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Historian data rest API

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Last UpdatedMar 20, 2025
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With Historian Data REST API, you can upload data to and retrieve it from your Insight solution.

Insight solution flowchart.

You can use these types of requests with Historian Data REST API:

Upload requests use the POST method to an upload endpoint URL.

Upload requests send data or metadata to a specific data source within your Insight solution.

See Data upload for details about upload requests.
Retrieval requests use the GET method and a different endpoint URL for retrieval from your Insight solution.

See Data retrieval for two methods to retrieve data.

You can submit requests to the Historian Data REST API using a web browser or a client-side applications such as these:

Microsoft Excel (2013, 2016, or Office 365)
Business Intelligence (BI) systems, such as Tableau and Microsoft Power BI

Supported OData features

OData is an industry standard for querying and updating data from a variety of sources. The implementation of OData for the Historian Data REST API includes support for:

JSON and atom formats.
OData versions 3 and 4.
Pagination. That is, if your request returns more than 5000 results, they will be returned in pages of up to 5000 records. Each page will include a link to retrieve the next page of records.
A subset of the OData system query options.

For more information, see OData.org JSON Verbose Format specification.

Recommendation: For best results, when you want to view the data returned by the Historian Data REST API, use the JSONView extension for the Chrome browser.

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