Contrast Agent Dashboard API

Name: Contrast Agent Dashboard API API
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★ Only Publicly Available OpenAPI DocumentSecurityVulnerability ManagementapiKey9 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Inventory Contrast Security agents across applications and servers and inspect each agent's effective configuration. Authenticate with Contrast API-Key plus an Authorization header.

Quickstart

Get started with Contrast Agent Dashboard API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"list contrast security agents"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Contrast Agent Dashboard API API.

List agents deployed in a Contrast organisation with grouping by application, server, or hostname

Read the latest agent versions available for upgrade planning

Retrieve a specific agent instance's status on a specific application

Inspect the effective configuration in force for an agent on an application

GET STARTED

Start building with Contrast Agent Dashboard API API

Explore with Jentic

View OpenAPI Document

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI document for Contrast Agent Dashboard API, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for Contrast Agent Dashboard API, keeping it validated and agent-ready. The Contrast Agent Dashboard API exposes the inventory of Contrast Security agents deployed across an organisation's applications, servers, and hostnames, plus the effective configuration that each agent is running. Authentication uses both an API-Key header and a separate Authorization header, with the base URL configurable per Contrast instance for SaaS or hosted deployments.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Contrast Agent Dashboard API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Agent Coverage and Drift Audit

Security operations teams use the Agent Dashboard API to confirm that every production application in scope is reporting a Contrast agent and that the deployed agent version is within policy. Endpoints group agents by application, server, and hostname to surface coverage gaps and drift. This gives auditors a programmatic answer to 'is Contrast running everywhere we expect?' rather than a manual spreadsheet.

GET /api/v4/organizations/{organizationId}/agents/applications-group-by, then GET /api/v4/organizations/{organizationId}/agents/latest-versions, and report applications running an agent version older than the latest

Configuration Override Review

Application security engineers review which Contrast agents have configuration values overridden from defaults — a common source of detection gaps when teams disable rules. The effective-config and overridden endpoints make this review automated rather than per-application clicking, and the result feeds change-control records for each application.

GET /api/v4/organizations/{organizationId}/agents/{agentReportingInstanceId}/applications/{applicationId}/effective-config/overridden for each agent and flag any agents with disabled detection rules

Hostname Inventory Mapping

Infrastructure teams cross-reference the Contrast server inventory with their CMDB to ensure each running host has a known owner. GET /api/v4/organizations/{organizationId}/servers/hostnames returns the hostnames Contrast is reporting from, which can be diffed against CMDB data to find rogue hosts or hosts missing the agent. This avoids relying on agent self-reports alone.

GET /api/v4/organizations/{organizationId}/servers/hostnames and join the result against a CMDB export to flag hosts present in CMDB but missing in Contrast

AI Agent SecOps Helper via Jentic

An AI agent supporting security operations uses Jentic to answer questions about Contrast deployment without engineers logging into the dashboard. The agent searches Jentic for 'list contrast agents', loads the schema, and queries the organisation's agents and effective config. Through Jentic the API-Key and Authorization headers are stored in the MAXsystem vault and never enter the agent's context.

Search Jentic for 'list contrast security agents', execute with the organizationId, and return a table of agents with their version and reporting host

Key Endpoints

9 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for contrast agent dashboard api, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/api/v4/organizations/{organizationId}/agents

List agents in an organisation

GET

/api/v4/organizations/{organizationId}/agents/latest-versions

Get latest available agent versions

GET

/api/v4/organizations/{organizationId}/agents/applications-group-by

Group agents by application

GET

/api/v4/organizations/{organizationId}/agents/servers-group-by

Group agents by server

GET

/api/v4/organizations/{organizationId}/agents/hostnames-group-by

Group agents by hostname

GET

/api/v4/organizations/{organizationId}/agents/{agentInstanceId}/applications/{applicationId}

Read a specific agent instance on an application

GET

/api/v4/organizations/{organizationId}/agents/{agentReportingInstanceId}/applications/{applicationId}/effective-config

Read effective agent configuration

GET

/api/v4/organizations/{organizationId}/servers/hostnames

List hostnames in the server inventory

GET

/api/v4/organizations/{organizationId}/agents

List agents in an organisation

GET

/api/v4/organizations/{organizationId}/agents/latest-versions

Get latest available agent versions

GET

/api/v4/organizations/{organizationId}/agents/applications-group-by

Group agents by application

GET

/api/v4/organizations/{organizationId}/agents/servers-group-by

Group agents by server

GET

/api/v4/organizations/{organizationId}/agents/hostnames-group-by

Group agents by hostname

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Contrast API-Key and Authorization headers are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault (MAXsystem). Agents receive scoped access at call time and never see the raw values, so a SecOps agent can call Contrast and unrelated tools in the same workflow without exposing the IAST credentials.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent (e.g. 'list contrast security agents') and Jentic returns the matching agents or effective-config operation with its input schema and the templated base URL parameter, so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing Contrast docs.

Time to first call

Direct Contrast integration: 1-2 days to handle dual-header auth, base URL templating, and response shape across the grouping endpoints. Through Jentic: under an hour to search, load schema, and execute.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Alternative

Snyk API

Snyk focuses on SCA and IaC scanning rather than runtime IAST agents.

Choose Snyk for code-level dependency and IaC vulnerability scanning; choose Contrast when the goal is observing running applications and their agent configuration.

Alternative

SonarCloud API

SonarCloud provides static code analysis rather than runtime application protection.

Choose SonarCloud for build-time code-quality and security findings; choose Contrast for runtime IAST visibility into deployed applications.

Complementary

Rapid7 API

Rapid7 covers vulnerability management at the network and host layer.

Use Contrast for runtime application coverage and Rapid7 for network and host vulnerability scans of the same estate.

Complementary

Tenable Nessus API

Nessus scans hosts for vulnerabilities, complementing Contrast's runtime application view.

Use Tenable Nessus for host-level scanning and Contrast for application-runtime IAST data on the same servers.

FAQs

Specific to using Contrast Agent Dashboard API API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for Contrast Agent Dashboard API?

Contrast Security publishes API documentation at docs.contrastsecurity.com but does not host a stable OpenAPI 3 file at a permanent URL. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call Contrast Agent Dashboard API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.

What authentication does the Contrast Agent Dashboard API use?

Each request must include both a Contrast API-Key header and an Authorization header containing the user authentication value. Through Jentic both credentials are held in the MAXsystem vault and applied at call time, so the agent never sees the raw API key or auth token.

Can I list deployed Contrast agents with the Contrast Agent Dashboard API?

Yes. GET /api/v4/organizations/{organizationId}/agents lists agents in the organisation and the applications-group-by, servers-group-by, and hostnames-group-by endpoints provide aggregate views suitable for coverage dashboards.

What are the rate limits for the Contrast Agent Dashboard API?

Contrast Security applies per-organisation rate limits sized to the customer's plan; precise limits are documented in the Contrast API reference and enforced with HTTP 429. Through Jentic, retries with exponential backoff are handled at the SDK level so transient throttling does not surface to agent code.

How do I check effective agent configuration with the Contrast Agent Dashboard API through Jentic?

Run `jentic.search('get contrast agent effective configuration')`, load the operation, and execute with organizationId, agentReportingInstanceId, and applicationId. Jentic resolves this to GET /api/v4/organizations/{organizationId}/agents/{agentReportingInstanceId}/applications/{applicationId}/effective-config.

Does the Contrast Agent Dashboard API support self-hosted instances?

Yes. The base URL is templated as https://{baseUrl} with a default of app.contrastsecurity.com but can be set to any Contrast instance hostname (Enterprise on-premises or hosted). Configure the baseUrl variable to point at your Contrast deployment.