Gravitee
Gravitee is an open-source API management platform used to publish, secure, monitor, and control access to APIs across an organization.
Definition
Gravitee is an open-source API management platform used to publish, secure, monitor, and control access to APIs across an organization.
Overview
API management platforms like Gravitee sit in front of backend services to handle the concerns that come with exposing APIs at scale: authentication, rate limiting, request/response transformation, and analytics, without every backend team having to reimplement those concerns themselves. Gravitee provides an API gateway component that enforces policies on incoming traffic, alongside a developer portal where API consumers can discover available APIs, view documentation, and manage their own access credentials. It supports REST, GraphQL, and other API styles behind a common management layer. As an open-source platform, Gravitee is often evaluated alongside commercial API management products, appealing particularly to organizations that want self-hosting flexibility for their API infrastructure alongside container platforms like Kubernetes.
Key Features
- API gateway enforcing authentication, rate limiting, and policies
- Developer portal for API discovery and self-service access
- Support for REST, GraphQL, and other API styles
- Analytics and monitoring of API traffic and usage
- Open-source availability with self-hosting options
- Policy-based request and response transformation