openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: KServe Open Inference Protocol Health Metadata API description: 'The Open Inference Protocol (OIP), also known as the KServe V2 Inference Protocol, provides a standardized REST interface for model inference across ML serving frameworks. Implemented by KServe (CNCF incubating), NVIDIA Triton Inference Server, BentoML, TorchServe, and OpenVINO Model Server. The protocol defines health, metadata, and inference endpoints for both the server and individual models. An HTTP POST to the inference endpoint submits an inference request; GET endpoints retrieve health and metadata. KServe is a standardized distributed generative and predictive AI inference platform for scalable, multi-framework deployment on Kubernetes.' version: v2 contact: name: KServe Community url: https://github.com/kserve/kserve license: name: Apache 2.0 url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html externalDocs: description: KServe Open Inference Protocol Documentation url: https://kserve.github.io/website/docs/concepts/architecture/data-plane/v2-protocol servers: - url: https://inference.kserve.example.com description: KServe InferenceService endpoint tags: - name: Metadata description: Server and model metadata endpoints paths: /v2: get: operationId: GetServerMetadata summary: Get Server Metadata description: Returns metadata about the inference server, including its name, version, and the extensions it supports. tags: - Metadata responses: '200': description: Server metadata returned successfully. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ServerMetadataResponse' example: name: triton version: 2.30.0 extensions: - binary_tensor_data - classification - sequence - model_configuration /v2/models/{model_name}: get: operationId: GetModelMetadata summary: Get Model Metadata description: Returns metadata about a model, including its name, versions, platform, inputs, and outputs. Use this to discover the input/output tensor shapes and data types before submitting inference requests. tags: - Metadata parameters: - name: model_name in: path required: true description: Name of the model. schema: type: string example: resnet50-image-classifier responses: '200': description: Model metadata returned successfully. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ModelMetadataResponse' example: name: resnet50-image-classifier versions: - '1' - '2' platform: tensorflow_savedmodel inputs: - name: input_image datatype: FP32 shape: - -1 - 224 - 224 - 3 outputs: - name: class_probabilities datatype: FP32 shape: - -1 - 1000 '404': description: Model not found. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' /v2/models/{model_name}/versions/{model_version}: get: operationId: GetModelVersionMetadata summary: Get Model Version Metadata description: Returns metadata for a specific version of a model. tags: - Metadata parameters: - name: model_name in: path required: true schema: type: string example: resnet50-image-classifier - name: model_version in: path required: true schema: type: string example: '2' responses: '200': description: Model version metadata returned successfully. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ModelMetadataResponse' '404': description: Model version not found. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' components: schemas: TensorMetadata: type: object description: Metadata describing a single input or output tensor. required: - name - datatype - shape properties: name: type: string description: Name of the tensor as defined by the model. datatype: $ref: '#/components/schemas/TensorDatatype' shape: type: array description: Shape of the tensor. Use -1 for dynamic dimensions. items: type: integer example: - -1 - 224 - 224 - 3 parameters: type: object additionalProperties: true description: Optional tensor-specific parameters. ServerMetadataResponse: type: object description: Server metadata including name, version, and supported extensions. required: - name - version - extensions properties: name: type: string description: Server implementation name (e.g., triton, kserve, bentoml). example: triton version: type: string description: Server version string. example: 2.30.0 extensions: type: array description: List of protocol extensions supported by the server. items: type: string example: - binary_tensor_data - classification ErrorResponse: type: object description: Error response returned when an inference or metadata request fails. required: - error properties: error: type: string description: Human-readable error message describing why the request failed. example: 'model not found: bert-sentiment-classifier' ModelMetadataResponse: type: object description: Metadata about a model, including its versions, platform, and input/output tensor specifications. required: - name - platform - inputs - outputs properties: name: type: string description: Model name. versions: type: array items: type: string description: Available model versions. platform: type: string description: Backend platform (e.g., tensorflow_savedmodel, pytorch_libtorch, sklearn_sklearn, xgboost_xgboost, onnxruntime_onnx). examples: - tensorflow_savedmodel - pytorch_libtorch - sklearn_sklearn - onnxruntime_onnx - ensemble inputs: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/TensorMetadata' outputs: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/TensorMetadata' TensorDatatype: type: string description: Data type of a tensor. Follows the Open Inference Protocol datatype naming convention. enum: - BOOL - UINT8 - UINT16 - UINT32 - UINT64 - INT8 - INT16 - INT32 - INT64 - FP16 - FP32 - FP64 - BYTES - STRING