Samsara is a leading connected operations platform for physical operations industries including transportation, logistics, construction, field services, and energy. The Samsara REST API provides programmatic access to fleet telematics, driver safety, compliance (ELD/HOS), vehicle diagnostics, route management, industrial IoT sensors, and workforce management. With over two million connected devices, the platform offers real-time GPS tracking, AI-powered safety cameras, digital inspection forms (DVIRs), IFTA reporting, and data streaming via webhooks and Kafka.
Asset Tracking, Connected Operations, ELD, Fleet Management, GPS Tracking, IoT, Logistics, Safety, Telematics, Transportation
- Created: 2024-11-07
- Modified: 2026-05-02
The Samsara REST API provides comprehensive access to fleet and industrial IoT data. Base URL: https://api.samsara.com. Authentication via Bearer token.
Addresses, Assets, Compliance, Documents, Drivers, DVIR, ELD, Fleet, Forms, Hours Of Service, IoT, Routes, Safety, Sensors, Tags, Telematics, Users, Vehicles, Webhooks
- Documentation
- OpenAPI — 217 Operations
- GitHub Repository
- Python SDK
- JavaScript SDK
- Documentation — Samsara Developer Portal
- Documentation — Getting Started Guide
- GitHub Organization — Samsara GitHub
- Authentication — API Authentication
- openapi/samsara-openapi.yml — Samsara API (217 operations across 26 resource areas)
- rules/samsara-rules.yml — Samsara API Spectral Rules
- capabilities/shared/samsara.yaml — Samsara API (vehicles, drivers, routes, safety, compliance)
- capabilities/fleet-operations.yaml — Fleet Operations (vehicles, drivers, routes, assets, addresses, tags)
- capabilities/safety-compliance.yaml — Safety and Compliance (safety events, DVIR, HOS/ELD logs)
- json-schema/samsara-vehicle-schema.json — Samsara Vehicle
- json-schema/samsara-driver-schema.json — Samsara Driver
- json-schema/samsara-safety-event-schema.json — Samsara Safety Event
- json-structure/samsara-vehicle-structure.json — Vehicle Field Hierarchy
- json-structure/samsara-driver-structure.json — Driver Field Hierarchy
- json-ld/samsara-context.jsonld — Samsara JSON-LD Context
- examples/samsara-list-vehicles-example.json — List Vehicles Request/Response
- examples/samsara-list-safety-events-example.json — List Safety Events Request/Response
- vocabulary/samsara-vocabulary.yml — Samsara Vocabulary
FN: Kin Lane Email: kin@apievangelist.com