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 is listed with 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 4/100 human only Front door AI 2/6 trace Heartbeat 72/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API 4 Agent Skills

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

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 26.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 11.8 / 17

Access Clarity 2.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.5 / 15

Agent readiness — 4/100 · human only

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

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)

10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 11.8 — up to +17.6 composite points
Contract Governance scores 4.5 — up to +11.5 composite points

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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...

Agent Skills 4

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Authenticate to the Zerto API

AGENT SKILL

Run a non-disruptive failover test

AGENT SKILL

Triage and dismiss alerts

AGENT SKILL

Report every VPG and its RPO

AGENT SKILL

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: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  try_now_blocked_by: example-domain
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  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

Zerto API — frequently asked questions

Does Zerto have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Zerto, including Zerto ZVM REST API.

How do I authenticate with the Zerto API?

Zerto uses bearer-token authentication (oauth2/openIdConnect · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Zerto Authentication.

Is the Zerto API ready for AI agents?

Zerto has a Kin Score of 26.8 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 4.1 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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