API documentation — Cronitor

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• API scope Report an error

  “The Cronitor API exposes the functionality and data available on the Cronitor dashboard, as well as bulk operations and other API-only features.”

• Mcp cli Report an error

  “The same resources are available to coding agents through the Cronitor MCP server and to the shell through CronitorCLI.”

• API keys Report an error

  “Every account starts with two API keys with different permission levels”

• Basic auth Report an error

  “Authentication to the API is performed via HTTP Basic Auth. Provide your API key as the basic auth username value. You do not need to provide a password.”

• Https required Report an error

  “All REST API requests must be made over HTTPS. Calls made over plain HTTP will fail. API requests without authentication will also fail.”

• Telemetry domain Report an error

  “The Telemetry API is hosted on a separate domain, cronitor.link, and uses an API key embedded in the URL to authenticate requests.”

• Scopes Report an error

  “monitor:read List and retrieve monitor details monitor:write Create, update, and delete monitors monitor:telemetry Send monitoring data (pings, metrics) issue:read List and retrieve issues (also used for maintenance windows) issue:write Create, update, and delete issues (also used for maintenance windows) statuspage:read List and retrieve status pages statuspage:write Create, update, and delete status pages site:read List and retrieve site monitoring data site:write Create, update, and delete site monitors integration:read List and retrieve notification integrations integration:write Create and delete notification integrations”

• API endpoints Report an error

  “Monitors API: Create, update, and manage monitors Telemetry API: Send monitoring data from your systems Metrics API: Retrieve performance and reliability metrics”

• Config APIs Report an error

  “Groups API: Organize monitors into groups for bulk operations Notifications API: Configure where and how alerts are sent Integrations API: List, create, and delete alert destinations Environments API: Manage deployment environments API Keys: Create and manage API keys with custom scopes”

• Incident APIs Report an error

  “Issue API: Manage incidents and maintenance events Maintenance API: Schedule and manage maintenance windows StatusPage API: Control your status pages”

• Sites API Report an error

  “Sites API: Manage RUM sites for web performance monitoring”

• API versioning Report an error

  “The current version is 2025-11-28. Requests without a version header default to 2020-10-01, the first dated release. To set the API version on a specific request, send a Cronitor-Version header.”

• Rate limits Report an error

  “The API has rate limits to ensure fair usage. If you exceed these limits, you'll receive a 429 Too Many Requests response. The response headers include information about your current rate limit status.”

• Browser API Report an error

  “You can visit any API resource in a browser to view the JSON representation of that resource, and test making API requests using a simple GUI.”

• Openapi Report an error

  “An OpenAPI 3 description of the REST API and the Telemetry API is published at https://cronitor.io/api/openapi.json.”

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