IBM Turbonomic is an Application Resource Management (ARM) platform that uses AI-powered automation to continuously analyze and optimize application performance and cloud costs across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. It provides a comprehensive REST API enabling programmatic access to resource management data, workload actions, markets, policies, groups, templates, and topology information.
Website: https://www.ibm.com/products/turbonomic
APIs.yml: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/turbonomic/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
- Type: Index
- Position: Consuming
- Access: 3rd-Party
- Application Resource Management
- Cloud Cost Optimization
- Cloud Management
- Hybrid Cloud
- IBM
- Kubernetes
- Multi-Cloud
- Workload Optimization
The Turbonomic REST API provides programmatic access to the ARM platform via /api/v3. It enables
automation of optimization actions, entity querying, market analysis, and policy management.
- Base URL:
https://{turbonomic_host}/api/v3 - Authentication: Bearer token (obtained via POST /api/v3/login)
- Documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/tarm/8.19.3?topic=reference-turbonomic-rest-api-endpoints
- Swagger UI: https://try.turbonomic.io/apidoc/
- OpenAPI Spec: openapi/turbonomic-rest-api-openapi.yml
Key Endpoints:
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
POST /login |
Authenticate and obtain bearer token |
GET /entities |
List all managed entities (VMs, containers, apps) |
GET /markets/Market/actions |
Get pending optimization actions |
GET/POST /groups |
Manage entity groups |
GET/POST /policies |
Manage automation policies |
GET /targets |
List discovery targets |
GET /templates |
List resource templates |
GET /topology |
Explore infrastructure topology |
Turbonomic ships with a Kubernetes Operator defining the Xl Custom Resource for deploying
the Turbonomic platform on Kubernetes.
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| capabilities/shared/turbonomic-rest-api.yaml | Complete Turbonomic REST API consumed definition |
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| capabilities/resource-optimization.yaml | Full resource optimization workflow (14 REST + MCP tools) |
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| json-schema/turbonomic-entity-schema.json | Entity schema (VMs, containers, apps) |
| json-schema/turbonomic-action-schema.json | Optimization action schema |
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| json-structure/turbonomic-entity-structure.json | Entity field structure |
| json-structure/turbonomic-action-structure.json | Action field structure |
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| json-ld/turbonomic-context.jsonld | Linked data context for Turbonomic resources |
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| examples/turbonomic-loginUser-example.json | Login and obtain bearer token |
| examples/turbonomic-getEntities-example.json | List managed VMs |
| examples/turbonomic-getMarketActions-example.json | Get pending optimization actions |
| examples/turbonomic-createGroup-example.json | Create a dynamic entity group |
| examples/turbonomic-getEntityStats-example.json | Get entity statistics |
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| rules/turbonomic-rest-api-rules.yml | Spectral ruleset for Turbonomic API conventions |
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| vocabulary/turbonomic-vocabulary.yml | Domain vocabulary for ARM concepts |
https://github.com/turbonomic — Includes kubeturbo, t8c-install, turbo-api, and more.
AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, VMware vSphere, HashiCorp Terraform, ServiceNow, IBM Kubecost
- Created: 2026年03月16日
- Modified: 2026年05月03日
FN: Kin Lane
Email: kin@apievangelist.com