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Kong Criteria Templates API

Several criteria templates are provided to help ensure your services adhere to industry best practices.A criteria template is a collection of criteria grouped together to target various categories.Criteria may require a specific type of integration be installed and authorized.For example, criteria which evaluates the operation performance across incident management may require a integration related to incident management to be installed and authorized.Learn more about scorecards by visiting our [documentation](https://developer.konghq.com/service-catalog/scorecards/).

Kong Criteria Templates API is one of 139 APIs that Kong publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.

Tagged areas include Criteria Templates. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a JSON-LD context, a GitHub repository, an API reference, authentication docs, and 1 JSON Schema.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 20 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 3.14.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, {protocol}://{hostname}:{port}{path}.

1 operations 1 paths 20 schemas 1 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
3.14.0
Base URL
https://konghq.com/
Authentication
API Key
Contact
License
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Kong Criteria Templates API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as Kong-Admin-Token (adminToken). By default, every request must be authenticated.

Paths & Operations 1

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Criteria Templates 1

Several criteria templates are provided to help ensure your services adhere to industry best practices. A criteria template is a collection of criteria grouped together to target…

GET
/v1/criteria-templates
List Criteria Templates
list-criteria-templates 4 params → 200400401403

Schemas 20

The contract defines 20 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are CriteriaTemplate (8 properties), InvalidParameterMinimumLength (5 properties), BaseError (5 properties), StringFieldFilter (5 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

InvalidParameterMinimumLength
object
5 properties 4 required
CriteriaTemplate
object
Representation of a criteria template.
8 properties 8 required
InvalidParameterChoiceItem
object
5 properties 4 required
InvalidParameterMaximumLength
object
5 properties 4 required
CriteriaTemplateFilterParameters
object
4 properties
ForbiddenError
UnauthorizedError
PaginatedMeta
object
returns the pagination information
1 property 1 required
StringFieldFilter
object
Filter using one of the following operators: eq, oeq, neq, contains, ocontains
5 properties
BaseError
object
standard error
5 properties 4 required
InvalidParameterDependentItem
object
5 properties 4 required
SortQuery
string
The asc suffix is optional as the default sort order is ascending. The desc suffix is used to specify a descending order. Multiple sort attributes may be provi…
InvalidRules
string
invalid parameters rules
CriteriaTemplateSchema
InvalidParameters
array
invalid parameters
BadRequestError
InvalidParameterStandard
object
4 properties 2 required
CriteriaTemplateName
string
Reference to the unique name of the criteria template.
PageMeta
object
Contains pagination query parameters and the total number of objects returned.
3 properties 3 required
BooleanFieldFilter
boolean
Filter by a boolean value (true/false).

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

kong-criteria-templates-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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