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# Inventory

The Cortex Cloud Data Security solution is an agentless multi-cloud data security platform that discovers, classifies, protects, and governs sensitive data.

## Get data pattern inventory

> Get all data patterns found in the environment, including high-level aggregations for each of them.\
> \
> \*\*Required license:\*\* Requires the Cortex Cloud Posture Management add-on.

```json
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```

## Get field inventory details

> \*\*Required license:\*\* Requires the Cortex Cloud Posture Management add-on.

```json
{"openapi":"3.1.0","info":{"title":"Data Security Posture Management APIs","version":"Cortex XDR 5.1"},"tags":[{"name":"Inventory","description":"The Cortex Cloud Data Security solution is an agentless multi-cloud data security platform that discovers, classifies, protects, and governs sensitive data."}],"servers":[{"url":"https://api-yourfqdn"}],"paths":{"/public_api/v1/data-security/objects/fields":{"post":{"description":"**Required license:** Requires the Cortex Cloud Posture Management add-on.","parameters":[{"schema":{"type":"string"},"in":"header","name":"Authorization","description":"{api_key}","required":true},{"schema":{"type":"string"},"in":"header","name":"x-xdr-auth-id","description":"{api_key_id}","required":true}],"requestBody":{"content":{"application/json":{"schema":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/DasRequestBody"}}},"required":true},"responses":{"200":{"description":"OK","content":{"*/*":{"schema":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/DasResponseBody"}}}},"400":{"description":"Bad Request","content":{"*/*":{"schema":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse"}}}},"500":{"description":"Internal Server Error","content":{"*/*":{"schema":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse"}}}}},"summary":"Get field inventory details","operationId":"postGetFieldInventoryDetails","tags":["Inventory"]}}},"components":{"schemas":{"DasRequestBody":{"type":"object","properties":{"filter":{"type":"object","properties":{}},"sort":{"type":"array","properties":{}},"next_page_token":{"type":"string","properties":{}}}},"DasResponseBody":{"type":"object","properties":{"data":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/JsonArray"},"metadata":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/DasResponseBodyMetadata"}},"required":["data","metadata"]},"JsonArray":{"type":"array","properties":{}},"DasResponseBodyMetadata":{"type":"object","properties":{"total_count":{"type":"integer","format":"int32"},"filter_count":{"type":"integer","format":"int32"},"next_page_token":{"type":"string"}}},"ErrorResponse":{"type":"object","properties":{"err_msg":{"type":"string"},"err_extra":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/JsonArray"}},"required":["err_msg","err_extra"]}}}}
```

## Get file inventory details

> \*\*Required license:\*\* Requires the Cortex Cloud Posture Management add-on.

```json
{"openapi":"3.1.0","info":{"title":"Data Security Posture Management APIs","version":"Cortex XDR 5.1"},"tags":[{"name":"Inventory","description":"The Cortex Cloud Data Security solution is an agentless multi-cloud data security platform that discovers, classifies, protects, and governs sensitive data."}],"servers":[{"url":"https://api-yourfqdn"}],"paths":{"/public_api/v1/data-security/objects/files":{"post":{"description":"**Required license:** Requires the Cortex Cloud Posture Management add-on.","parameters":[{"schema":{"type":"string"},"in":"header","name":"Authorization","description":"{api_key}","required":true},{"schema":{"type":"string"},"in":"header","name":"x-xdr-auth-id","description":"{api_key_id}","required":true}],"requestBody":{"content":{"application/json":{"schema":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/DasRequestBody"}}},"required":true},"responses":{"200":{"description":"OK","content":{"*/*":{"schema":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/DasResponseBody"}}}},"400":{"description":"Bad Request","content":{"*/*":{"schema":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse"}}}},"500":{"description":"Internal Server Error","content":{"*/*":{"schema":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse"}}}}},"summary":"Get file inventory details","operationId":"postGetFileInventoryDetails","tags":["Inventory"]}}},"components":{"schemas":{"DasRequestBody":{"type":"object","properties":{"filter":{"type":"object","properties":{}},"sort":{"type":"array","properties":{}},"next_page_token":{"type":"string","properties":{}}}},"DasResponseBody":{"type":"object","properties":{"data":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/JsonArray"},"metadata":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/DasResponseBodyMetadata"}},"required":["data","metadata"]},"JsonArray":{"type":"array","properties":{}},"DasResponseBodyMetadata":{"type":"object","properties":{"total_count":{"type":"integer","format":"int32"},"filter_count":{"type":"integer","format":"int32"},"next_page_token":{"type":"string"}}},"ErrorResponse":{"type":"object","properties":{"err_msg":{"type":"string"},"err_extra":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/JsonArray"}},"required":["err_msg","err_extra"]}}}}
```


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