# API

The Glass Data API is the main integration point between your company's systems and the platform. It is a REST API hosted at `https://api.glassdata.io`, consumed exclusively by your backend and authenticated with your own keys.

Through it, you:

- **Send business events** that feed the metrics and monitors in real time;
- **Register and update payments** for risk analysis;
- **Query the auxiliary resources** already registered, such as event types and fields, to validate your configuration before integrating;
- **Enrich entities** with custom metadata used in rules and metrics.

## Getting started

1. Generate a pair of credentials under **Settings > API keys**.
2. Review authentication and request standards in the [technical integration](/en/api/technical-integration/).
3. Explore the available operations, organized by resource, in the [methods](/en/api/methods/) section.

All requests use HTTP Basic and travel in JSON. Credentials must never be exposed in public clients.

## Table of contents

- [Technical integration](/en/api/technical-integration/index.html.md)
- [account](/en/api/account/index.html.md)
- [API keys](/en/api/api-keys/index.html.md)
- [Methods](/en/api/methods/index.html.md)
- [event](/en/api/event/index.html.md)
- [Metadata](/en/api/metadata/index.html.md)
- [list](/en/api/list/index.html.md)
- [payment](/en/api/payment/index.html.md)