A Public API for Your Cloud Cost and Carbon Data
Dashboards are great until you need the numbers somewhere else — your data warehouse, a Slack bot, an internal FinOps scorecard. CloudRift now has a read-only public API with customer-managed keys.
A dashboard is the right place to explore your cloud spend and emissions — until you need those numbers somewhere else. A weekly figure in Slack. A FinOps scorecard in your BI tool. A budget check in CI. For that, you need the data by API, not by screenshot. CloudRift now exposes a read-only public API with customer-managed keys.
What you can pull
- Resources — your scanned inventory with cost and orphan signals.
- Recommendations — the prioritized optimization actions, with estimated savings.
- Cost summary — spend rolled up for the account.
- Budgets — your configured budgets and where you stand against them.
Every response is scoped to the account that owns the key — you only ever see your own data.
How authentication works
You create an API key in the dashboard, choose its scopes, and pass it as a bearer token or an X-API-Key header to the /v1 endpoints. Keys are read-only, scoped, and revocable, with optional expiry, and only a hash of each key is ever stored — the plaintext is shown once, at creation, and never again. Revoke a key the moment it is no longer needed and it stops working immediately.
What you can build
- Sync cost and carbon metrics into your data warehouse alongside the rest of your business data.
- Post a weekly spend-and-savings digest to a Slack or Teams channel.
- Drive an internal FinOps scorecard or an executive dashboard from live numbers.
- Fail a CI check when a proposed change would push a budget over its limit.
Read-only by design
The public API can read your data but cannot change or delete anything in your cloud. Destructive actions stay behind the dashboard, its confirmation prompts, and the maker-checker approval workflow — so handing a key to an internal tool never hands it the ability to delete a resource.
See your own wasted cloud spend in minutes
Connect read-only, run a free scan, and get a prioritized list of savings with dollars attached.
The bottom line
Your cloud cost and carbon data is most valuable where the rest of your numbers live. Create a scoped, read-only key, pull the metrics you need, and put them in front of the people and systems that will act on them.