ARLAS API Overview

The ARLAS Server offers 6 endpoints:

• a collection API for managing collections (http://.../arlas/collections/)
• an exploration API for exploring, meaning searching and analyzing, spatial-temoral big data (http://.../arlas/explore/)
• a RATSER tile service for rendering RASTER tiles based on the collection and on a tile service such as WMTS or X/Y/Z service
• OGC/opensearch services:
  • a CSW service (http://.../arlas/ogc/csw)
  • a CSW opensearch service (http://.../arlas/ogc/csw/opensearch)
  • a WFS service (http://.../arlas/ogc/wfs/{collection}?REQUEST=GetCapabilities&VERSION=2.0.0&SERVICE=WFS)
  • an opensearch service (http://.../arlas/ogc/opensearch/{collection})
• an API for monitoring the server health and performances.
• an endpoints for testing the collection API and the exploration API with swagger.

Warning

All endpoints are not necessarily enabled. See the configuration for more details.

Monitoring

The monitoring API provides some information about the health and the performances of the ARLAS server that can be of interest:

URL	Description
http://.../admin/metrics?pretty=true	Metrics about the performances of the ARLAS server. Metrics about the collection API are prefixed with io.arlas.server.rest.collections and metrics about the explore API are prefixed with io.arlas.server.rest.explore
http://.../admin/ping	Returns pong
http://.../admin/threads	List of running threads
http://.../admin/healthcheck?pretty=true	Whether the service is healthy or not

Swagger

URL	Description
http://.../arlas/swagger	The web application for testing the API
http://.../arlas/swagger.yaml	The swagger definition of the collections/exploration API with YAML format
http://.../arlas/swagger.yaml	The swagger definition of the collections/exploration API with JSON format