> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Syteca API Data Connector

> The Syteca API Data Connector is a stand-alone REST API for exporting Syteca monitoring data — Client sessions, user productivity, application and URL statistics, alert events, and access requests — into BI tools, custom dashboards, and SOC integrations.

## Get monitoring data out of Syteca, into the BI tool you actually use

Every monitoring platform eventually faces the same question: *can we get the data into our BI / SIEM / dashboard tool?* Some platforms answer with screenshot exports and CSV dumps; some hide their data behind proprietary report builders; some require a separate ETL product to bridge the platform to the analytics side. The buying conversation around data access is consistent across competitors: Securonix, Splunk, and other large platforms expose REST APIs but lock features behind enterprise tiers; CyberArk's analytics surfaces are mostly closed unless you pay for separate analytics modules.

**The Syteca API Data Connector** is a standalone REST API designed for one thing: getting structured Syteca monitoring data out of the Application Server so customers can use it for their own business intelligence purposes. The canonical example is **Power BI dashboards on user productivity** — but the same API surface also feeds custom security dashboards, SOAR playbook context, audit-evidence pipelines, and any other downstream system that benefits from session-level Syteca data.

<Info>
  **Use the Syteca API Data Connector when you need to:**

  * **Build BI dashboards on user productivity** — pull sessions, idle time, productive time, application usage, URL visits into Power BI / Tableau / Looker / etc. See the [Power BI example](/docs/api/data-connector/power-bi-example).
  * **Feed Syteca alert events into a SOAR playbook** — pull [Alerts](/docs/api/data-connector/endpoints/get-alerts) into Splunk Phantom, Cortex XSOAR, or custom incident-response automation.
  * **Build access-audit pipelines** — pull [Endpoint Access Control access requests](/docs/api/data-connector/endpoints/get-endpoint-access-requests) for compliance reporting (PCI DSS, SOC 2, HIPAA).
  * **Integrate Syteca data with custom systems** — your service desk, your HR analytics, your DLP correlation engine. Standard REST + API key authentication.
  * **Distribute monitoring data to multiple consumers** without each one needing direct access to the Syteca Application Server.

  **Pair it with [Account Discovery](/docs/pam/discovery/overview)** when building automated onboarding pipelines that combine discovered privileged accounts with their actual usage patterns from monitoring data.
</Info>

<Warning>
  **NOT AVAILABLE IN SAAS.** The Data Connector is a stand-alone component installed alongside the on-premises Application Server. SaaS deployments don't currently support it — contact your Syteca vendor for SaaS data-access options.
</Warning>

<Note>
  **Not currently supported in Multi-Tenant mode.** Single-tenant deployments only.
</Note>

## What's in this guide

| Step                                                                                     | Page                                                                                              |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Install** the Data Connector on a Windows host with IIS                                | [Install the Data Connector](/docs/api/data-connector/overview)                                        |
| **Manage** the Data Connector through the Management Tool                                | [Manage the Data Connector](/docs/api/data-connector/manage)                                           |
| **API reference** — authentication, base URL, common conventions, status codes           | [API reference](/docs/api/data-connector/api-reference)                                                |
| **Endpoints** — 9 REST endpoints for sessions, statistics, alerts, access requests       | See the endpoints listed on the [API reference](/docs/api/data-connector/api-reference#endpoints) page |
| **Power BI example** — end-to-end use case importing Syteca data into Power BI templates | [Power BI example](/docs/api/data-connector/power-bi-example)                                          |

## Architecture

The Data Connector is a standalone IIS application that authenticates calls against the Syteca Application Server using **per-user API keys**. Each Management Tool user has their own API key; calls inherit the user's permissions and data-visibility scope (Client permissions, User-to-User access).

| Component                           | Role                                                                                                                                            |
| ----------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Data Connector** *(this product)* | IIS-hosted REST API. Translates HTTP requests into Application Server queries. Exposes 9 endpoints at `https://<hostname>/ekranapi/...`.        |
| **Syteca Application Server**       | Source of all monitoring data. The Data Connector reads from it (does not modify). Requires Application Server version 7.14 or higher.          |
| **Management Tool**                 | Where the API key is issued (per user, on the Manage Account page) and where the Data Connector is registered after install (Applications tab). |
| **API consumer** *(your tool)*      | Power BI, Tableau, Splunk, custom dashboard, anything that speaks HTTPS — calls the Data Connector with the `ApiKey` header.                    |

<Warning>
  The API URL prefix `/ekranapi/` is a literal legacy identifier preserved in the current Syteca product. Use it exactly as documented — `https://<hostname>/ekranapi/sessions`, `https://<hostname>/ekranapi/alerts`, etc.
</Warning>

## Related

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  <Card title="Install the Data Connector" icon="download" href="/docs/api/data-connector/overview">
    Prerequisites, MSI installation, version compatibility, certificate setup.
  </Card>

  <Card title="API reference" icon="square-code" href="/docs/api/data-connector/api-reference">
    Authentication, conventions, all 9 endpoints, status codes.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Power BI example" icon="bar-chart" href="/docs/api/data-connector/power-bi-example">
    End-to-end use case importing Syteca data into Power BI templates.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Manage the Data Connector" icon="settings" href="/docs/api/data-connector/manage">
    The Applications tab in the Management Tool — register, view, deactivate.
  </Card>
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