reliability Engineering, and Observability.

Traversal’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, signup flow, changelog, and 19 more developer resources.

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43.2/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 34/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Company Artificial IntelligenceAI SRESite Reliability Engineering Observability Incident Management Root Cause Analysis DevOps MCP

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 43.2/100 · developing

Contract Quality 13.0 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 8.9 / 18

Access Clarity 2.8 / 18

Operational Transparency 4.9 / 12

Contract Governance 0.5 / 11

Discoverability 6.8 / 9

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 2.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 34/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 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

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.

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APIs 1

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

Traversal Sessions API

Create, list, retrieve, and continue investigation sessions.

Open Collections 2

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Traversal Sessions API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Traversal

Traversal operates an official hosted (remote) MCP server that lets any streamable-http MCP client — Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, OpenCode, ChatGPT, Windsurf, VS Code — ...

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 4

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

Traversal Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Traversal Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Traversal Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone

SECURITY

Traversal Trust Center

SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

OpenAPI

OpenAPI

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Idempotency

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Compliance

Compliance

Authentication

Authentication

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

StatusPage

StatusPage

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: traversal
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: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/traversal.png
name: Traversal
description: Traversal is an AI SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) platform that autonomously triages alerts, performs root-cause
  analysis, and helps prevent production incidents across an enterprise's entire observability stack. Founded in 2023 by AI
  researchers from MIT, Columbia, Berkeley, and Cornell and based in New York City, Traversal created the "AI SRE" category
  using causal machine learning and agentic AI. Its V1 Sessions API and hosted MCP server let teams launch investigations
  programmatically and from AI clients (Claude, Cursor, and others). Backed by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins (~$53M raised).
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/traversal/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- kleiner-perkins
- sv-angel
- sequoia
- nfdg
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enriched-from-public-docs
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI SRE
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Observability
- Incident Management
- Root Cause Analysis
- DevOps
- MCP
tags_raw:
- Company
- AI
- AI SRE
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Observability
- Incident Management
- Root Cause Analysis
- DevOps
- MCP
apis:
- aid: traversal:traversal-sessions-api
  name: Traversal Sessions API
  description: Create, list, retrieve, and continue investigation sessions.
  humanURL: https://docs.traversal.com/api/overview
  baseURL: https://api.traversal.com
  tags:
  - Sessions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/traversal-sessions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.traversal.com/api/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.traversal.com/api-reference/sessions/create-a-session
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/traversal-authentication.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.traversal.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.traversal.com
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.traversal.com/api/overview
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.traversal.com/get-started/quickstart
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.traversal.com/blog
- type: Support
  url: mailto:support@traversal.com
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.traversal.com/login
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/_original/traversal-sessions-openapi.yaml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/traversal-sessions-overlay.yaml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/traversal-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/traversal-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/traversal-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/traversal-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/traversal-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/traversal-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/traversal-changelog.yml
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.traversal.com
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/traversal-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: security/traversal-trust-center.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/traversal-data-model.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/traversal-authentication.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/traversal-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/traversal-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/traversal-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/traversal-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 16
  pass: local-v1

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