What Difference Does an API Make? 6 Ways to Take Your Compliance Data to the Next Level

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In my work with customers and partners, I often hear: “Compliance for Confluence works great – but can we do more with it?”

The answer is yes. While Compliance for Confluence already automates internal checks, the REST API opens the door to more advanced use cases – from integrating with external systems to orchestrating complex automations across your environment.

If you’re not familiar with our REST API yet, please see this introduction video.

Since launch, I’ve seen it help organisations gain central oversight, improve security, and connect compliance data directly into other business processes.

Here are six examples of how it can add value.

1. Build a Custom Dashboard for Complete Visibility

With the API, you can push your Compliance for Confluence data into a custom dashboard showing key insights such as document status, classification levels, or review due dates.

If your organisation works across multiple Confluence instances (for example, large enterprises like Oracle), this can give you one central place to see everything.

A single view of your compliance data makes reporting, auditing, and decision-making much easier.

Related reading: How to efficiently embed compliance into your Atlassian tech stack

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2. Automate Classification on Migration

When migrating from Confluence Data Center, you can use the API to automatically set classification status for imported pages.

This avoids manual re-classification and ensures that sensitive information is protected right from the start.

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3. Connect to Security Platforms

By sending your Compliance for Confluence data to tools like Sentinel, Tenable, or ServiceNow, you can make compliance part of your broader security ecosystem.

For example, if the API finds an exposed API key, you can trigger an incident or create a SIEM event automatically.

Related reading: 3 Clever Ways to Protect Your Data: Compliance, Classification and Rovo

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4. Improve Offboarding Processes

If an employee leaves, the API can adjust access instantly – for example, restricting certain pages or locking down sensitive content.

This reduces the risk of information being accessible when it shouldn’t be.

Related reading: How Compliant is Your Confluence Offboarding Process?

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5. Run Regular Access Audits

The API can support scheduled audits, checking public pages for sensitive data such as PII.

You can then feed this into your central dashboard for reporting, making it much easier to meet compliance requirements.

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6. Link Compliance to Your Release Process

As part of a CI/CD workflow, you can use the API to automatically lock or unlock documentation when a new feature is released to production.

This ensures your published content always matches the live environment.

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Why This Matters

With the Compliance for Confluence REST API, you gain more than automation – you gain control, visibility, and the ability to scale compliance with ease.

For existing users, API-driven workflows can save time and open up new opportunities, from streamlined dashboards to automated Rovo AI classification – see an example here.

If you’d like help tailoring these workflows to your use case, our team is ready to support you.

And if you’re not yet familiar with Compliance for Confluence, book a demo today – we’ll be happy to show you what’s possible.