NS1 API

Name: NS1 API
Brand: NS1 API
Availability: InStock

✓ Official Vendor SpecCloud InfrastructureNetworkingapiKey37 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Manage NS1 DNS zones, records, data feeds, monitoring jobs, teams, and API keys through 37 endpoints. Authenticated via X-NSONE-Key header.

Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the NS1 API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the NS1 API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with NS1 API.

Create, update, and delete DNS zones and individual record sets

Configure data sources and feeds that drive dynamic traffic-steering answers

Provision and tune monitoring jobs for endpoint health checks across NS1 regions

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Use Cases

Patterns agents use NS1 API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Programmatic DNS Zone and Record Management

Platform teams automate DNS provisioning by calling /zones and /zones/{zone}/{domain}/{type} from CI pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools. Creating a zone, adding records, and rotating values become idempotent steps in a deploy script, eliminating manual portal clicks. NS1's record types support standard A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, and TXT plus answer metadata for traffic steering.

PUT /zones with name=example.com then POST /zones/example.com/api.example.com/A with answer 192.0.2.10

Dynamic Traffic Steering with Data Feeds

NS1's signature capability is using live data feeds to drive answer selection. Operators register data sources and feeds via /data/sources and /data/feeds, then attach feeds to record answers so DNS responses shift based on latency, health, or custom signals. This use case turns DNS into an active load-balancing layer instead of a static lookup table.

POST /data/sources to register a Datadog feed, then POST /data/sources/{sourceId}/publish with a metric payload and verify the steered record updates

Endpoint Health Monitoring

NS1 monitoring jobs run health checks from regional probes and feed results back into traffic steering. Ops teams call /monitoring/jobs and /monitoring/regions to provision checks, choose probe regions, and inspect outage histories. Combining jobs with data feeds gives self-healing DNS that pulls bad endpoints out automatically.

POST /monitoring/jobs with type=tcp, host=api.example.com, port=443 and configure regions=us-east, eu-west

AI Agent DNS Operations via Jentic

SRE-focused AI agents use Jentic to run NS1 operations safely without holding the X-NSONE-Key in their context. The agent searches for the operation, loads the schema, and executes with credentials injected at request time, so it can rotate records or pause monitoring jobs in response to alerts.

Use Jentic to search 'add NS1 A record', load /zones/{zone}/{domain}/{type}, and execute with the record values

Key Endpoints

37 endpoints — the ns1 api (now ibm ns1 connect) provides programmatic control over managed dns, traffic management, and connected dns infrastructure.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/zones

List all DNS zones on the account

PUT

/zones/{zone}

Create or update a DNS zone

POST

/zones/{zone}/{domain}/{type}

Create a DNS record under a zone

GET

/monitoring/jobs

List monitoring jobs and their statuses

POST

/data/sources

POST

/data/sources/{sourceId}/publish

Publish data into a registered source

GET

/account/apikeys

List account API keys and permissions

GET

/stats/qps

Retrieve queries-per-second statistics

GET

/zones

List all DNS zones on the account

PUT

/zones/{zone}

Create or update a DNS zone

POST

/zones/{zone}/{domain}/{type}

Create a DNS record under a zone

GET

/monitoring/jobs

List monitoring jobs and their statuses

POST

/data/sources

Why Jentic?

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

Credential isolation

NS1 API keys are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault and injected as the X-NSONE-Key header at execution time. Agents receive scoped tokens but never see the raw key value.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search by intent (e.g., 'add NS1 A record' or 'create NS1 monitoring job') and Jentic returns the matching /zones, /monitoring/jobs, or /data/sources operation with its schema, so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing NS1 docs.

Time to first call

Direct NS1 integration: 1-2 days for key provisioning, record-type schema mapping, and 429 backoff handling. Through Jentic: under 1 hour — search, load, execute.

FAQs

Specific to using NS1 API through Jentic.

What authentication does the NS1 API use?

The NS1 API uses an API key passed in the X-NSONE-Key request header. Keys are scoped via /account/apikeys and can be restricted per resource. Through Jentic, NS1 keys live encrypted in the vault and the X-NSONE-Key header is injected at execution time so the raw key never appears in agent prompts.

Can I create DNS records programmatically with the NS1 API?

Yes. POST /zones/{zone}/{domain}/{type} creates a record under an existing zone, where {type} is the record type (A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, etc.). PUT against the same path updates an existing record.

What are the rate limits for the NS1 API?

NS1 publishes per-account API rate limits at https://ns1.com/api; limits depend on plan tier. The API returns a 429 with retry-after when an account exceeds its allotment, so clients should implement exponential backoff.

How do I set up traffic steering through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'NS1 traffic steering data feed', load /data/sources and /data/sources/{sourceId}/publish, and execute the pair to register a source and push values into it. The flow is pip install jentic, then await client.search, load, and execute.

Is the NS1 API free?

NS1 (IBM NS1 Connect) is a paid service with usage-based DNS query and feature pricing. The API itself has no separate fee but usage counts against the plan; current pricing is on the NS1 website.

Which DNS record types does the NS1 API support?

Standard record types A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, NS, SRV, and others are supported via the /zones/{zone}/{domain}/{type} path, with the {type} segment selecting the record type. NS1 also supports answer metadata that drives geo, latency, and weighted steering.

NS1 API

Connect the NS1 API to your agent

Capabilities

Start building with NS1 API

Use Cases

Key Endpoints

Why Jentic?

Related APIs

FAQs