Zeebe
Zeebe is the cloud-native workflow engine that powers Camunda 8, providing scalable, resilient workflow automation and microservices orchestration without relying on a central database, enabling high throughput with horizontal scaling. It implements BPMN 2.0 process execution and provides a REST API for process deployment, instance management, job handling, message correlation, and cluster topology queries.
Zeebe publishes 9 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Cluster API, Deployments API, Incidents API, and 6 more. Tagged areas include BPMN, Camunda, Cloud Native, Distributed Systems, and Java.
The Zeebe catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
Zeebe’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, getting-started guide, GitHub presence, pricing, engineering blog, changelog, and 14 more developer resources.
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APIs 9
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Zeebe Cluster API
The Cluster API from Zeebe — 1 operation(s) for cluster.
Zeebe Deployments API
The Deployments API from Zeebe — 1 operation(s) for deployments.
Zeebe Incidents API
The Incidents API from Zeebe — 1 operation(s) for incidents.
Zeebe Jobs API
The Jobs API from Zeebe — 5 operation(s) for jobs.
Zeebe Messages API
The Messages API from Zeebe — 1 operation(s) for messages.
Zeebe Process Instances API
The Process Instances API from Zeebe — 3 operation(s) for process instances.
Zeebe Resources API
The Resources API from Zeebe — 1 operation(s) for resources.
Zeebe Signals API
The Signals API from Zeebe — 1 operation(s) for signals.
Zeebe User Tasks API
The User Tasks API from Zeebe — 2 operation(s) for user tasks.
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Postman Collections 9
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
Zeebe REST Cluster API
POSTMANZeebe REST Cluster Jobs API
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Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Zeebe REST API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Zeebe Plans Pricing
PLANSRate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Zeebe Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Zeebe Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Zeebe Api Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Zeebe API Rules
SPECTRALZeebe API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 7
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
ActivateJobsRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateProcessInstanceRequest
JSON SCHEMADeploymentResponse
JSON SCHEMAJob
JSON SCHEMAProcessInstance
JSON SCHEMAPublishMessageRequest
JSON SCHEMATopologyResponse
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JSON Structure 7
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Zeebe Api Activate Jobs Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREZeebe Api Create Process Instance Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREZeebe Api Deployment Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREZeebe Api Job Structure
JSON STRUCTUREZeebe Api Process Instance Structure
JSON STRUCTUREZeebe Api Publish Message Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREZeebe Api Topology Response Structure
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Examples 12
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Zeebe Activatejobs Example
EXAMPLEZeebe Api Job Example
EXAMPLEZeebe Gettopology Example
EXAMPLEZeebe Publishmessage Example
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Security Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 7
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API