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title: "Introduction (Help Center / APIs & MCP / API Client)"
ai_context: "Use this article as a general starting point for the RUMvision Client API. It explains what the Client API is for, where API access is managed, and where organisation-level API keys can be found. Relevant for broad questions about getting started with the RUMvision API, finding Client API settings, locating API keys, understanding whether API access is available, and navigating to more specific API documentation. For questions about annotations, monitoring data, endpoints, authentication details, exports or specific integrations, prefer the dedicated help-center articles for those topics.\n"
canonical: "https://www.rumvision.com/help-center/apis/client/introduction/"
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# Introduction

The purpose of our client API is to allow developers to communicate with our system and automate processes. For example:

- get the domains a user can access;
- get and [add annotations](https://www.rumvision.com/help-center/settings/organisation/annotations/?format=md#api-annotations);
- retrieve detailed monitoring data;
- build dashboards in own tools.
 
Depending on your rights, you'll see an API keys hyperlink on organisation level in the left sidebar.

Continue reading about managing [API keys on Organisation Level](https://www.rumvision.com/help-center/settings/organisation/api-keys/?format=md).