Ship faster with ngrok's API Gateway

Get an API Gateway that just works out-of-the-box. No need to stand up and manage hundreds of gateways, deal with arcane reverse proxy or cloud specific configs or depend on Ops teams to deploy your configs.

Start instantly and run your production API traffic through the globally available ngrok network in minutes. You finally have an API Gateway that’s built for developers.

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How it works

ngrok operates a global network to manage traffic to all your APIs

Run a lightweight agent - distributed as an SDK, container, Kubernetes operator, or CLI.

Each of your APIs gets a URL endpoint.

You configure policies such as JWT authentication or rate limiting.

Traffic from clients is routed through the ngrok cloud to the agent and then to your API.

ngrok API Gateway as a service

Batteries included

Typically, you need to stitch together many different solutions and tools such as API gateway, Kubernetes Ingress, DDoS protection to securely deliver your apps and APIs. With ngrok, you get all of that more out of the box:

Typically, you need to stitch together many different solutions and tools or write custom code to handle performance, security, observability, and availability requirements. With ngrok, you get all of that and more out of the box:

Kubernetes Ingress

ngrok’s API gateway doubles as a Kubernetes Ingress solution. Leverage the same policies you have used for your API-Gateway as Kubernetes-native policy CRD (Ingress Controller) or extensionRef (Gateway API). Our flexible, idiomatic JSON and CEL-based traffic policy engine makes migrating APIs to Kubernetes a breeze.

Observability

Troubleshoot issues in real-time by getting visibility into traffic flows and other events right in the dashboard. Or forward traffic logs to your favorite observability tool and audit logs of configuration changes to your SIEM.

Global Acceleration

Your customers will enjoy a speed boost as ngrok pushes traffic policies that you configure to its global network. So authentication, transformations, load balancing and more happen as close to your customers as possible.

Global Load Balancing

Minimize latency for your apps and APIs by relying on ngrok’s intelligent routing that steers both end user and agent traffic to the nearest Point of Presence (PoP). Ensure high availability for your services with geo-aware load balancing and failover.

DDoS Protection

ngrok cloud enforces authentication and authorization, preventing unauthorized traffic from ever reaching your APIs and rogue webhooks from looping and spamming your service.