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Actian Data Observability Platform APIs

Data Observability offers APIs that allows users to: * Configure connections and assets * Trigger scan * Manage users * Retrieve result data

Authentication

Authentication can be specified through: * User name & password * API Key * API token

Please refer to Authentication API for more details

Available controllers

Actian provides the following controllers for APIs:

Controller Controller Endpoint Purpose
Authentication API {auth_endpoint} https://{Actian_endpoint}/api/auth Authentication and token creation
Configuration API {config_endpoint} https://{Actian_endpoint}/api/backend/ Configuring connections and assets
Analytics API {analytics_endpoint} https://{Actian_endpoint}/api/search Metrics access
Data API {data_endpoint} https://{Actian_endpoint}/api/data Upload management

These controllers can be used for the corresponding Actian instance:

https://{Actian_endpoint}/{controller_endpoint}/{function}

Headers

The following headers are always required when calling Data Observability APIs

Name Type Description
Content-type string application/json
Authentication string Bearer \. Access token from Authentication API