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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.
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.
  • Feed Syteca alert events into a SOAR playbook — pull Alerts into Splunk Phantom, Cortex XSOAR, or custom incident-response automation.
  • Build access-audit pipelines — pull Endpoint Access Control 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 when building automated onboarding pipelines that combine discovered privileged accounts with their actual usage patterns from monitoring data.
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.
Not currently supported in Multi-Tenant mode. Single-tenant deployments only.

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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).
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.

Install the Data Connector

Prerequisites, MSI installation, version compatibility, certificate setup.

API reference

Authentication, conventions, all 9 endpoints, status codes.

Power BI example

End-to-end use case importing Syteca data into Power BI templates.

Manage the Data Connector

The Applications tab in the Management Tool — register, view, deactivate.