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Palo Alto Networks Cloud API

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Palo Alto Networks Cloud API is one of 599 APIs that Palo Alto Networks publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Cloud. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 12 operations across 12 paths, and defines 14 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against the base URL https://{firewall}/api/.

12 operations 12 paths 14 schemas 8 GET4 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://{firewall}/api/
Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 12

Across 12 paths, the API surfaces 12 operations — 8 GET, 4 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Cloud 12

Cloud. 6 operations in this definition.

GET
/api/v34.03/cloud/discovery
Get Cloud Discovery Scan Results
get-cloud-discovery 11 params → 200default
GET
/api/v34.03/cloud/discovery/download
Download Cloud Discovery Scan Results
get-cloud-discovery-download 11 params → 200default
GET
/api/v34.03/cloud/discovery/entities
Get Discovered Cloud Entities
get-cloud-discovery-entities 11 params → 200default
POST
/api/v34.03/cloud/discovery/scan
Start a Cloud Discovery Scan
post-cloud-discovery-scan → 200default
POST
/api/v34.03/cloud/discovery/stop
Stop a Cloud Discovery Scan
post-cloud-discovery-stop → 200default
GET
/api/v34.03/cloud/discovery/vms
Get Discovered VMs
get-cloud-discovery-vms 7 params → 200default
GET
/api/v34.04/cloud/discovery
Get Cloud Discovery Scan Results
getApiV3404CloudDiscovery 11 params → 200default
GET
/api/v34.04/cloud/discovery/download
Download Cloud Discovery Scan Results
getApiV3404CloudDiscoveryDownload 11 params → 200default
GET
/api/v34.04/cloud/discovery/entities
Get Discovered Cloud Entities
getApiV3404CloudDiscoveryEntities 11 params → 200default
POST
/api/v34.04/cloud/discovery/scan
Start a Cloud Discovery Scan
postApiV3404CloudDiscoveryScan → 200default
POST
/api/v34.04/cloud/discovery/stop
Stop a Cloud Discovery Scan
postApiV3404CloudDiscoveryStop → 200default
GET
/api/v34.04/cloud/discovery/vms
Get Discovered VMs
getApiV3404CloudDiscoveryVms 7 params → 200default

Schemas 14

The contract defines 14 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are shared.CloudDiscoveryEntity (28 properties), types.DiscoveredVM (21 properties), shared.CloudDiscoveryResult (18 properties), common.OSDistroInfo (6 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

-_types.DiscoveredVM
array
prisma.ECSLaunchType
string
-_shared.CloudDiscoveryEntity
array
shared.ScanResultType
string
ScanResultType represents a cloud scan result type
string
string
shared.CloudDiscoveryEntity
object
CloudDiscoveryEntity holds data about a discovered entity
28 properties
-_shared.CloudDiscoveryResult
array
shared.CloudDiscoveryKubernetesMetadata
object
2 properties
types.DiscoveredVM
object
DiscoveredVM represents the information about the instance, fetched from the cloud compute interface
21 properties
common.ExternalLabelSourceType
string
ExternalLabelSourceType indicates the source of the labels
common.CloudProvider
string
CloudProvider specifies the cloud provider name
common.OSDistroInfo
object
OSDistroInfo represents information regarding the OS distribution
6 properties
common.ExternalLabel
object
ExternalLabel holds an external label with a source and timestamp
5 properties
shared.CloudDiscoveryResult
object
CloudDiscoveryResult represents a cloud scan result for a specific cloud provider, service and region
18 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

palo-alto-networks-cloud-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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API Details
ID
palo-alto-networks:palo-alto-networks-cloud-api
Base URL
https://{firewall}/api/
Docs
https://pan.dev/panos/docs/xmlapi/
Provider
Palo Alto Networks
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