ControlUp for Compliance Announces Direct Index API Access
ControlUp for Compliance provides an unparalleled, real-time view of your organization’s compliance posture. It’s a vast repository of critical security and policy metrics, audit logs, and configuration status—all stored in powerful, structured indices.
We are thrilled to announce a major improvement that will fundamentally change how your organization leverages this data: ControlUp for Compliance is opening up a broad set of its underlying data indices for direct access via a robust, new API.
This release is a game-changer for compliance officers, security analysts, and IT governance teams. It transforms compliance data from a monitoring platform to a fully queryable source of enterprise intelligence, ready to integrate into any internal or third-party system.
What This Means for Your Organization
ControlUp for Compliance collects thousands of data points across your environment—from policy adherence checks and configuration drift alerts and vulnerability findings. Until now, accessing this deep, granular data outside of the ControlUp console often required custom reporting or specialized integrations.
With the new compliance public API, you can bypass those steps and directly query the raw data indices. This unlocks several new possibilities:
- Unified Reporting & Governance Dashboards: Integrate compliance data seamlessly into your existing BI platforms like Power BI, Tableau, or Splunk. Combine compliance metrics, risk assessments, or incident reports to create a complete picture of organizational security and regulatory posture.
- Automated Risk Response: Build sophisticated custom automations. For instance, query the /{devices}/patches to pull all patches and open a ticket or create a “todo list”.
Get Started: Test with Postman in Minutes
The new API endpoints are built on modern REST principles, making them intuitive and powerful. For technical users, the best part is the ability to test and explore your data structure immediately with common API tools.
You can use Postman, Insomnia, or simple cURL commands to validate, structure, and refine your queries before you even write a single line of production code.
A Sneak Peek at Testing
Once you generate your API key (available in the ControlUp ONE Platform settings), you can begin querying your compliance data indices. For example, you could use Postman to make a POST request to the relevant Data Access Layer (DAL) endpoint, structuring your query body to specify the exact index and metrics you need.
This hands-on approach allows you to:
- Discover all available compliance-related indices and their schemas.
- Experiment with filtering, sorting, and aggregation parameters.
- Prototype new integrations in a sandbox environment before deployment.
Ready to Build the Future of Compliance Management?
The direct index API access feature is more than just a new tool—it’s an open invitation to truly own your compliance data.
Visit our updated API documentation for a full list of available endpoints and data indices. Start building the custom dashboards, integrations, and automated workflows that move compliance operations into the era of autonomous compliance management.
Log in to your ControlUp console today, generate your API key, and unlock the full potential of your compliance data.
