> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.e6data.com/query-engine/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.e6data.com/query-engine/developers/management-api.md).

# Management API

Automate e6data from your own code - manage clusters, catalogs, schedules, and access policies over the Management REST API.

Automate e6data from your own code: manage clusters and catalogs, wire up CI/CD, schedule refreshes, - all over the e6data REST API. This section is about **managing resources and automating workflows**; running SQL and connecting BI tools is covered separately.

## What this covers

| In scope                                                                            | Out of scope                                                                              |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Managing clusters, catalogs, schedules, and access policies over the Management API | Running SQL and connecting tools                                                          |
| Credentials and authentication for automation                                       | Account-wide admin (tenants, workspace lifecycle, SSO) - your e6data admin or the Console |
| Automation recipes (scale-then-suspend, scheduled refresh, CI gates, RBAC-as-code)  | Cluster and catalog concepts - the product docs                                           |
| A developer checklist (polling, errors, pagination, idempotency, secrets)           |                                                                                           |

**Audience:** application developers, data engineers, and platform/SRE teams automating against e6data. Everything here is self-serve and uses standard HTTPS + Bearer tokens.

## CLI and SDKs

There is **no separate CLI or SDK to install** - the programmatic interface *is* the REST API. Drive it with `curl`, your language's HTTP client, or a client generated from the API's OpenAPI/Swagger spec.

* **Codegen** - the Management API publishes an auto-generated OpenAPI/Swagger spec you can use to generate a typed client in your language.
* **Querying from code** - use `curl` or any HTTP client against the HTTP query API, or the e6data Python connector (a separate `pip`-installable package for executing SQL, not resource management).

## Reference

* **OpenAPI/Swagger** - available from your workspace API host for client generation.
* **Get your `<HOST>`, cluster names, and tokens** - the e6data Console → Settings.

**Placeholders used in this section:** `<HOST>` (your workspace API host), `<CLUSTER>` (a cluster name), `<CATALOG>` (a catalog name), `e6sa_…` / `e6pat_…` (your token).


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