# Explore Snow Owl

Now that we have our instance up and running, the next step is to understand how to communicate with it. Fortunately, Snow Owl provides very comprehensive and powerful APIs to interact with your instance.

## REST API

Among the few things that can be done with the API are as follows:

* Check your instance health, status, and statistics
* Administer your instance data
* Perform CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) and search operations against your terminologies
* Execute advanced search operations such as paging, sorting, filtering, scripting, aggregations, and many others


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# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://docs.b2ihealthcare.com/snow-owl/8.x/index/explore.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.