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Follow a record into its fields, name the metrics, name the version
Three things the first export pass got wrong for a real study.

**Dotted paths.** A node returns a record, not a scalar — the numbers arrive
inside `final_metrics` — so `--metrics final_metrics.train_loss` yielded an
empty column and `--metrics final_metrics` yielded the whole record in one
cell. Both sides of the wide table now take dotted paths, and the defaults
reach the same depth: every number a result carries is a column named by its
path, and inputs are compared leaf by leaf, so two configurations differing in
one field give that field as the axis rather than two blobs that are merely
not equal. Lists stay whole — a curve belongs in the long table.

**`--list`.** Metric names are flow-qualified, so `--name train_loss` matched
nothing and said only that. `fluksio export metrics --list` prints the names
the selection carries, and an empty export made with `--name` points at it.

**A version to compare.** The CLI ships ahead of the engine and a stale one
answered a flat 404 with nothing anywhere in the API to tell how old it was.
The engine reports `version` on `/observability/summary`, `fluksio status`
prints it, and a 404 from export now names both versions — or says "older"
when the field itself predates the engine. Bumped to 0.1.5, which is what
makes the number worth reading.

Also formats `flow/metrics.py`, which had been committed unformatted and was
the last `ruff format --check` failure.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01A9Hdrmf2cwNABCnE5x9UJa
2026-08-27 20:42:19 +02:00

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# The HTTP API
Everything the browser does, the API does first. The dashboard is a generated
client of this schema, not a privileged path into the engine — so anything you
can click, you can script.
Base URL: `https://api.${DOMAIN}/api/v1`, or `http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1` for
a `fluksio serve` installation.
```sh
export FLUKSIO=http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1
```
## Authenticating
```sh
export TOKEN=$(curl -s -X POST $FLUKSIO/login/access-token \
-d "username=admin@example.com&password=..." | jq -r .access_token)
curl -s $FLUKSIO/users/me -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"
```
A bearer token, valid for eight days. `POST /login/test-token` checks one.
Password recovery and reset are `POST /password-recovery/{email}` and
`POST /reset-password/`.
Agents authenticate differently — see [Agents over MCP](agents.md).
!!! tip "The interactive schema"
When `ENVIRONMENT` is not `production`, the full OpenAPI schema is at
`/docs` (Swagger) and `/redoc`, and the raw document at
`/api/v1/openapi.json`. That is the authoritative reference; this page is
the tour.
It is closed in production on purpose: the schema enumerates every endpoint
the installation serves, including the paths webhook nodes mounted at
runtime.
## Flows
| Method | Path | What |
|---|---|---|
| `GET` | `/flows/` | every flow, with node counts, draft and running state |
| `GET` | `/flows/{name}` | one flow — the draft if there is one — with node status and issues |
| `PUT` | `/flows/{name}` | save a draft (`version` must match, or 409) |
| `POST` | `/flows/{name}/publish` | put the draft live |
| `POST` | `/flows/{name}/discard-draft` | throw the draft away |
| `POST` | `/flows/{name}/rename` | rename it |
| `DELETE` | `/flows/{name}` | delete it |
| `GET` | `/flows/node-types` | every node type and its parameter schema |
| `GET` | `/flows/graph` | every flow as one graph — what Home draws |
Reading a flow returns the *draft* when one exists, along with a preview of how
it would run: node statuses and validation issues for the version you are
editing, not the one running underneath it.
### Node source
```sh
curl -s $FLUKSIO/flows/house/nodes/decide/source -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"
curl -X PUT $FLUKSIO/flows/house/nodes/decide/source -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"code": "def process(x):\n return {\"y\": x * 2}\n"}'
```
`POST .../share` promotes a node's source to the shared library;
`POST .../unshare` gives it a private copy back. `GET /flows/library` lists the
shared sources and which flows use each.
### Running and controlling
| Method | Path | What |
|---|---|---|
| `POST` | `/flows/{name}/start` · `/stop` | activate or tear down its subscriptions and schedules |
| `POST` | `/flows/{name}/pause` · `/resume` | hold messages instead of running them |
| `POST` | `/flows/{name}/step` | release exactly one held message |
| `POST` | `/flows/{name}/validate` | the issues, without saving |
| `POST` | `/flows/{name}/run` | run every node once, from the values you pass |
| `POST` | `/flows/{name}/nodes/{id}/trigger` | feed values into one node |
| `POST` | `/flows/{name}/nodes/{id}/cancel` | kill the worker running it right now |
| `POST` | `/flows/{name}/nodes/{id}/acknowledge` | clear the failure the canvas is marking |
`POST /flows/{name}/run` on a **batch** flow submits a run instead, because
that is what running one means — the parameters, the series and the result are
the point, and a call that quietly did something else would be a trap.
## Messages
```sh
curl -s $FLUKSIO/messages/ -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"
curl -X POST $FLUKSIO/messages/house.setpoint -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"value": 22.5}'
curl -s $FLUKSIO/messages/house.temperature/history -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"
```
`GET /messages/` is the catalogue: every message any published flow declares,
with its last value. Publishing puts a value into the graph exactly as a
dashboard control does — which means only a message some flow *declares* can be
published to. Flows own the namespace; everything else is a client of it.
## Runs
| Method | Path | What |
|---|---|---|
| `POST` | `/runs/flows/{name}` | queue one run — `{"params": {...}, "seed": 7, "draft": false, "no_cache": false}`. `"cause"` says where it came from — `api` (the default), `cli` or `sdk` |
| `POST` | `/runs/flows/{name}/sweep` | queue many, sharing a `group_id` |
| `GET` | `/runs` | the queryable history: `?flow=`, `?status=`, `?group=`, `?digest=`, `?since=`, `?before=`, `?limit=`, `?offset=` |
| `GET` | `/runs/overview` | one row per flow that has runs, with how many are running or queued |
| `GET` | `/runs/export/metrics?…&name=&stride=&format=` | every selected run's series as one long table: `run, name, step, ts, value` |
| `GET` | `/runs/export/runs?…&params=&metrics=&format=` | one row per run: its inputs as columns, its final numbers, its status and provenance |
| `GET` | `/runs/{id}` | one run in full: params, result, per-node record, artifacts |
| `POST` | `/runs/{id}/cancel` | stop it |
| `GET` | `/runs/{id}/metrics?name=&stride=` | one metric's series, in step order; every series of the run without `name` |
| `GET` | `/runs/series/compare?ids=a,b,c&metric=&x=` | that metric across several runs. `x` is what to plot against: nothing or `step`, `time` (seconds since each run's own first reading), or another metric's name, joined on the step the two share |
Submitting answers immediately with a `queued` run. Wrong parameters — an
undeclared name, a value of the wrong type — come back as a 422 naming the
problem, before anything executes.
`?digest=` filters by the hash of the parameters, which is how you find "every
run that used exactly this configuration".
`?before=` is how a long history is paged: rows come newest first, so handing
back the last row's `created_at` reads the next page whatever landed
meanwhile — which `?offset=` cannot, since a run submitted between two pages
shifts every row down one. `?since=` is inclusive and bounds the other end.
Both exports stream `csv` (the default) or `jsonl`, and take the selection the
history takes plus `?ids=a,b,c`, `?since=` and `?until=`. `export/runs` puts
the inputs that *vary* across the selection in `param.` columns — the sweep
axis — unless `?params=` names them, and the run's numbers in `metric.`
columns. Both are dotted paths into whatever a node returned, so
`?metrics=final_metrics.train_loss` selects a field of a record and the
defaults reach every number inside one. The run id is on every row of both, which is what makes an exported
file a join back to the run rather than a loose table.
`compare` answers in the same shape a chart widget draws, so three training
curves side by side is a widget binding rather than a screen of its own.
See [Runs: pipelines that finish](../concepts/runs.md).
## Artifacts
```sh
curl -X PUT $FLUKSIO/artifacts -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
--data-binary @model.pt
curl -s $FLUKSIO/artifacts/sha256:abc... -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -o model.pt
```
Content-addressed, so uploading the same bytes twice stores them once. Node
code normally reaches these through `fluksio.save_artifact` /
`fluksio.load_artifact` rather than here.
## Dashboards and panels
| Method | Path | What |
|---|---|---|
| `GET` | `/dashboards/` | every dashboard, without its contents |
| `GET` | `/dashboards/{name}?draft=true` | the published document, or the editor's copy |
| `POST` | `/dashboards/{name}` | create one |
| `POST` | `/dashboards/from-flow/{flow}` | build `{flow}_results` from a batch flow's declared ports — a chart per streamed metric, a stat per output. 409 if it already exists |
| `PUT` | `/dashboards/{name}` | save a draft |
| `POST` | `/dashboards/{name}/publish` · `/discard` · `/rename` | |
| `GET` `PUT` | `/panels/` | which device shows which dashboards |
| `POST` | `/panels/pair` | start a pairing |
| `GET` | `/panels/pair/{code}` | what is holding a code |
| `POST` | `/panels/{id}/unpair` | drop this panel's credential, keep the panel |
## Secrets, modules, alerts
```sh
curl -s $FLUKSIO/secrets/ -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" # names only
curl -X PUT $FLUKSIO/secrets/influx-token -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"value": "..."}'
curl -s $FLUKSIO/modules/ -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"
curl -X POST $FLUKSIO/modules/apply -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"requirements": "numpy>=2\n"}'
curl -s $FLUKSIO/alerts/config -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"
curl -X POST $FLUKSIO/alerts/test/my-phone -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"
```
Secrets are write-only over the API: you can list names and set values, never
read one back.
## Observability
| Path | What |
|---|---|
| `/observability/summary` | engine health — always 200, degraded or not — and the `version` it is running |
| `/observability/timeseries` | executions and failures over a window |
| `/observability/flows` | per-flow rollups with a 60-slice trend |
| `/observability/runs` | recent cascades, with `?flow=`, `?since=`, `?until=` |
| `/observability/events?kind=failure\|audit` | what went wrong, or who changed what; narrows by `?flow=`, `?run=`, `?since=`, `?until=` |
| `/observability/dead-letter` | work the engine gave up on |
`GET /utils/health/` is the deep health check the container probe uses: it
fails when the event loop is wedged or the state backend is gone, not just when
the process is dead.
## Workers
| Method | Path | What |
|---|---|---|
| `GET` | `/workers` | what is attached, its labels and how busy it is |
| `POST` | `/workers/tokens` | mint a worker credential (superuser; shown once) |
| `GET` | `/workers/runtime` | the node runner's source, for a host without pip |
| `WS` | `/workers/attach` | where a worker dials in |
See [Remote workers](workers.md).
## Live events
```text
ws://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/flows/ws?token=<access token>
```
The websocket authenticates from its query string. It sends a snapshot on
connect and then every engine event: node executions, values published, health
changes, run started and finished. This is what the canvas and the dashboards
draw from.
## Errors
| Code | Means |
|---|---|
| `400` | the request was malformed, or the node refused it with a message |
| `401` / `403` | not signed in, or not allowed |
| `404` | no such flow, dashboard, run or message |
| `409` | someone else saved first — the body carries `current_version` |
| `422` | a parameter, port or binding did not typecheck |
| `503` | that subsystem is not available on this installation |
A 409 on a save or a publish is not an error to retry blindly: it means the
stored version moved past the one you were editing. Re-read, merge, save again.
## Generating a client
The frontend's TypeScript client is generated from the OpenAPI schema
(`make generate-client`). Any OpenAPI generator will do the same for your
language — point it at `/api/v1/openapi.json` on a non-production installation.