Explore the Tyk stack: Simplify your API management

Tyk simplifies the complex world of API management. We make it easy to apply security, governance, observability and more to your APIs. The composable and flexible Tyk stack includes various components, so you can customize your API management approach based on your business goals.

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Discover the components of the Tyk stack

Each of the components below serves a specific technical purpose, while our overall goal is simple, efficient and cost-effective API management. They have been developed to work with open standards and integrate seamlessly with third-party tools, so you can build the infrastructure that suits you with no vendor lock-in, enabling flexible scaling.

gateway

Tyk Gateway

Our powerful, customizable gateway provides blistering performance, easy governance and robust API security.

Tyk pump

Tyk Pump

Our observability layer, Pump, collects and sends analytics to Tyk Dashboard and business intelligence tools.

k8s

Tyk Operator

Tyk Operator simplifies API configuration and management declaratively in a Kubernetes environment.

bridge

Tyk Identity Broker

This Tyk Dashboard built-in feature makes it easy to connect third-party identity management systems to Tyk.

on-prem

Tyk Sync

Seamlessly sync across different environments, bringing superior version control to your API configurations.

Helm

Tyk Helm Chart

This is how you deploy Tyk in Kubernetes, supporting efficient, declarative K8s API management.

Dashboard

Tyk Dashboard

This is our GUI and analytics platform, making it easy to manage your Tyk installation and granular analytics.

online store

Developer Portal

Catalog and expose a façade of your APIs so third-party developers can discover them, register and use them.

global

MDCB

Our Multi Data Center Bridge manages and syncs logically or geographically distributed Tyk Gateway clusters.

protocols

UDG

Universal Data Graph combines multiple APIs into a universal interface accessible with a single GraphQL query.

event driven

Tyk Streams

Securely expose, manage and monetize asynchronous streaming and events APIs with Tyk Streams.

Making API management simple

The Tyk stack components help simplify API management while giving you the flexibility to do things your way. With Tyk, you can achieve all your API-related goals and drive value for your business through efficiency and automation.

  • Robust security: Protect your APIs from vulnerabilities and breaches with powerful, standardized security for REST, GraphQL and event-driven APIs.
  • Appropriate governance: Streamline compliance with automation and efficiency for secure API access and CI/CD pipeline integration.
  • Powerful observability: Troubleshoot faster and make data-driven business decisions thanks to Tyk’s impressive analytics and observability capabilities.
  • Easy customization: Use Tyk out-of-the-box or write custom middleware in the language of your choice. Either way, API management is less complex with Tyk.
  • Superior monetization: Make more money from your APIs by understanding usage patterns, allocating resources efficiently and spotting opportunities for innovation.
  • Universal API management: Work with REST, GraphQL and asynchronous APIs through our user-friendly API management platform, with native support for different protocols.

Do API management better with Tyk

“Kalamuna’s partnership with Tyk is delivering tangible results for the MTC. Since its launch in Feb 2023, the gateway has delivered over 325 million API-supported calls at an overall success rate of 99.88%. The previous system failed completely multiple times per year, approximately once every six to ten weeks.”

Kalamuna solution for San Francisco’s Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC)

Kalamuna needed a reliable and highly performant API gateway as the cornerstone of its solution for the MTC. Robust security was crucial, as was the ability to easily deliver an updated API system that was accessible and easy for the MTC to maintain. Tyk ticked all the right boxes. Read more about this case study.