Introduction
Alibaba Cloud API Gateway is a fully managed, high-performance service that enables you to create, deploy, and manage APIs across their entire lifecycle. It acts as a unified entry point for client requests, decoupling front-end traffic from back-end services and ensuring secure, reliable communication.
Key Capabilities
- Security Protection: Safeguards APIs with authentication, access control, and signature verification to ensure secure communication.
- API Lifecycle Management: Manages APIs from creation to retirement with streamlined publishing, versioning, and maintenance.
- Request Verification: Validates incoming requests to ensure only correct and trusted traffic reaches backend services.
- Flexible Throttling: Controls API traffic through configurable rate limits and quotas to maintain stable performance.
- Integration with Alibaba Cloud Services: Connects seamlessly with compute, networking, and serverless services for end-to-end API delivery.
Setup
To set up the Alibaba integration and discover the Alibaba service, navigate to Alibaba Integration Discovery Profile and select API Gateway.
External Reference
Supported Metrics
| Metric | Metric Display Name | Unit | Aggregation Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| acs_apigateway_dashboard_Latency | Latency | ms | Average | Average response time for API requests processed by the gateway |
| acs_apigateway_dashboard_SumQPS | Sum QPS | count | Count | Total queries per second processed across all APIs |
| acs_apigateway_dashboard_TrafficRX | Traffic RX | B | Sum | Total incoming traffic received by the API Gateway |
| acs_apigateway_dashboard_TrafficTX | Traffic TX | B | Sum | Total outgoing traffic transmitted by the API Gateway |
| acs_apigateway_dashboard_code2XX | code2XX Number | count | Value | Number of successful API responses with 2XX status codes |
| acs_apigateway_dashboard_code429 | 429 Codes | count | Value | Number of rate limit exceeded responses with 429 status code |
| acs_apigateway_dashboard_code4XX | code4XX Number | count | Value | Number of client error responses with 4XX status codes |
| acs_apigateway_dashboard_code5XX | code5XX Number | count | Value | Number of server error responses with 5XX status codes |