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Indexima REST API allows programmatic interaction with Indexima clusters for cluster monitoring, configuration, and management tasks. The REST API base URL is http://<cluster_url>:8082 and all requests require an Authorization header with a token obtained from /api/login.

dlt is an open-source Python library that handles authentication, pagination, and schema evolution automatically. dlthub provides AI context files that enable code assistants to generate production-ready pipelines. Install with uv pip install "dlt[workspace]" and start loading Indexima data in under 10 minutes.


What data can I load from Indexima?

Here are some of the endpoints you can load from Indexima:

ResourceEndpointMethodData selectorDescription
connections/api/v1/connectionsGETRetrieve existing connections
indexes/api/monitor/get/indexesGETRetrieve all indexes in cluster
cluster_status/api/monitor/statusGETRetrieve cluster nodes status
cluster_nodes/api/monitor/get/nodesGETRetrieve list of all nodes
dictionaries/api/monitor/get/dictionariesGETRetrieve dictionary details
memory/api/monitor/get/memoryGETRetrieve memory used for each index

How do I authenticate with the Indexima API?

API endpoints require an 'Authorization' header containing the authentication token retrieved via a POST /api/login request. Depending on the endpoint, additional headers 'Monitor-Target-Host' and 'Monitor-Target-Port' may also be required.

1. Get your credentials

Indexima does not use static API keys; it uses session-based authentication tokens. To obtain credentials: 1. Send a POST request to your Indexima Console endpoint at /api/login with a JSON body containing 'name' and 'password' (e.g., {"name": "admin", "password": "yourPassword"}). 2. The response will include an 'id' field, which is your authentication token. 3. Include this token in the 'Authorization' header of subsequent API requests.

2. Add them to .dlt/secrets.toml

[sources.indexima_source] token = "REPLACE_ME"

dlt reads this automatically at runtime — never hardcode tokens in your pipeline script. For production environments, see setting up credentials with dlt for environment variable and vault-based options.


How do I set up and run the pipeline?

Set up a virtual environment and install dlt:

uv venv && source .venv/bin/activate uv pip install "dlt[workspace]"

1. Install the dlt AI harness:

dlthub ai init --agent <your-agent> # <agent>: claude | cursor | codex

This installs project rules, a secrets management skill, appropriate ignore files, and configures the dlt MCP server for your agent. Learn more →

2. Install the rest-api-pipeline toolkit:

dlthub ai toolkit rest-api-pipeline install

This loads the skills and context about dlt the agent uses to build the pipeline iteratively, efficiently, and safely. The agent uses MCP tools to inspect credentials — it never needs to read your secrets.toml directly. Learn more →

3. Start LLM-assisted coding:

Use /find-source to load data from the Indexima API into DuckDB.

The rest-api-pipeline toolkit takes over from here — it reads relevant API documentation, presents you with options for which endpoints to load, and follows a structured workflow to scaffold, debug, and validate the pipeline step by step.

4. Run the pipeline:

python indexima_pipeline.py

If everything is configured correctly, you'll see output like this:

Pipeline indexima_pipeline load step completed in 0.26 seconds 1 load package(s) were loaded to destination duckdb and into dataset indexima_data The duckdb destination used duckdb:/indexima.duckdb location to store data Load package 1749667187.541553 is LOADED and contains no failed jobs

Inspect your pipeline and data:

dlt pipeline indexima_pipeline show

This opens the Pipeline Dashboard where you can verify pipeline state, load metrics, schema (tables, columns, types), and query the loaded data directly.


Python pipeline example

This example loads /api/login and /api/monitor/get/indexes from the Indexima API into DuckDB. It mirrors the endpoint and data selector configuration from the table above:

import dlt from dlt.sources.rest_api import RESTAPIConfig, rest_api_resources @dlt.source def indexima_source(token=dlt.secrets.value): config: RESTAPIConfig = { "client": { "base_url": "http://<cluster_url>:8082", "auth": {"type": "bearer", "token": token}, }, "resources": [ {"name": "connections", "endpoint": {"path": "api/v1/connections"}}, {"name": "indexes", "endpoint": {"path": "api/monitor/get/indexes"}} ], } yield from rest_api_resources(config) def get_data() -> None: pipeline = dlt.pipeline( pipeline_name="indexima_pipeline", destination="duckdb", dataset_name="indexima_data", ) load_info = pipeline.run(indexima_source()) print(load_info)

To add more endpoints, append entries from the resource table to the "resources" list using the same name, path, and data_selector pattern.


How do I query the loaded data?

Once the pipeline runs, dlt creates one table per resource. You can query with Python or SQL.

Python (pandas DataFrame):

import dlt data = dlt.pipeline("indexima_pipeline").dataset() sessions_df = data.connections.df() print(sessions_df.head())

SQL (DuckDB example):

SELECT * FROM indexima_data.connections LIMIT 10;

In a marimo or Jupyter notebook:

import dlt data = dlt.pipeline("indexima_pipeline").dataset() data.connections.df().head()

See how to explore your data in marimo Notebooks and how to query your data in Python with dataset.


What destinations can I load Indexima data to?

dlt supports loading into any of these destinations — only the destination parameter changes:

DestinationExample value
DuckDB (local, default)"duckdb"
PostgreSQL"postgres"
BigQuery"bigquery"
Snowflake"snowflake"
Redshift"redshift"
Databricks"databricks"
Filesystem (S3, GCS, Azure)"filesystem"

Change the destination in dlt.pipeline(destination="snowflake") and add credentials in .dlt/secrets.toml. See the full destinations list.


Next steps

Continue your data engineering journey with the other toolkits of the dltHub AI harness:

  • data-exploration — Build custom notebooks, charts, and dashboards for deeper analysis with marimo notebooks.
  • dlthub-platform — Deploy, schedule, and monitor your pipeline in production.
dlthub ai toolkit data-exploration install dlthub ai toolkit dlthub-platform install

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