API Gateway

Features

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  Easy API Management

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    Provides easy-to-use API management tools and functions.

    
    

    API Lifecycle Management

    Supports API lifecycle management, including API definition, testing, and publishing. API Gateway is an easy-to-use service for daily API and version management. It also supports hot upgrade and quick rollback.

    
    

    Easy-to-Use Tools and Documentation

    Provides visualized debugging tools and automatically generates API documentation and SDKs to reduce labor costs.

    
    
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  Security and Stability

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    Provides permission management, traffic throttling, monitoring, and alarms.

    
    

    Security

    API requests must pass the identity and permission authentication process to pass through an API gateway and reach backend services. Supports HMAC-SHA1 and HMAC-SHA256 signatures and SSL encryption.

    
    

    Traffic Throttling

    Throttles the maximum number of API calls that can be made in one minute, one hour, or one day. This feature protects backend services for enterprises and enables business and user prioritization.
    Supports traffic throttling based on the priority of APIs to ensure that your business is running stably.
    Supports traffic throttling based on the priority of users or applications to guarantee the service uptime for important users. You can also use a circuit breaker to handle backend service failures.
    You can throttle the maximum number of API calls that can be made in one minute, one hour, or one day.

    
    
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  Request Management

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    Filters out invalid requests through parameter validation. Parameter conversion allows you to use one API to use multiple services.

    
    

    Parameter Validation

    API Gateway validates parameter types and values to reduce the resource consumption and overhead for handling invalid requests in the back end. The validation methods include the value range validation, enumeration, regular expressions, and JSON Schema.

    
    

    Parameter Conversion

    API Gateway allows you to create parameter mapping rules to transform backend services to the forms required by different users. This feature enables services to share functions and helps you avoid developing the same function for each service.

    
    
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  Monitoring and Alarms

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    Integrates with CloudMonitor to provide monitoring and alarms. Improvements are still being made to this feature.

    
    

    Monitoring and Alarms

    Supports real-time and visualized API monitoring, which allows you to monitor API calls, calling methods, response time, and error rates. This feature enables you to learn the API running status and user behavior.
    Allows you to customize alarm rules to generate alarms when an exception occurs and save time troubleshooting.
    In later updates, you will be able to subscribe to data analysis reports and intelligent analysis.

    
    
    
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  API Market

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    Provides an all-in-one solution for API management and monetization.

    
    

    API Market

    APIs managed by API Gateway can be published to Alibaba Cloud API Market as services. API Gateway and the API Market provide the metering, billing, quota control, operations, and monetization features of APIs.