API gateway

An API gateway acts as a single entry point for multiple APIs, allowing you to manage, secure, and optimize your APIs effectively. It ensures that all API requests are routed correctly and that responses are returned efficiently. An API gateway is crucial for managing and exposing APIs in a secure and scalable manner.

Key capabilities

Workato's API gateway adopts a low-code/no-code approach, simplifying API management while providing enterprise-grade security and governance capabilities. The API gateway offers robust capabilities for managing your APIs, integrating advanced security, efficient routing, and effective mediation. These features ensure your APIs perform optimally and reliably.

Explore the following capabilities to enhance the security, performance, and reliability of your APIs:

API security

Securely expose your APIs with Workato’s enterprise-grade security measures. Workato's API gateway supports various authentication methods to ensure secure access to APIs. Use OAuth 2.0, JWT tokens and OpenID Connect to provide flexibility and security in how APIs are accessed and used. Learn more.

Traffic management

Optimize API performance and reliability with effective traffic management. Workato's API gateway includes features for load balancing, concurrency control and request throttling. These features allow you to evenly distribute traffic, safeguard backend systems, and prevent service overloads. Manage traffic flow through your APIs to ensure consistent and reliable performance, even during peak periods. You can use tools such as RecipeOps triggers to proactively manage your API usage or configure your concurrency settings to meet specific performance requirements.

Mediation

Workato’s API gateway enables smooth integration between business applications, data formats and protocols. Transform data seamlessly from XML to JSON, or adapt protocols from SOAP to REST, allowing your internal business systems to work together efficiently.