API Manager
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The #1 open source hybrid API management platform
At a glance
WSO2 API Manager
WSO2 API Manager is a fully open-source full lifecycle API Management solution that can be run anywhere. It can be deployed on-prem, on a private cloud, is available as a service on cloud or deployed in a hybrid fashion where its components can be distributed and deployed across multiple cloud and on-prem infrastructures.
It comprises of a cloud native API gateway and provides a Kubernetes operator for easily converting raw microservices into managed APIs. API Manager integrates with service meshes and provides a full fledged management plane and control plane for managing, monitoring and monetizing APIs and API products.
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Benefits
Reduce technology risk
Reduce technology risk with extensible open source platform, rich documentation and community contributions.
Fit into multiple Architectures
Designed to fit into Monolithic and Microservice Architectures with gateway and microgateway capabilities.
Data-driven decisions
Make data-driven decisions through API usage, analytics and insights.
API Security
Granular access control provides security down to the API level.
On-premise and Cloud or both
The flexibility to deploy on-premise, use the public cloud, or both. Easily migrate in between these environments.
Reduce future investments
Full Lifecycle API Management reduces need for future investments.
Increase Team efficiency
Integrated platform increases team capabilities and efficiency.
Overview
Architecture
WSO2 API Manager
WSO2 API Manager is an open source enterprise-class solution that supports API publishing, lifecycle management, application development, access control, rate limiting and analytics in one cleanly integrated system.
Capabilities
API Gateway and Microgateway
Secure, low-latency access to microservices via WSO2 API Microgateway eliminates the need for a central gateway by enabling enterprises to apply API management policies in a decentralized fashion.
Hybrid API Management
Hybrid SaaS API management solutions enable you to get the best of both worlds, by delivering the benefits of on-premise, with minimal infrastructure overhead of cloud.
Integration with Istio
Integrates out-of-the-box with Istio to allow APIs from the service mesh to be securely exposed and managed.
API Security
Authenticate and authorize API requests from any client or device type making requests to resource servers operating on traditional and microservice architectures.
API Store (Developer Portal)
An API marketplace incorporates business and human aspects that encourage API developers by providing tools, documentation, incentives such as monetization and supporting activities like evangelism, workshops, and hackathons.
Collaborative API and Application Lifecycle Management
Enables the design, implementation and documentation of APIs with business planning. Facilitates the management of the API Lifecycle across environments, data centers, and regions.
Business Insights and Anomaly Detection
Monitors system behavior, as well as API and application usage at operations and business levels.
API operator for Kubernetes
Allows deploying APIs in Kubernetes for individual microservices and composes groups of multicroservices into individual APIs. The API Microgateway gets deployed in Kubernetes through this operator for Kubernetes.
GraphQL services as APIs
GraphQL services can be exposed as managed APIs through the WSO2 platform, allowing authentication, operational level authorization, rate limits and analytics for queries, mutations and subscriptions.
API Products
Productize and monetize APIs by selectively choosing operations of one or more APIs to create API products. Provides greater flexibility and better options for API product managers to maximize the value of APIs.
API Controller
A command-line tool which interconnects WSO2 API Manager, WSO2 Microgateway, and WSO2 API Operator for Kubernetes providing greater flexibility to create CI/CD pipelines for APIs.
Here’s what our customers say about us…
We've been using WSO2 API Manager for awhile, and I must say we're all impressed with its capabilities and services offered. It's an easy to use API Manager with tons of facilities that we required, its key management and exposure of microservices is excellent.”
(As of July 29, 2019)
Gartner Peer Insights: Gartner Peer Insights reviews constitute the subjective opinions of individual end users based on their own experiences, and do not represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates.
The API Manager helped us to implement our APIs with a better security layer and a faster way to accomplish token generation and handling. But the WSO2 implementation of OpenID and some database connections and dockerizing it with WSO2 Identity Server as key manager where challenging.”
(As of July 29, 2019)
Gartner Peer Insights: Gartner Peer Insights reviews constitute the subjective opinions of individual end users based on their own experiences, and do not represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates.
Very useful tool for managing APIs, better than AWS Gateway. We migrate all APIs from AWS to WSO2 API Manager in a very short time. Easy to create scope for each applications and works fine."
(As of July 27, 2019)
Gartner Peer Insights: Gartner Peer Insights reviews constitute the subjective opinions of individual end users based on their own experiences, and do not represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates.
WSO2 API Manager is a great product and has met and exceeded our expectations in every area. It is full featured and easy to use. Support from WSO2 should be the model that all other companies use - issues are never dropped and always driven to a satisfactory conclusion."
(As of July 27, 2019)
Gartner Peer Insights: Gartner Peer Insights reviews constitute the subjective opinions of individual end users based on their own experiences, and do not represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates.
Satisfactory level. Product has easy to use high industry demand set of features. Product documentation and user community provide immense help.”
(As of May 1, 2019)
Gartner Peer Insights: Gartner Peer Insights reviews constitute the subjective opinions of individual end users based on their own experiences, and do not represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates.
Components
API Gateway/Microgateway
Supports both forms of centralized and decentralized Gateway capabilities with high scalability characteristics to cater traditional and modern enterprise architectures.
Storefront/marketplace
Enables developers to discover APIs, test them before consumption, calculate monetization, get feedback and make feature requests.
Key Manager
The Key Manager is the STS (Security Token Service) that issues tokens that can be used by resource servers for authentication and authorization of requests. It supports a wide range of OAuth grant types and is capable of issuing both opaque and signed self contained tokens.
Publisher
A structured GUI designed for API creators to develop, document, scale and version APIs, while also facilitating more API management-related tasks such as publishing APIs, monetization and analyzing statistics.
Traffic Manager
Helps users to regulate API traffic, make APIs and applications available to consumers at different service levels, and secure APIs against security attacks. The Traffic Manager features a dynamic throttling engine to process throttling policies in real-time, including rate limiting of API requests.
Designer/Studio
An Eclipse-based SOA development environment. Developer Studio allows developers to define a project representing a complete Composite Application (C-App) spanning multiple products and features.
Analytics
API Manager integrates with the WSO2 Analytics platform to provide reports, statistics and graphs on the APIs deployed in WSO2 API Manager. Enable Alerts to monitor APIs and react on anomalies. Gain insights by geography, user categories and more.
WSO2 API Manager Success Stories
West uses WSO2 to facilitate nearly 300 million unique interactions every month, creating complex, context-aware interactive voice response systems for customer support.
After launching WSO2 API Management platform, Qantas increased the number of APIs published by its teams by tenfold, saw a 500% increase in the volume of managed API traffic.
ZeOmega uses WSO2 to handle the complete API management lifecycle and push out secure APIs for their real-time web services for their health management solutions.