Operations
Apiway gives you runtime visibility into your API portfolio — metering, cost control, and risk management. All enforcement happens at the gateway with minimal latency.
What You Get
Section titled “What You Get”| Capability | What It Does |
|---|---|
| RU Metering | Tracks resource consumption per API, per operation, per subscription |
| Cost Centre | P&L reporting across your API portfolio |
| Budget Guards | Soft alerts and hard stops to prevent runaway costs |
| Rate Limiting | Per-subscription request throttling |
| Risk Dashboard | Real-time security event tracking and classification |
| SSE Events | Live streaming of operational events to your applications |
Real-Time Architecture
Section titled “Real-Time Architecture”The gateway captures operational data at request time and pushes it to backend services asynchronously:
- Gateway captures events (RU consumption, security violations, rate limit breaches) at request time
- Events are buffered in memory and flushed in batches (5-15ms overhead per request)
- RU Service and Risk Service aggregate and classify events
- Events are published via Server-Sent Events (SSE) for real-time consumption
- Management UI and your applications subscribe to SSE streams
This architecture keeps gateway latency minimal while providing real-time operational visibility.
In This Section
Section titled “In This Section”- Metering & Billing — Resource unit tracking and cost centre
- Cost Control — Budget guards for produced and consumed APIs
- Risk Management — Security event tracking and classification