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title: "Corvil APIs & SDK | Custom Analytics Integration | Pico"
description: "Integrate, automate, and extend Corvil Analytics: open APIs for data sharing, streaming event triggers, custom decoders, and forensic packet export."
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# Corvil APIs & SDK
Empower organizations to integrate, automate, and extend Corvil capabilities, matching infrastructure requirements and needs of diverse stakeholders with an open architecture that delivers more value from existing investments.

- Open data sharing for real-time and historical metrics into business applications
- Build custom decoders for proprietary protocols and applications
- Trigger external application actions via streaming event data
- Programmatic packet capture filtering and export for forensic analysis

## What are Corvil APIs and SDK?

Corvil APIs and SDK empower organizations to integrate, automate, and extend Corvil to match diverse infrastructure requirements. The open architecture enables Corvil to interact intelligently with other tools, resulting in a stronger enterprise ecosystem. The SDK includes documentation, code samples, and resources to build custom decoders or integrate via Corvil API under an annual subscription.

## Integration capabilities and related products

### Open Data Sharing

Integrate real-time and historical metrics, summarized statistics, and events into reports and business applications.

### Custom Business Metrics

Define real-time business-specific metrics automatically correlated with Corvil infrastructure performance metrics.

### Corvil Connectors

Pre-built, no-code data pipelines to Splunk, Elastic, Kafka, kdb+, and more, complementary to the API.

### Trading Analytics

The Corvil Analytics platform that APIs and SDK extend: 600+ decoders, Intelligence Hub, and modular components.

### Corvil Center

Centralized management where API-driven workflows and custom decoders are deployed and monitored.

## Common integration use cases

### Compliance automation

- Programmatic packet capture export for regulatory forensic analysis
- Automated audit trail generation with precision-timestamped data

### Custom protocol analytics

- Custom decoders for proprietary trading protocols and internal applications
- Same level of intelligence as Corvil built-in decoders for FIX, ITCH, OUCH

### Automated alerting

- Stream events to trigger external application actions and ITSM workflows
- Integrate with PagerDuty, ServiceNow, or custom alerting pipelines

### Business intelligence

- Feed real-time and historical metrics into BI dashboards and reports
- Correlate custom business metrics with infrastructure performance data

## Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know about Corvil APIs and SDK.

### What can I do with the Corvil API?

The Corvil API provides programmatic access to all analytics, trading and market data messages, and underlying packets. You can integrate real-time and historical metrics into business applications, trigger external actions based on streaming events, retrieve stored packet data for forensic analysis, and automate operational workflows.

### What does the Corvil SDK include?

The Corvil SDK includes documentation, code samples, and resources to make it faster and more efficient to program using Corvil API or to build custom decoders for proprietary protocols and applications. It is available under an annual subscription.

### Can I build custom decoders?

Yes. Using the Corvil SDK, you can create custom decoders for proprietary protocols and applications to get the same level of accurate intelligence that Corvil provides for standard protocols. Custom decoder metrics are automatically correlated with Corvil infrastructure performance metrics, creating unique insights for competitive advantage.

### How does the Corvil API differ from Corvil Connectors?

Corvil Connectors provide pre-built, no-code data pipelines to platforms like Splunk, Kafka, and kdb+. The Corvil API provides full programmatic access for custom integrations, automation, and packet-level data retrieval, enabling use cases that require fine-grained control over data access and processing.

### Can the Corvil API export packet captures?

Yes. The API supports programmatic packet capture filtering and export for forensic analysis, retrieving stored PCAP data based on time range, protocol, session, or any Corvil metric.

### Which protocols can custom decoders handle?

Custom decoders can decode any proprietary protocol or application format. They produce the same level of intelligence as Corvil's 600+ built-in decoders for standard protocols like FIX, ITCH, OUCH, and PITCH, with metrics automatically correlated with infrastructure performance data.

### Can the API trigger external application actions?

Yes. The API streams event data that can trigger external application actions, enabling automated alerting, workflow automation, and integration with ITSM and compliance tools like PagerDuty and ServiceNow.

## Extend Corvil to your ecosystem

Talk to a Corvil specialist about integrating analytics into your workflows with Corvil APIs and SDK.