Get started with the Chronosphere API

The Chronosphere API is an HTTP/JSON REST API, where the HTTP method and the URL path define endpoints. To access the Chronosphere API, you need an API token.

Create an API token

A service can access the Chronosphere API by authenticating with its API token. Many Chronosphere API requests require an unrestricted service account. For details, see Service accounts.

A user with sufficient permissions can access the Chronosphere API by creating a temporary personal access token. For details, see Personal access tokens.

Send requests

Send requests to your Chronosphere Observability Platform domain, which must include your Chronosphere API token in an API-Token HTTP header.

For example, you can pass the token and domain using environment variables to the curl command:

export CHRONOSPHERE_API_TOKEN="TOKEN"
export CHRONOSPHERE_DOMAIN="INSTANCE.chronosphere.io"
curl -H "API-Token: ${CHRONOSPHERE_API_TOKEN}" \
     -X METHOD \
     "https://${CHRONOSPHERE_DOMAIN}/ENDPOINT_PATH"

Replace the following:

• TOKEN: Your API token.
• INSTANCE: The subdomain name for your organization's Observability Platform instance.
• METHOD: The HTTP method to use with the request, such as GET or POST.
• ENDPOINT_PATH: The specific endpoint you want to access.

For example, to list all collections:

curl -H "API-Token: ${CHRONOSPHERE_API_TOKEN}" \
     -X GET \
     "https://${CHRONOSPHERE_DOMAIN}/api/v1/config/collections"

To create a collection, send a POST request with JSON body:

curl -H "API-Token: ${CHRONOSPHERE_API_TOKEN}" \
     -X POST \
     --data '{"collection": {"name": "My Test Collection"}}' \
     "https://${CHRONOSPHERE_DOMAIN}/api/v1/config/collections"

Use an API token

You can use an API token to make HTTP API calls.

For HTTP calls, use the Authorization header with the Bearer token authentication scheme.

For example, to use the API token to call the Query API with curl, run:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ${CHRONOSPHERE_API_TOKEN}" "https://${CHRONOSPHERE_DOMAIN}.chronosphere.io/data/metrics/api/v1/query?query=up"

Available endpoints

For a full list of Chronosphere API endpoints, see: