The API gateway trusted by thousands worldwide
At Tyk, we understand the challenges of managing APIs – security concerns, deployment delays, and the struggle to scale efficiently. That’s why the Tyk API Gateway offers seamless deployment, robust security, and deep analytics. Tyk simplifies API management, letting you focus on growth, not complexity.
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Out-of-the-box API management
Helping businesses scale their API infrastructure
If you’re eager to grow your business and boost revenue, Tyk’s API Gateway supports your journey without significant costs. It effectively tackles the challenges of rapid growth, such as technical obstacles, quality assurance and compliance, enabling you to scale your API infrastructure seamlessly and confidently.
API traffic shaping and security
Real-time traffic shaping and security features to control data flows and enforce access policies to protect APIs from misuse.
Enhanced governance and auditing
Robust governance and auditing capabilities to facilitate API usage monitoring and logging to ensure compliance with industry regulations.
Efficient API design and testing
Use Tyk Dashboard to design, implement and test APIs, streamline endpoint creation and deploy, ensuring compliance with performance and security standards.
In-depth analytics
Gathering and exporting detailed traffic data provides insights to analyze performance metrics and inform strategic decisions for optimizing API usage.
Trusted by global enterprises
More than just an API gateway
Tyk’s API Gateway was built from the ground up with no third-party software – just open-source code for full control. If you’re seeking a market-leading solution, you’re in the right place.
- Deploy anywhere: Easily deploy your API gateway in any environment – cloud, on-premises or hybrid. Enjoy flexibility that adapts to your unique infrastructure needs.
- Flexible versioning: Manage API upgrades seamlessly with flexible versioning. Ensure minimal downtime for users while maintaining control over all your endpoints.
- Deep-dive analytics: Access comprehensive analytics to monitor API performance through Tyk Dashboard or Tyk Pump. Gain insights into usage to make informed business decisions.
- Safe and efficient collaboration: Facilitate secure teamwork across multi-region teams. Robust governance and auditing features ensure compliance and enhance productivity.
- Pre-built middleware: Out-of-the-box middleware saves time and effort, integrating seamlessly with REST, SOAP, GraphQL, Kubernetes and legacy systems – no maintenance needed.
- Business-needs first: Focus on what matters most for your business. Tailor your API management strategy to align with your organizational goals and priorities.
Transform your API management
Experience the power of flexibility with Tyk’s API Gateway. From tailored solutions to a vibrant community and an effortless setup, we ensure you’re equipped to achieve your API goals quickly and effectively.
Customizable solutions
Tailor the gateway to your needs with plugins and extensions that enhance functionality without added complexity.
Community and support
Benefit from a strong community and dedicated support to maximize resources and expertise for your API strategy.
Get started in minutes
Set up your API gateway quickly and easily with a streamlined onboarding process to get you running in no time!
“By using Tyk, we saved a lot on the operational costs. It was taking days or weeks to deploy an application because everything was manual. Tyk speeds up everything. We can deploy an application on the same day. That wasn’t possible before.”
Koç University partnered with Tyk to centralize API management, enhancing security and efficiency for 10,000+ users. Tyk’s user-friendly interface streamlined API management, reduced deployment times and operational costs, and increased productivity and security, positioning the university for future innovation. Read more about this case study.
FAQs
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Can Tyk API Gateway be used with different API protocols like REST, SOAP, and GraphQL?
Tyk API Gateway can be used with REST APIs, gRPC, legacy SOAP APIs and GraphQL, providing you with outstanding flexibility for your traffic management. We don’t dictate how you should do things – our API management tools simply mold around your business logic.
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What level of control and visibility do I have over my APIs with Tyk's SaaS API Gateway?
Tyk provides you with full control over your API traffic. Handle hundreds of thousands of requests with ease, ensuring a smooth user experience for your web and mobile applications, internal systems and other services.
You can use Tyk Gateway for authentication and authorization, rate limiting and quotas, protocol mediation and transformations, analytics, logging, tracing, versioning, caching, as a load balancer and more.
For full visibility, Tyk Dashboard makes monitoring easy, while Tyk Pump enables you to export analytics data to your favorite business intelligence tool.
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How does Tyk's SaaS API Gateway handle API traffic spikes and ensure high performance?
Tyk supports native round-robin load balancing, rotating requests through a list of target hosts. This supports high availability and helps handle traffic spikes smoothly.
You can also configure rate limiting in Tyk Gateway. You can set this up at API level or key level or implement a key-level per-API rate limit. This supports fair usage, protects against traffic spikes impacting performance and ensures excellent digital experiences for all users.
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How does Tyk API Gateway help with API security and governance?
You can set security policies in Tyk API Gateway to ensure consistent, robust security across all APIs, abstracting complicated security implementations via pre-defined assets and templates. In addition to protecting data and backend services, this enables an uncomplicated approach to governance and auditing, even in complex industries and scenarios.
With Tyk, you can retain centralized governance while delegating access and autonomy to multiple teams. You can integrate securely with your CI/CD pipelines and use role-based access control (RBAC) and single sign-on (SSO). Tyk also makes it easy to implement a developer portal securely.
For fine-grained user permission control, use Tyk’s Open Policy Agent.
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How does Tyk's SaaS API Gateway simplify API lifecycle management?
Tyk Gateway simplifies API lifecycle management by providing easy deployment, flexible versioning and deep dive analytics and monitoring capabilities. It means you can design, innovate and collaborate efficiently and securely, focusing on your business needs rather than technical complexities.
Because Tyk is built from the ground up using open source code, you can enjoy full control and oversight at all times. Deploy anywhere, choose cloud, self-managed or hybrid, extend Tyk with popular programming languages, run it inside service meshes, write custom, pluggable middleware and transform requests… whatever you need to do, Tyk Gateway will mold around it.
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How can Tyk API Gateway help businesses scale their API infrastructure?
If you’re keen to grow your business and your revenue, Tyk is here to support you to do so without introducing significant costs. We support you to overcome the pain points usually associated with rapid growth, from technical issues to quality assurance and compliance problems. Why not talk to our team to find out more?