# Akita Software

> Akita Software was an API observability platform that used passive traffic
> monitoring to automatically discover, map and model APIs without code changes,
> SDKs or proxies. Postman announced its acquisition of Akita on 2023-07-19. The
> technology now ships as Postman Insights, and the agent is open source as the
> Postman Insights Agent.

STATUS: ACQUIRED AND WOUND DOWN. Akita has no independent API surface.
- The akita.software domain has EXPIRED. docs.akita.software,
  blog.akita.software, api.akita.software, app.akita.software and
  releases.akita.software all return NXDOMAIN.
- www.akitasoftware.com returns HTTP 403 behind a Cloudflare block to every
  crawler, so its current content is unreadable.
- The original Akita CLI repository is archived read-only (last tag v0.30.7,
  2024-05-21).
- Successor product: Postman Insights, in BETA, gated to a Postman Enterprise
  plan.

Generated by the API Evangelist enrichment pipeline on 2026-08-30 from this
repository's apis.yml and artifacts. Not published by the provider — Akita
publishes no llms.txt (its docs host no longer resolves).

## Successor product

- [Postman Insights product page](https://www.postman.com/product/postman-insights/): The successor to Akita, operated by Postman.
- [Postman Insights documentation](https://learning.postman.com/docs/insights/overview/): Beta. Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, EC2 and Elastic Beanstalk. Requires a Postman Enterprise plan.
- [Get started with Postman Insights](https://learning.postman.com/docs/insights/get-started/overview/): Setup per platform.
- [Data access and handling](https://learning.postman.com/docs/insights/data/access/): What the agent captures and how payload data is handled.

## Open source

- [postman-insights-agent](https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-insights-agent): Apache-2.0. The community build of the agent. Commands: apidump, ecs (add/remove/cf-fragment), kube, ec2 (setup/remove), specs get, ascii. Latest tag v0.40.1 (2026-03-26).
- [observability-cli](https://github.com/postmanlabs/observability-cli): The original Akita CLI (apidump / apispec / apidiff), formerly akitasoftware/akita-cli. ARCHIVED.
- [observability-shared-libs](https://github.com/postmanlabs/observability-shared-libs): Supporting Go libraries, formerly akitasoftware/akita-libs.
- [Akita Software GitHub organization](https://github.com/akitasoftware): 18 public repositories — Heroku buildpack, NGINX traffic-mirroring module, Docker extension, Kubernetes example, framework integrations for Flask, FastAPI, Django REST Framework and Rails. Most are archived.

## Calling the API

There is NO published OpenAPI, GraphQL schema, AsyncAPI, MCP server or A2A
agent card for Akita or for Postman Insights. The observability API host is
live but publishes no contract.

- Host (US): https://api.observability.postman.com
- Host (EU): https://api.observability.eu.postman.com
- Auth: `x-api-key` header carrying a Postman API key (POSTMAN_API_KEY or
  POSTMAN_INSIGHTS_API_KEY). Legacy Akita keys fall back to HTTP Basic.
- The endpoint surface recorded in this repository is DERIVED from the
  open-source agent's own REST client, not from a provider contract. Do not
  treat it as a callable specification.

## Install the agent

```
bash -c "$(curl -L https://releases.observability.postman.com/scripts/install-postman-insights-agent.sh)"
sudo POSTMAN_API_KEY=<your-api-key> postman-insights-agent ec2 setup --project <projectId> --repro-mode
```

## Repository artifacts

- packages/akita-software-packages.yml — Go modules, Homebrew tap, install script; with versions and dates.
- cli/akita-software-cli.yml — full command surface of both CLIs.
- changelog/akita-software-changelog.yml — the agent's tagged release stream.
- lifecycle/akita-software-lifecycle.yml — acquisition, archival and domain-expiry timeline.
- authentication/akita-software-authentication.yml — derived auth model.
- conventions/akita-software-conventions.yml — versioning, identifiers, reversibility, observed endpoints.
- errors/akita-software-problem-types.yml — the two named error conditions.
- well-known/akita-software-well-known.yml — the full probe record.
- plans/akita-software-plans-pricing.yml, rate-limits/akita-software-rate-limits.yml — honest zeros.

## Not available

- No OpenAPI, Swagger, GraphQL SDL, AsyncAPI or WSDL.
- No MCP server and no A2A agent card (probed 2026-08-30, no hits).
- No webhooks, no sandbox, no status page of its own, no SLA.
- No published rate limits and no published pricing.
- No security.txt, vulnerability disclosure policy or trust center on any
  Akita-controlled host.