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Envoy Proxy

Envoy Proxy is an open-source edge and service proxy that is designed for cloud-native applications. It acts as a gateway for all incoming and outgoing traffic within a microservices architecture, providing functionalities such as load balancing, service discovery, encryption, authentication, and observability. Envoy Proxy is known for its high performance and low latency, making it a popular choice for companies seeking to optimize their network traffic and improve overall system efficiency.

agent aware

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Envoy Proxy the way a machine reads it — 38 machine-readable artifacts across 25 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Envoy Proxy scores 49.2/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 49.2/100 · developing
Contract Quality 13.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 6.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 7.5 / 10
Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Envoy Proxy

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Envoy Proxy. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 25

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Envoy Proxy Rate Limit Service API

The Envoy Rate Limit Service (RLS) is a gRPC-based API that allows Envoy to delegate rate limiting decisions to an external service. When a request matches a configured rate lim...

Envoy Proxy Health Discovery Service API

The Envoy Health Discovery Service (HDS) is a gRPC-based API that enables a management server to instruct Envoy to perform health checks on behalf of the control plane and repor...

Envoy Proxy gRPC Access Log Service API

The Envoy gRPC Access Log Service (ALS) API provides a streaming gRPC interface for receiving access log entries from Envoy instances in real time. It enables centralized log ag...

Envoy Proxy External Processing API

The Envoy External Processing API is a gRPC-based service that enables an external server to inspect and modify HTTP requests and responses as they pass through Envoy. This exte...

Envoy Proxy External Authorization API

The Envoy External Authorization API provides a gRPC or HTTP interface for delegating authorization decisions to an external service. When a request arrives, Envoy calls the ext...

Envoy Proxy Metrics Service API

The Envoy Metrics Service API is a gRPC-based interface for streaming Envoy's statistics and metrics to a remote metrics collection service. It allows operators to centralize te...

Envoy Proxy Tap Service API

The Envoy Tap Service API provides a mechanism for intercepting and recording HTTP and TCP traffic passing through Envoy. The tap filter matches requests and responses based on ...

Envoy Proxy Certificates API

TLS certificate information endpoints.

Envoy Proxy Cluster Discovery API

Cluster Discovery Service (CDS) endpoints for dynamically discovering upstream clusters.

Envoy Proxy Clusters API

Cluster management and information endpoints.

Envoy Proxy Configuration API

Configuration inspection and dump endpoints.

Envoy Proxy Debugging API

Debugging and traffic inspection endpoints.

Envoy Proxy Endpoint Discovery API

Endpoint Discovery Service (EDS) endpoints for dynamically discovering cluster endpoints.

Envoy Proxy General API

General admin interface endpoints.

Envoy Proxy Health API

Health check management endpoints.

Envoy Proxy Listener Discovery API

Listener Discovery Service (LDS) endpoints for dynamically discovering listeners.

Envoy Proxy Listeners API

Listener management endpoints.

Envoy Proxy Logging API

Logging level management endpoints.

Envoy Proxy Profiling API

CPU and heap profiling endpoints.

Envoy Proxy Route Discovery API

Route Discovery Service (RDS) endpoints for dynamically discovering route configurations.

Envoy Proxy Runtime API

Runtime configuration management endpoints.

Envoy Proxy Runtime Discovery API

Runtime Discovery Service (RTDS) endpoints for dynamically discovering runtime configuration layers.

Envoy Proxy Secret Discovery API

Secret Discovery Service (SDS) endpoints for dynamically discovering TLS certificates and keys.

Envoy Proxy Server API

Server information and lifecycle endpoints.

Envoy Proxy Statistics API

Statistics and metrics endpoints.

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Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Envoy Proxy Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Envoy Proxy Context

4 classes · 10 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Envoy Proxy API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 4

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Envoy Proxy Cluster

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Envoy Proxy Endpoint

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Envoy Proxy Listener

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Envoy Proxy Route Configuration

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Envoy Proxy Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Envoy Proxy Agentic Access

32 operations · 16 acting · 4 human-in-the-loop

32 operations · 16 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Envoy Proxy — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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