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Kong Metering Events API

Metering events are used to track usage of your product or service. Events are processed asynchronously by the meters, so they may not be immediately available for querying.

Kong Metering Events 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 Metering Events. 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 12 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 12 schemas 1 POST

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 Metering Events 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 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Metering Events 1

Metering events are used to track usage of your product or service. Events are processed asynchronously by the meters, so they may not be immediately available for querying.

POST
/v3/openmeter/events
Ingest metering events
ingest-metering-events body → 202400401403

Schemas 12

The contract defines 12 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are MeteringEvent (9 properties), InvalidParameterMaximumLength (5 properties), InvalidParameterChoiceItem (5 properties), InvalidParameterDependentItem (5 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

InvalidParameterMinimumLength
object
5 properties 4 required
BaseError
object
standard error
5 properties 4 required
UnauthorizedError
InvalidParameterDependentItem
object
5 properties 4 required
ForbiddenError
InvalidRules
string
invalid parameters rules
InvalidParameterChoiceItem
object
5 properties 4 required
InvalidParameterMaximumLength
object
5 properties 4 required
InvalidParameters
array
invalid parameters
BadRequestError
InvalidParameterStandard
object
4 properties 2 required
MeteringEvent
object
Metering event following the CloudEvents specification.
9 properties 5 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

kong-metering-events-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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