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, AI, 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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47.3/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 60/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
AccessSelf serve
1 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyAIAI SRESite Reliability EngineeringObservabilityIncident ManagementRoot Cause AnalysisDevOpsMCP

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 47.3/100 · developing
Contract Quality 15.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 11.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 5.5 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 60/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 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
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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.

MCP Servers 1

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

traversal-mcp.yml

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
Conventions
 Idempotency
Idempotency
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 Conformance
Conformance
 DataModel
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)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: traversal
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
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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
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specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- 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
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- 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/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
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  date: '2026-07-21'
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