list_categories
List inetGeek categories — read-only
The infrastructure categories inetGeek tracks — one line per URL section ("hosting", "gpu", "databases", "storage", "caching", "vector-db", "data-api", "federation", "auth", "email", "queues", "payments", "cdn", "observability", "ci-cd", "secrets-mgmt", "analytics", "llm-apis", "search", "dns-hosting", "kubernetes", "iac", "backup", "api-gateway", "load-balancing", "realtime", "waf", "data-warehouse", "etl", "media", "sms", "streaming", "feature-flags", "incident-management", "finops", "docs-platforms", "ztna", "model-hosting"), each with its current provider count and the category ids that publish under it (hosting groups frontend-serverless, paas, vps-cloud, managed-hosting and mass-market). The section name is the category argument every other tool takes. Call this first if you don't already know which section a provider falls under. Derived from the published provider list, so it can't lag the site.
This tool is read-only.
Arguments
None.
Example
Arguments:
{}The server's answer on 2026-10-25 (first 1,400 characters):
- hosting: 40 providers (category ids: frontend-serverless, managed-hosting, mass-market, paas, vps-cloud)
- databases: 14 providers (category ids: database)
- analytics: 11 providers (category ids: web-analytics)
- email: 10 providers (category ids: email)
- queues: 10 providers (category ids: queue)
- docs-platforms: 10 providers (category ids: docs-platform)
- storage: 9 providers (category ids: object-storage)
- observability: 9 providers (category ids: observability)
- cdn: 7 providers (category ids: cdn)
- auth: 7 providers (category ids: auth)
- gpu: 7 providers (category ids: gpu-compute)
- dns-hosting: 5 providers (category ids: dns-hosting)
- backup: 5 providers (category ids: backup-dr)
- payments: 5 providers (category ids: payments)
- iac: 5 providers (category ids: iac)
- realtime: 4 providers (category ids: realtime)
- search: 4 providers (category ids: search)
- api-gateway: 4 providers (category ids: api-gateway)
- kubernetes: 4 providers (category ids: kubernetes)
- caching: 4 providers (category ids: caching)
- streaming: 4 providers (category ids: event-streaming)
- data-warehouse: 4 providers (category ids: data-warehouse)
- data-api: 4 providers (category ids: data-api)
- load-balancing: 4 providers (category ids: load-balancing)
- waf: 4 providers (category ids: waf)
- media: 4 providers (category ids: media-optimization)
- etl: 4 providers (category ids:
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