Cluster API v2.0

The CockroachDB Cluster API is a REST API that provides information about a cluster and its nodes. The API offers programmatic access to much of the information available in the DB Console user interface, enabling you to monitor and troubleshoot your cluster using your choice of tooling. The Cluster API is hosted by all nodes of your cluster and provides information about all nodes. The API is available on the same port that is listening for HTTP connections to the DB Console. This defaults to 8080 and can be specified using --http-addr={server}:{port} when configuring your node.

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Resources

The following endpoints are available as URLs under the /api/v2 base path (for example, https://localhost:8080/api/v2/health/). For more information about the support policies for endpoints, see API Support Policy. Each listed endpoint links to its full API reference documentation.

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Requirements

All endpoints except /health and /login require authentication using a session token. To obtain a session token, you will need:

• A SQL role that is a member of the admin role and has login permissions and a password.

To connect with the API on a secure cluster, you will need:

• The CA cert used by the cluster or any intermediary proxy server, either in the client’s cert store as a trusted certificate authority or as a file manually specified by the HTTP request (for example, using curl’s cacert).

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Authentication

To create and manage web sessions and authentication tokens to the Cluster API from the command line, use the cockroach auth-session CLI command. Alternatively, you may also request a token directly from the /login endpoint using the following instructions:

1. Request a session token using the /login endpoint. For example:
   curl -d "username=user&password=pass" \
   -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
   https://localhost:8080/api/v2/login/
   
2. Record the token (session value) that is returned.
   {"session":"CIGAiPis4fj3CBIQ3u0rRQJ3tD8yIqee4hipow=="}
   
3. Pass the token with each call using the X-Cockroach-API-Session header. For example:
   curl -H "X-Cockroach-API-Session: CIGAiPis4fj3CBIQ3u0rRQJ3tD8yIqee4hipow==" \
   https://localhost:8080/api/v2/nodes/
   

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Versioning and stability

The Cluster API version is defined in the request path. For example: <cluster/api/v2/health. Future versions of CockroachDB may provide multiple API versions and will continue to provide access to this v2.0 API until it is deprecated. All endpoint paths and payloads will remain available within a major API version number (v2.x). Patch versions could add new endpoints but will not remove existing endpoints. For more information, see API Support Policy.