Providers

Providers track the external infrastructure and dependencies a customer’s system relies on — clouds (AWS, GCP), databases (Postgres, MySQL, ClickHouse), AI APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI), and the like. A Provider is a sibling to a Service: it carries a human description, a durable agent-curated context describing the Provider, and its own observability surface (Objectives and triggered Investigations).

Service: firetiger.observability.v1.ProviderCatalogService

Resource name pattern: providers/{provider_id}

Access: Read-write

Methods

The standard AIP-compliant CRUD surface plus a recommendation-lifecycle surface is available. Request/response shapes are in proto/firetiger/observability/v1/providers.proto and follow the same patterns as other resources documented here (e.g. Services).

RPC	HTTP
CreateProvider	POST /v1/catalog/providers
GetProvider	GET /v1/catalog/{name=providers/*}
ListProviders	GET /v1/catalog/providers
UpdateProvider	PATCH /v1/catalog/{provider.name=providers/*}
DeleteProvider	DELETE /v1/catalog/{name=providers/*}
RecommendProvider	POST /v1/catalog/providers:recommend
AcceptProvider	POST /v1/catalog/{name=providers/*}:accept
ArchiveProvider	POST /v1/catalog/{name=providers/*}:archive
RestoreProvider	POST /v1/catalog/{name=providers/*}:restore
GetProviderRecommendations	GET /v1/catalog/{name=providers/*}/recommendations
RecreateProviderExpertSession	POST /v1/catalog/{name=providers/*}:recreateExpertSession

Recommendation lifecycle

Providers are first-class resources that carry a state and flow through the same recommendation lifecycle as Services:

• Detection stores newly-discovered Providers via RecommendProvider. The recommended Provider is persisted as a real resource in PROVIDER_STATE_RECOMMENDED and its Provider Expert is provisioned (best-effort) to answer questions and review coverage.
• A customer accepts a recommendation (AcceptProvider) to promote it to PROVIDER_STATE_ACTIVE, or archives it (ArchiveProvider) to dismiss it into PROVIDER_STATE_ARCHIVED. Restore (RestoreProvider) brings an archived Provider back. User-created Providers default to PROVIDER_STATE_ACTIVE.

A Provider’s Objectives are ordinary Objectives that set owner_resource to the Provider’s name (providers/{provider}). Beyond the lifecycle RPCs, GetProviderRecommendations (see Recommended Connections) surfaces the Connection(s) recommended to observe a Provider. Provider Monitoring (running checks against a Provider) is a separate follow-up and not yet part of this API.

Recommendation metadata is carried on the resource itself: recommendation_confidence and recommendation_reasoning (see field table below).

Recommended Connections

GetProviderRecommendations (no side effects) returns, for the Provider’s provider_type, the Connection(s) recommended to observe it:

• recommended_connection_types — ConnectionType enum string keys (e.g. "CONNECTION_TYPE_POSTGRES") for the Connection(s) Firetiger needs to observe the Provider. Empty for context-only Providers whose type Firetiger can represent but cannot yet observe through a first-class Connection. String keys, not the typed enum, keep observability.v1 decoupled from connections.v1.

Provider Monitoring — running connection-gated health checks against a Provider — is a separate follow-up and is not yet exposed on this service.

Provider resource

Field	Type	Behavior	Description
name	string	Output only	Format: providers/{provider}
display_name	string	Required	Short, scannable label shown in headers and Provider lists (1–200 chars)
description	string	Optional	One-paragraph, human-facing overview of what the Provider is
context	string	Optional	Durable, structured Markdown describing the Provider, read by agents and rendered on the Provider page. Agents curate it into canonical sections (purpose, code references, dependent services, telemetry signature, invariants, failure modes and known bugs); it holds steady-state knowledge, not point-in-time evidence or timestamps. Agent-proposed at recommend time; customer-editable
expert_session	string	Output only	The per-Provider provider-expert agent session that answers questions and periodically reviews this Provider’s dependencies, Connections, telemetry, and Objectives. Format: agents/{agent}/sessions/{session}
provider_type	ProviderType	Optional	The kind of Provider (AWS, Postgres, Anthropic, …). The typed join key to the brand logo and recommended Connections, resolved through a registry. See ProviderType
state	ProviderState	Output only	Lifecycle state. User-created Providers default to PROVIDER_STATE_ACTIVE; detected Providers persist in PROVIDER_STATE_RECOMMENDED until accepted or archived. See ProviderState
recommendation_confidence	RecommendationConfidence	Optional	Agent’s confidence in this recommendation. See RecommendationConfidence
recommendation_reasoning	string	Optional	Free-text rationale for why this Provider was recommended
etag	string	Output only	Optimistic-concurrency token returned by Get and required on Update; stale etags fail with ABORTED
create_time / update_time / delete_time	timestamp	Output only	Standard AIP lifecycle timestamps

UpdateProvider is field-masked: send the Provider with an update_mask listing the paths to write (e.g. context). state, expert_session, and the other output-only fields are server-managed and ignored on Create/Update.

Enums

ProviderState

Value	Description
PROVIDER_STATE_UNSPECIFIED	Default zero value; not a valid persisted state
PROVIDER_STATE_RECOMMENDED	Detected Provider awaiting accept/archive
PROVIDER_STATE_ACTIVE	Accepted (or user-created) Provider
PROVIDER_STATE_ARCHIVED	Dismissed recommendation; hidden from active views

RecommendationConfidence

Value	Description
RECOMMENDATION_CONFIDENCE_UNSPECIFIED	Confidence not set
RECOMMENDATION_CONFIDENCE_HIGH	High confidence
RECOMMENDATION_CONFIDENCE_MEDIUM	Medium confidence
RECOMMENDATION_CONFIDENCE_LOW	Low confidence

ProviderType

The bounded taxonomy of Provider kinds. Independent of firetiger.connections.v1.ConnectionType — the ProviderType → ConnectionType / logo mapping lives in registries. New kinds are added here as detection grows.

Group	Values
Clouds / PaaS	PROVIDER_TYPE_AWS, PROVIDER_TYPE_GCP, PROVIDER_TYPE_VERCEL, PROVIDER_TYPE_SUPABASE
Databases / data stores	PROVIDER_TYPE_POSTGRES, PROVIDER_TYPE_MYSQL, PROVIDER_TYPE_CLICKHOUSE, PROVIDER_TYPE_ELASTICSEARCH
AI APIs	PROVIDER_TYPE_ANTHROPIC, PROVIDER_TYPE_OPENAI, PROVIDER_TYPE_TOGETHER_AI, PROVIDER_TYPE_DEEPSEEK, PROVIDER_TYPE_BASETEN
Durable execution / workflow orchestration	PROVIDER_TYPE_TEMPORAL

Notes

• A Provider mirrors a Service’s recommendation shape, minus the Service-only breakdown Dimensions.
• The Provider lifecycle RPCs manage the Provider resource only; provider Objectives and their triaged Investigations are owned by the provider monitoring work.