What is Tyk Cloud?
Tyk is a lightweight, open source API Gateway and enables you to control who accesses your API, when they access it and how they access it. Tyk will also record detailed analytics on how your users are interacting with your API and when things go wrong.
Tyk Cloud is a tool in the API Tools category of a tech stack.
Tyk Cloud is an open source tool with 6K GitHub stars and 769 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Tyk Cloud's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Tyk Cloud?
Companies
11 companies reportedly use Tyk Cloud in their tech stacks, including Mobile Action, Twig World, and Senz.
Developers
28 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Tyk Cloud.
Tyk Cloud Integrations
MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, and MongoDB Atlas are some of the popular tools that integrate with Tyk Cloud. Here's a list of all 8 tools that integrate with Tyk Cloud.
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Tyk Cloud's Features
- API Management Dashboard
- API Analytics
- API Developer Portal
- Rate limits
- Flexible access protocols
- Metered Access
- Global or granular access control
- Mocks
- Header Injections
- Developer onboarding and enrollment
Tyk Cloud Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Tyk Cloud?
Postman
It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.
Amazon API Gateway
Amazon API Gateway handles all the tasks involved in accepting and processing up to hundreds of thousands of concurrent API calls, including traffic management, authorization and access control, monitoring, and API version management.
Insomnia REST Client
Insomnia is a powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux.
OpenAPI
It is a publicly available application programming interface that provides developers with programmatic access to a proprietary software application or web service.
Paw
Paw is a full-featured and beautifully designed Mac app that makes interaction with REST services delightful. Either you are an API maker or consumer, Paw helps you build HTTP requests, inspect the server's response and even generate client code.
