Zerto

Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, provides continuous data protection (CDP), disaster recovery, ransomware resilience, and multi-cloud data mobility for on-premises and cloud workloads. Its ZVM (Zerto Virtual Manager), ZCA (Zerto Cloud Appliance), and ZIC (Zerto In-Cloud) appliances expose a REST API under /v1, authenticated through an embedded Keycloak OAuth2 identity provider. The API lets teams manage Virtual Protection Groups (VPGs), orchestrate non-disruptive failover tests and live failover/failback, browse recovery checkpoints, run file- and VM-level restores, manage long-term retention repositories, and consume alerts and events — everything the Zerto UI does, driven programmatically. Zerto publishes an official PowerShell SDK, plus Python, Ansible, Terraform, and Postman examples via its ZertoPublic GitHub organization.

Zerto publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Disaster Recovery, Data Protection, Backup, and Ransomware Resilience.

Zerto’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, authentication, changelog, support, engineering blog, and 16 more developer resources.

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26.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 6/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs

Company Disaster Recovery Data Protection BackupRansomware ResilienceBusiness Continuity Cloud Migration Replication Infrastructure

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 26.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 13.9 / 20

Access Clarity 2.4 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.4 / 13

Contract Governance 0.5 / 12

Discoverability 7.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 6/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 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

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APIs 1

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

Zerto ZVM REST API

REST API exposed by the Zerto Virtual Manager / Zerto Cloud Appliance for programmatic disaster-recovery management — VPGs, failover, checkpoints, VRAs, peer sites, alerts, even...

Security Posture 2

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

Zerto Authentication

oauth2/openIdConnect · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Zerto Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

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 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conventions

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

DataModel

DataModel

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Postman

Postman

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Support

Support

Community

Community

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: zerto
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
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'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/zerto.png
name: Zerto
description: Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, provides continuous data protection (CDP), disaster recovery, ransomware
  resilience, and multi-cloud data mobility for on-premises and cloud workloads. Its ZVM (Zerto Virtual Manager), ZCA (Zerto
  Cloud Appliance), and ZIC (Zerto In-Cloud) appliances expose a REST API under /v1, authenticated through an embedded Keycloak
  OAuth2 identity provider. The API lets teams manage Virtual Protection Groups (VPGs), orchestrate non-disruptive failover
  tests and live failover/failback, browse recovery checkpoints, run file- and VM-level restores, manage long-term retention
  repositories, and consume alerts and events — everything the Zerto UI does, driven programmatically. Zerto publishes an
  official PowerShell SDK, plus Python, Ansible, Terraform, and Postman examples via its ZertoPublic GitHub organization.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zerto/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- battery-ventures
- crv
- ivp
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Disaster Recovery
- Data Protection
- Backup
- Ransomware Resilience
- Business Continuity
- Cloud Migration
- Replication
- Infrastructure
apis:
- name: Zerto ZVM REST API
  description: REST API exposed by the Zerto Virtual Manager / Zerto Cloud Appliance for programmatic disaster-recovery management
    — VPGs, failover, checkpoints, VRAs, peer sites, alerts, events, tasks, and long-term retention. Authenticated via embedded
    Keycloak OAuth2 (bearer JWT).
  humanURL: https://help.zerto.com/
  baseURL: https://zvm.example.com/v1
  tags:
  - Disaster Recovery
  - Replication
  - Data Protection
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/zerto-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/zerto-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/zerto-problem-types.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/zerto-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/zerto-conformance.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/zerto-data-model.yml
  - type: X-MCPServerCandidate
    url: mcp/zerto-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.'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.zerto.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://help.zerto.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://help.zerto.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://github.com/saackerman/ZertoSwaggerAPI
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://github.com/ZertoPublic/zerto-api-quickstart
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/zerto-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/zerto-conventions.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/zerto-changelog.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/zerto-lifecycle.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/zerto-data-model.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/zerto-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/zerto-llms.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/zerto-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/zerto-packages.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/zerto-domain-security.yml
- type: Postman
  url: https://github.com/ZertoPublic/PostmanCollections
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/ZertoPublic
- type: Support
  url: https://www.zerto.com/support-and-services/support/
- type: Community
  url: https://www.zerto.com/myzerto/forums/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.zerto.com/resources/blog/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.zerto.com/try-or-buy/pricing-and-licensing/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.zerto.com/try-or-buy/try-zerto-free/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 16
  pass: local-v1

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