API

The Infracost Cloud API enables you to programmatically manage tagging policies (email hello@infracost.io if you're interested in managing other resources via our API). Large enterprises often use ServiceNow as the source of truth for their application names or service IDs. FinOps teams need resources to be tagged with the correct application/service values so showback reports can be created. Enterprises usually have thousands of applications, so it's easy to have typos, incorrect capital letters, dashes and hyphens mixed up in these values when engineers are writing infra-as-code. That creates a mess that FinOps teams have to deal with, and fixing typos isn't fun for any engineer.

The best way to fix this problem is to address the root cause: validate the tag values when the code is being written. That is why we built this API, so enterprises can regularly push thousands of tag values to Infracost and it will automatically validate them in pull requests.

This has two key benefits:

Engineers get the fastest-possible feedback loop, at the right time in the right place (engineering workflow). You can customize the message engineers see, for example, "The application ID isn't valid, please ensure your application is registered at https://services.acme-inc.com/list".
FinOps teams to see the percentage of resources that are tagged with correct values, and guess what, it automatically improves over time! No more chasing engineers and creating Jira tasks for this mundane stuff.

Usage

Log in to Infracost Cloud and go to Org Settings > API tokens > Create service account. Creating a service account will generate an associated token, which can be used to authenticate API requests (note that the CLI token cannot be used with the API).
View the API docs to see how you can create, read, update or delete tagging policies. You will also need your Org slug to use the API, this is available from the Org Settings > General page.

For example, to update a tagging policy with a list of values:

Create a JSON file, tags.json, as follows:

{
  "data": {
    "attributes": {
      "tags": [
        {
          "key": "app_id",
          "mandatory": true,
          "valueType": "LIST",
          "allowedValues": [
            "app1",
            "app2",
            "app3",
            "app4",
            "app5"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

In Infracost Cloud, go to Governance > Tagging policies > my-policy, and note the ID at the end of the URL, for example, "e17b9d51-151d-4855-a17e-6349e485584c".

Use curl or any programming language to call the API:

curl -X PATCH \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data @tags.json \
  https://api.infracost.io/v1/orgs/MY_ORG/tagging-policies/e17b9d51-151d-4855-a17e-6349e485584c

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