title: Treblle Vocabulary
description: >-
  Domain vocabulary for the Treblle API Intelligence Platform covering
  API observability, governance, monitoring, and developer experience concepts.
created: "2026-05-03"
modified: "2026-05-03"

terms:
  - term: Project
    definition: >-
      A Treblle workspace entity representing a monitored API. Each project
      has a unique API ID and SDK token for instrumenting the target API.
      Projects capture all requests and provide analytics dashboards.
    tags:
      - Core Concept
      - Platform

  - term: API ID
    definition: >-
      A unique identifier assigned to each Treblle project, used when
      configuring SDK instrumentation in the monitored application. Combined
      with the SDK token to authenticate the Treblle SDK.
    tags:
      - Configuration
      - SDK

  - term: SDK Token
    definition: >-
      An authentication token paired with the API ID for identifying a
      Treblle project in SDK-instrumented applications. Enables the Treblle
      SDK to submit request data to the correct project.
    tags:
      - Authentication
      - SDK

  - term: Request
    definition: >-
      A captured API transaction in Treblle, including request headers,
      body, response headers, response body, timing data, IP address,
      and Treblle's analysis of 40+ data points.
    tags:
      - Core Concept
      - Monitoring

  - term: Endpoint
    definition: >-
      An auto-discovered API route detected by Treblle from live traffic
      patterns. Treblle automatically identifies and catalogs endpoints
      without requiring manual documentation.
    tags:
      - Auto Discovery
      - Documentation

  - term: Governance
    definition: >-
      Treblle's automated API quality checking system that runs 30+ tests
      against OpenAPI specifications, scoring APIs 1-100 and grading A-F
      across design, security, and performance categories.
    tags:
      - Quality
      - Standards

  - term: Governance Score
    definition: >-
      A numeric score from 1-100 assigned by Treblle's governance engine
      to an API specification. Broken into three dimensions: design score,
      security score, and performance score.
    tags:
      - Quality
      - Metrics

  - term: Alfred AI
    definition: >-
      Treblle's AI-powered assistant integrated into developer portals,
      enabling natural language queries about APIs, automated code generation,
      and intelligent documentation support.
    tags:
      - Artificial Intelligence
      - Developer Experience

  - term: Aspen
    definition: >-
      Treblle's native macOS API testing application featuring AI-powered
      capabilities, Collections management, automatic code generation, and
      privacy-first local operation.
    tags:
      - Developer Tools
      - Testing

  - term: API Intelligence
    definition: >-
      Treblle's core platform capability that analyzes 40+ data points per
      API request, providing real-time insights into API behavior, errors,
      performance, geographic distribution, and consumer patterns.
    tags:
      - Analytics
      - Observability

  - term: SDK Instrumentation
    definition: >-
      The process of adding a Treblle SDK to a REST API application to
      automatically capture request and response data. Treblle provides SDKs
      for Node.js, PHP, Python, Java, Go, .NET, Ruby, and API gateways.
    tags:
      - Integration
      - SDK

  - term: API Catalog
    definition: >-
      Treblle's workspace feature for publishing and organizing API documentation
      to improve discoverability across an organization's API landscape.
    tags:
      - Documentation
      - Discovery

  - term: Developer Portal
    definition: >-
      A Treblle-hosted or embedded interface powered by Alfred AI that provides
      developers with searchable API documentation, code generation, and
      integration support.
    tags:
      - Developer Experience
      - Documentation