# IBM Turbonomic

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/turbonomic/  
**Website:** https://www.ibm.com/products/turbonomic  
**APIs profiled:** 10

IBM Turbonomic is an Application Resource Management (ARM) platform that uses AI-powered automation to continuously analyze and optimize application performance and cloud costs across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Turbonomic provides a comprehensive REST API enabling programmatic access to resource management data, workload actions, markets, policies, groups, templates, and topology information. The platform integrates with AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, VMware, and dozens of APM and ITSM tools.

## Kin Score — 46.1 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 46.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 58.6 |
| Governance | 28.8 |
| Contract Governance | 28.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 45.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 47.4 |
| Access Clarity | 47.4 |

## Agent readiness — 19.8 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

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

## APIs (10)

- **IBM Turbonomic Actions API** — Retrieve, accept, and reject optimization actions
- **IBM Turbonomic Authentication API** — Authenticate and manage sessions
- **IBM Turbonomic Entities API** — Query and manage entities (VMs, containers, applications, storage)
- **IBM Turbonomic Groups API** — Create and manage logical groups of entities
- **IBM Turbonomic Markets API** — Access Turbonomic markets and projected states
- **IBM Turbonomic Policies API** — Manage automation and placement policies
- **IBM Turbonomic Statistics API** — Retrieve historical and projected resource statistics
- **IBM Turbonomic Targets API** — Manage discovery targets and integrations
- **IBM Turbonomic Templates API** — Manage resource and hardware templates
- **IBM Turbonomic Topology API** — Explore infrastructure topology and supply chains

## Agentic access (1)

- **Turbonomic Agentic Access** — 28 operations · 12 acting

## Security (3)

- **Turbonomic Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Turbonomic Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Turbonomic Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Turbonomic Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Application Resource Management, Cloud Cost Optimization, Cloud Management, Hybrid Cloud, IBM, Kubernetes, Multi-Cloud, Workload Optimization

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/turbonomic/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.