Production-grade API gateway features for routing, traffic, and observability
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DreamFactory behaves as a production-grade API gateway in front of your services and data APIs: reverse proxying with path- and header-based routing, URL rewriting, health checks with load balancing and failover, and traffic protection through rate limits, quotas, throttling, and request size limits.
Request and response caching reduce load and latency, while centralized logs, metrics, and traces provide complete visibility into API behavior.
DreamFactory runs as an API gateway in your environment, or behind your existing API gateway, providing core API functionality for routing, traffic management, and observability over every data API. The DreamFactory AI data gateway keeps the gateway, policies, and analytics close to your systems so you can shape and monitor traffic without rewriting back-end services.
Reverse proxying, routing, and transformation across services and data APIs
Health checks, load balancing, and failover to keep APIs online
Rate limits, quotas, throttling, and size limits at the edge
Response and request caching to reduce load and latency
Central logs, metrics, and traces for complete API functionality visibility
DreamFactory works with your production environments to route, secure, and manage API traffic across backend services.
Forward client calls to internal services and hide their locations
Direct requests to the right backend or version based on URL structure
Use headers and metadata to steer traffic between services
Adjust paths and query strings at the gateway without changing back-ends
Add, remove, or modify headers for security, routing, and observability needs
DreamFactory's API gateway features help keep data APIs and services resilient even when individual components fail.
Distribute traffic across multiple backend instances for performance and stability
Probe gateways and services to drive routing and failover decisions
Switch traffic automatically when instances or zones go down
Support blue/green or similar strategies as you evolve APIs behind the gateway
DreamFactory shapes, prioritizes, and limits API traffic as part of its core API gateway features.
Cap how many requests a client can make in a given window
Slow or temporarily restrict traffic when thresholds are exceeded
Enforce daily, monthly, or plan-based consumption limits
Block oversized payloads that could harm downstream systems
These gateway features reduce load on back-end systems by caching work where it makes sense.
Serve repeat requests from cache instead of re-hitting services
Reuse upstream results for identical calls keyed by parameters
Configure cache keys, TTLs, and invalidation rules at the gateway layer
DreamFactory collects usage, performance, and error metrics for APIs and exposes them through logging and analytics so you can see how your AI data gateway is behaving in real time.
Capture detailed call data for debugging and audits
Monitor traffic levels, latency, and error rates across services
Follow requests across microservices to find bottlenecks and failures
Export metrics via Prometheus and OpenTelemetry into your observability stack
Build views and alerts on key gateway and API functionality metrics
Yes. As a reverse proxy it forwards client calls to internal services with path- and header-based routing and URL rewriting — backends stay hidden and unchanged.
Health checks, load balancing, and failover keep endpoints online, while rate limits, quotas, and throttling protect backends from abuse and traffic spikes.
Central logs, metrics, and traces across all APIs, providing the analytics and audit visibility operations and compliance teams need.
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