System status

System status

• URL

  /system/status.json

• Methods

  GET POST

• Role

  readonly

  Errata: Incorrectly marked as logon in 2020-R1

• POST parameters

  Key	Description
  fields	Optional, field simplification

• Result

  Dictionary of Kismet system-level status, including update, battery, memory, and thermal data, optionally simplified.

Timestamp

• URL

  /system/timestamp.json

• Methods

  GET

• Role

  readonly

  Errata: Incorrectly marked as logon in 2020-R1

• Result

  Dictionary of system timestamp as second, microsecond; can be used to synchronize timestamps and as a keep-alive check.

Tracked fields

• URL

  /system/tracked_fields.html

• Methods

  GET

• Role

  readonly

• Result

  Human-readable table of all registered field names, types, and descriptions. While it cannot represent the nested features of some data structures, it will describe every allocated field. This endpoint returns a HTML document for ease of use.

Packet counts

• URL

  /packetchain/packet_stats.json

• Methods

  GET POST

• Role

  readonly

• POST parameters

  Key	Description
  fields	Optional, field simplification

• Result

  Dictionary of packet rate RRDs for various packet queues

Dynamic javascript include

Kismet provides a dynamically generated javascript file which is loaded by the UI, which in turn loads the core system and plugin JS modules.

• URL

  /dynamic.js

• API Added

  2022-01

• Methods

  GET

• Role

  readonly

• Result

  This returns a full javascript file which in turn loads the JS modules registered with Kismet and inserts them into the global namespace. It should be included as a script file in the UI, such as:

    <script src="dynamic.js"></script>