API Overview - Griffin

The Griffin Hub exposes a REST API for managing monitors, viewing runs, querying metrics, and more. The CLI uses this API internally — everything you can do with the CLI, you can also do via the API directly.

Base URL

Griffin Cloud: https://api.griffin.dev
Self-hosted: Your hub’s URL (e.g., http://localhost:3000)

Authentication

All API requests (except the health check) require authentication. See Authentication for details.

Response format

All responses are JSON. Successful responses return the resource directly:

{
  "id": "mon_123",
  "name": "health-check",
  "frequency": { "every": 5, "unit": "MINUTE" }
}

Error responses include a status code and message:

{
  "statusCode": 404,
  "error": "Not Found",
  "message": "Monitor not found"
}

Endpoints

Monitors

Method	Path	Description
`POST`	`/monitor`	Create a monitor
`GET`	`/monitor`	List monitors
`GET`	`/monitor/by-name`	Get monitor by name
`PUT`	`/monitor/:id`	Update a monitor
`DELETE`	`/monitor/:id`	Delete a monitor

Runs

Method	Path	Description
`GET`	`/runs`	List runs
`GET`	`/runs/:id`	Get a specific run
`POST`	`/runs/trigger/:monitorId`	Trigger a manual run

Metrics

Method	Path	Description
`GET`	`/metrics/summary`	Get metrics summary
`GET`	`/metrics/monitors`	List monitors with metrics
`GET`	`/metrics/monitors/:monitorId`	Get detailed monitor metrics

Secrets

Method	Path	Description
`GET`	`/secrets`	List secrets
`GET`	`/secrets/:name`	Get secret metadata
`PUT`	`/secrets/:name`	Create or update a secret
`DELETE`	`/secrets/:name`	Delete a secret

Integrations

Method	Path	Description
`GET`	`/integrations`	List integrations
`POST`	`/integrations`	Create an integration
`GET`	`/integrations/:id`	Get an integration
`PATCH`	`/integrations/:id`	Update an integration
`DELETE`	`/integrations/:id`	Delete an integration

Notifications

Method	Path	Description
`GET`	`/notifications/rules`	List notification rules
`GET`	`/notifications/events`	List notification events

Locations

Method	Path	Description
`GET`	`/locations`	Get available executor locations

Health

Method	Path	Description
`GET`	`/`	Health check (no auth required)

​Base URL

​Authentication

​Response format

​Endpoints

​Monitors

​Runs

​Metrics

​Secrets

​Integrations

​Notifications

​Locations

​Health