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Key KrakenD Features - Open Source VS Enterprise

List of features and functional differences between Community and Enterprise

Whether you opt for KrakenD's Open Source or Enterprise edition, you're choosing a robust API Gateway trusted by industry leaders. The Enterprise edition builds on this solid foundation by offering additional premium features designed for those looking to optimize time-to-market and operational costs. Vendor support is included with the Enterprise edition and available as an optional paid service for the Community edition.

Whichever path you choose, know that KrakenD engineers are committed to your success.


Community Edition VS Enterprise Edition comparison

CI/CD, GitOps, and development tools

Command line tools to integrate in your GitOps pipelines.

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KrakenD Designer
A visual tool to generate KrakenD configurations
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Audit configuration
Check security and best practices recommendations of your configuration before going live
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Syntax validation and linting
Validate configuration files (syntax, linting, route declaration testing)
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Flexible configuration
Declare the configuration using templates and environment-specific values
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Extended flexible configuration
Extends the flexible config adding $ref, nested directories, multiple settings file formats, conflict handling, debugging and more.
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Multi-format configuration
Write the configuration in JSON, YAML, TOML, HCL and more.
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Hot-reload in development
Speed up development with a specific container with hot-reload functionality
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IDE integration
Automatic validation as you type, showing documentation while hovering an attribute, explanation of errors, and autocompletion of properties
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Plugin builder
A ready-to-use image to build your custom Go plugins and embed them in KrakenD
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End-to-end testing tool
Integrated tool to write integration tests to launch in your pipeline and check that the functionality works correctly
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OpenAPI importer
Import configurations from OpenAPI + Mocking server generation (Swagger v2 & OpenAPI 3)
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OpenAPI exporter
Generate OpenAPI documentation from the KrakenD configuration
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OpenAPI server
Start an API gateway from an OpenAPI definition file.
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Postman
Generate Postman collections during the CI/CD stage
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DOT image generator
Generate Graphviz images displaying your configuration logic
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Dump to disk
Dump requests and responses into a files
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Request and response transformation

KrakenD goes beyond the simple proxying to service and offers numerous ways to work with multiple data sources simultaneously.

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Backend For Frontend
Create an API consumption layer that provides aggregated “views” of several services and returns only the needed data
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Aggregation
Create endpoints with data views aggregation from multiple APIs or services simultaneously
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Data transformation
Filter, group, capture, rename, inject, and more on responses from services.
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HTTP Cache headers (for CDN)
Set automatically cache headers for CDN or intermediate caching
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Automatic output encoding
Automatic output encoding and translation (XML, JSON, RSS, noop)
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Faster JSON decoding (fastjson)
A speed-optimized JSON decoder for larger datasets and complex objects
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Flatmap
Manipulate arrays and flatten objects from the response
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Gzip compression
Ouput compression of responses in gzip format
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Request manipulation using go templates (body generator)
Craft the body you send to a backend through templates, and injecting other values from the user request such as the original body, headers, querystrings or URL parameters.
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Response manipulation using go templates
Completely manipulate the response of a backend using Go templates before it is returned to the end-user.
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Response manipulation with query language
Select, slice, filter, map, project, flatten, sort, and all sorts of operations through a javascript-like query language
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Regular expression replacements
Modify the response of your services with regular expressions.
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Conditional request and responses (CEL)
Add validation rules to continue with the request or to return the response
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Lua scripting
Transform requests and responses with Lua scripts
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Custom Go plugins
Write your own Go plugins and side-load them with KrakenD to extend the functionality
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JSON Schema response validation
Ensure the response passes a JSON schema validation before returning it to the end-user
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JSON Schema request validation
Validate the request body against a JSON schema
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Martian (DSL)
Statically transform requests and responses through a simple DSL definition
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Multistrategy error handling
Override the policy of returning backend error details with different strategies (delegated, graceful degradation, forward, interpretation)
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Cache
Store backend responses in memory to reduce the number of calls a user sends to the origin, reducing the network traffic and alleviating your services’ pressure.
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Sequential proxy
Use the ouput of a previous call to be chained in the next call.
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Mocked data
Add static/stub data as replacement of failing responses or while you are scaffolding your project.
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Security

KrakenD is secure by default, and has a zero-trust approach. It also allows you to add and modify multiple options to protect you from hacking attempts.

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Security Policies Engine
A powerful engine that evaluates requests, responses and tokens during runtime and allows you to perform business validation logic, ABAC, and RBAC.
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TLS for HTTPS and HTTP/2
TLS configuration secured by default to TLS 1.3
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Zero-trust parameter forwarding
Explicit configuration for cookie, query-string, and headers forwarding
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Restrict connections by host
Define a list of hosts that KrakenD should accept requests to.
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Clickjacking protection
OWASP recommendations that add a frame-breaking strategy.
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MIME-Sniffing prevention
Prevent the user’s browser from interpreting files as something else than declared by the content type
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Cross-site scripting (XSS) protection
Enables the Cross-site scripting (XSS) filter in the user’s browser.
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HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)
Web security policy mechanism to protect websites against protocol downgrade attacks and cookie hijacking
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HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP)
Resist impersonation by attackers using mis-issued or otherwise fraudulent certificates.
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CORS
Cross-origin resource sharing
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Routing

Options to work with routing

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Noop proxy
Proxy requests to a single backend without manipulation and preserving the response as is.
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Traffic shadowing/mirroring
Test new backends in production by sending them copies of the traffic but ignore their responses.
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JWT claim-based routing
JSON Web Token processing to assemble the final upstream URL
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Catchall (Fallback upstream)
Receives all the traffic from routes and methods that do not resolve to any of the other existing endpoints in the configuration.
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Header and query string based dynamic routing
Header and query string processing to assemble the final upstream URL
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Wildcard routes
Create a single endpoint for a group of URLs sharing a common pattern (e.g.: /foo/*).
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URL rewrite
Define a set of URLs or regular expressions that are handled by an endpoint
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Virtual Hosts
Run different configurations of KrakenD endpoints based on the host accessing the server.
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Configurable client redirects
Allow the end-user to follow redirects set by services instead of the gateway resolving them.
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Authorization and authentication

Authorization, authentication and related functionalities to protect your endpoints.

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JWT, OpenID Connect, OAuth2
Authorize tokens coming from third parties or your company identity provider, and apply business logic rules.
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JWT token signing
A wrapper for your existing login endpoint that signs with your secret key the selected fields of the backend payload right before returning the content to the end-user.
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Client credentials
OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials Grant to automatically request access tokens before reaching the backend’s protected resources.
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Basic authentication
Authentication of requests based on .htpasswd files
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API keys
Authenticate users with API keys in headers or query strings
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Token revocation bloom filter
An RPC listener that allows you to revoke JWT tokens
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Revoke Server
An API to revoke tokens through all KrakenD nodes in a cluster
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Multiple identity providers per endpoint
Support validation of tokens originated in multiple identity providers, internal or external
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mTLS
Mutual TLS authentication (mTLS) for authentication in business-to-business (B2B) applications where clients provide certificates to connect to KrakenD.
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NTLM authentication
NT Login Manager Authentication against Window backends like Microsoft Dynamics.
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Services Connectivity

Integrations with non-REST services

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Protocol translation
Offer REST content while consuming other protocols from the services like AMQP, Kafka, NATS, gRPC to name a few
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gRPC
Connect to your gRPC services by providing the .proto files
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Static web server
Enable static web server capabilities to serve javascript applications, CSS, images, etc along with its API.
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Service discovery
Connect to services using weighted DNS SRV records
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GraphQL
REST to GraphQL transformation and GraphQL gateway as a proxy
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Load Balancing
Balancing egress traffic (to upstream)
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Async Agents
Implement event-driven architectures with Async agents, which react to new events in queues and push data to your backends or webhooks.
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Lambda functions
Invoke Amazon Lambda functions on a KrakenD endpoint call
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SOAP integration
REST to SOAP and request forgery and manipulation to efortlessly modernize legacy services
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WebSockets
WebSocket Protocol (RFC-6455) to enable two-way communication between a client to a backend host through the API gateway.
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Intermediary web proxy
Connections to services through an HTTP corporate proxy
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AMQP/RabbitMQ Consumer
Retrieve messages from a queue and deliver them to the user as a REST endpoint
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AMQP/RabbitMQ Producer
Publish a REST endpoint that sends messages to a queue automatically.
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Azure Service Bus Topic and Subscription
Enable message queuing and durable publish/subscribe messaging in Azure
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Google Cloud PubSub
Send and receive messages between independent applications using GCP PubSub
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NATS
Connect to the high performance open source messaging system NATS
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Apache Kafka
Enable the distributed streaming platform Apache Kafka
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Amazon SNS
Enable exchanging data with topics, push-based, many-to-many in AWS SNS
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Amazon SQS
Use queues from the managed Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
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Traffic Management

KrakenD offers several ways to protect the usage of your infrastructure that might act at very different levels.

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Concurrent calls
Improve the response times and decrease error rates by requesting in parallel the same information multiple times. Backend pressure in exchange for better response times.
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Circuit breaker
The circuit breaker prevents sending more traffic to a failing backend until it recovers, alleviating its pressure under challenging conditions.
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Spike Arrest and Burst
The Spike Arrest policy ensures a minimum time between different requests. KrakenD will enable Spike Arrest after exhausting the burst capacity of the rate-limiting features.
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Bot detector
Discard traffic from bot patterns
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Granular timeouts
Define the default timeout but per-endpoint timeouts, idle connections, and other settings.
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Service rate limit
Stateless rate limit to control the throughput of users against the API.
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Endpoint rate limit
Stateless rate limit to control the throughput of users against specific endpoints.
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Stateful rate limit (Redis backed)
A Redis database store to centralize all KrakenD node counters.
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Proxy rate limit
Restrict the connections KrakenD makes to your backends, independently of users’ acrivity.
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IP Filtering
Restrict the traffic to specific to all endpoints based on IP address and CIDR blocks.
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Maxmind's GeoIP
Forward requests to your services with enrichment coming from Maxmind’s GeoIP2 City database
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Observability

Logging, tracing and metrics.

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OpenTelemetry
Push KrakenD metrics and traces to any thrid party supporting OpenTelemetry
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Logging
Choose where and how to log the gateway activity
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Graylog/GELF logging
Send structured events in GELF format to your Graylog Cluster
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Extended metrics
Collect extended metrics to push them to InfluxDB or expose them in a /__stats/ endpoint for you to build a customized dashboard.
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Jaeger tracing
Submit spans to a Jaeger Collector (HTTP) or Jaeger Agent (UDP) automatically.
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AWS X-Ray metrics and traces
Push to AWS X-RAY end-to-end view of requests as they travel through your application, and the map of your application’s underlying components.
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Zipkin tracing
Export traces to Zipkin to troubleshoot latency problems in service architectures.
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Elastic Logstash
Application logs in JSON format
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ELK Stack dashboard
Have KrakenD pushing logs to your Elastic server and visualize them through a Kibana dashboard.
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Prometheus
Expose data to Prometheus, and publish a /metrics endpoint in the selected port.
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InfluxDB metrics
Export metrics and events to InfluxDB
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Grafana Dashboard
The preconfigured Grafana dashboard for KrakenD offers valuable information to understand the performance of your services and detect anomalies in the service.
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Google Cloud's operation suite
Export metrics and traces to Google Cloud
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Datadog
Push the gateway activity to Datadog, both stats and traces.
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Auth0/Okta
End-users validation, machine-to-machine, ot gateway-to-machine communication using Auth0.
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Keycloak
The Keycloak integration allows one of the many possible OpenID Connect different security options available in KrakenD.
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Azure Active Directory
You can use Azure Active Directory and protect endpoints with its JWT integration.
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NewRelic (through OpenTelemetry)
OpenSource users can push metrics and traces to NewRelic through OpenTelemetry, although NewRelic has limitations on the recognized data types (e.g., histograms).
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NewRelic (native SDK)
NewRelic integration with a custom implementation using the official NewRelic SDK. This is the easiest to setup (just declare an API key) and richest in data option for NewRelic users
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Azure OpenTelemetry Collector
The gateway sends all the traces to a local OpenTelemetry Collector that pushes all the data to your Application Insights on Azure Monitor.
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API Governance and API Monetization

Monetize API usage with a robust analytics and billing platform, and govern the usage of your APIs

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API Monetization (Moesif integration)
Monitor API usage and bill customers for their usage by directly connecting Stripe or similar tools.
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API Governance
Set usage rules on your Moesif dashboard and let KrakenD react in real-time and cut users that are exceeding their quota.
Not included in CommunityIncluded in Enterprise
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