API traffic management, transformation and security all in one place
Use Tyk to manage your APIs so that you can design, secure, operate, scale and monetise consumption. Our API gateway traffic management solution is secure, reliable and easy to use.
Secure, shape and transform your traffic with Tyk’s API security platform
Tyk delivers industry-standard API traffic management and security solutions out of the box. Everything you need to manage your traffic and secure your APIs and microservices is easily configurable.
Tyk is extensible to accommodate your unique requirements. From custom routing decisions and security implementations to data-masking of analytics, you can mold Tyk to your needs.
Shape your traffic how you want, when you want, with Tyk’s traffic management solutions. Benefit from:
- API rate limiting – to ensure your API doesn’t get flooded with requests
- Request throttling – automatically queue and auto-retry client requests when quota or rate limits are hit
- Request quotas – control request volumes over longer periods
- Request size limits – prevent large payloads being used for DDoS attacks, enforceable at the API and individual endpoint level
- Key management and expiry – set API token lifetimes to ensure compliance with your access management policies
- Load balancing – Tyk provides native round-robin load balancing to rotate requests through target hosts
- Service discovery – Tyk is compatible with popular service discovery tools to direct API traffic to the right places
- Circuit breaker – cut off traffic to failing nodes to ensure your API availability remains high
- Progressive delivery – the full Tyk stack is API-driven to enable you to integrate Tyk with your CI/CD pipelines to deliver APIs faster
Easy, effective API traffic transformation
Transform your API traffic however you need with Tyk’s open source API gateway. You can convert to and from SOAP (XML), REST and GraphQL to meet your needs, while delivering a single, unified point of entry for your API consumers.
Tyk provides out-of-the-box middleware to modify inbound and outbound body data and header information on the fly. You can also extend Tyk with built-in scripting or write your own plugins to accommodate your requirements.
We give you, your team and your entire organization the tools you need to transform your traffic quickly and easily. Achieve what you need in just a few clicks – whatever your service or stack looks like, Tyk complements your work and tools.
An API security solution for when it counts most
From healthcare to fintechs, global enterprises rely on Tyk’s API security solutions.
Industry-standard security in just a few clicks
Consistent, reliable API security has never been more important. Tyk enables your organization to enforce platform-wide security with a few clicks. The security you require isn’t behind an enterprise-only paywall, nor does it impose limitations on what you can configure – everything you need is included from the outset. Use Tyk for:
- Authentication and authorization – multiple security options to lock down your APIs and microservices built on open standards, Bearer Tokens, OAuth 2.0, OpenID connect (OIDC), JWT and more
- Defining security policies – for easy application of multiple security options
- Certificate pinning – protection in case of upstream certificate compromise
- Key level security – robust access control at key level
- Key hashing – token obfuscation using a key hash
- TLS and MTLS – Tyk supports TLS connections and Mutual TLS
- Password policy – control password requirements for dashboard users, developers and basic auth keys, and enhance it with single sign-on with your identity provider
You can use Tyk Dashboard to enable multiple security options, for secure traffic and compliance with open standards. That’s why Tyk is proven and trusted by banks, governments, healthcare providers and more.
Take an API-led approach to success
Tyk’s approach to API management is to enable your business to achieve more. With Tyk managing your traffic and APIs, you can:
- Shape your traffic to optimise the performance of your APIs and microservices
- Secure your services rapidly and effectively
- Take care of your legacy spaghetti while providing a consistent façade to your consumers
- Make life easier for your developers and improve productivity
Tyk fits around your architecture and your processes, whether you’re a startup with a few APIs or a hugely distributed team working together.
Everything you need in one easy-to-implement solution
Keep your developers and your CEO happy
Tyk does things your way. We fit around your architecture, processes and workflows to enable you to secure, shape and transform your traffic with ease. Whether you’re multi-region, cloud-native, microservices or monolith, we deliver. We integrate API workflows with your CI/CD pipeline, all in line with GitOps best practices.
Tyk is deployed in financial institutions, healthcare providers and regulated industries all over the world. They trust us to be a solid foundation for their businesses.
What is a traffic management API gateway?
Tyk is an API gateway solution that enables you to securely shape and transform your traffic.
It sits between your backend services and your API consumers, presenting a single, unified point of entry for consumers while allowing you to abstract and maintain your backend.
With Tyk’s traffic management API gateway, you have a powerful range of options at your fingertips, to allow you to optimise your traffic flows to underpin seamless performance and make the most of monetisation opportunities.
