--- title: "Govern Your APIs with Traefik Hub" description: "Learn how Traefik Hub provides comprehensive API Gateway and API Management capabilities to govern, secure, and manage your APIs at scale." --- # Govern Your APIs with Traefik Hub Traefik Hub transforms your API infrastructure by providing enterprise-grade API Gateway and comprehensive API Management capabilities. Built on the foundation of Traefik Proxy, Hub enables organizations to govern, secure, and manage APIs at scale across cloud-native environments. ## API Gateway and API Management Capabilities Traefik Hub offers two complementary approaches to API governance: - [Traefik Hub API Gateway](https://traefik.io/solutions/api-gateway/): Enterprise-grade security, distributed features, and advanced access control for cloud-native API gateway scenarios. It includes AI Gateway capabilities for modern machine learning workloads. - [Traefik Hub API Management](https://traefik.io/solutions/api-management/): Comprehensive API lifecycle management, developer portals, and organizational features for teams managing multiple APIs across environments. ## API Management Features Traefik Hub API Management provides a complete suite of features designed to streamline API governance and accelerate developer productivity: ### Comprehensive API Lifecycle Management - **Centralized API Catalog**: Comprehensive API inventory providing real-time visibility and control - **Advanced Versioning**: Utilize the most flexible API versioning and Kubernetes-native labels to logically organize APIs, track their evolution over time, and avoid breaking changes for client applications - **Quality Control**: Perform error checks and change impact analysis with Traefik Hub's static analyzer to ensure compliance and prevent misconfiguration by catching errors early - **Resource Management**: Centralize rate limits, quotas, and policy enforcement across groups of APIs through Plans & Bundles, ensuring consistent and efficient resource management - **Subscription Management**: Create managed and self-serve subscriptions for enhanced ease-of-use, security, and auditability - **Standards Compliance**: Import, validate, and manage APIs using industry-standard OpenAPI specifications ### Developer Experience & Self-Service - **Customizable Portals**: Easily create one or more dedicated API Portals for developers to discover, understand, and interact with your APIs - **Interactive API Testing**: Allow developers to test APIs directly within the portal for immediate feedback - **Branded Experience**: Customize the API portal to house API documentation, clear integration instructions, and personalized content to foster adoption and streamline development - **Credential Management**: Generate API access credentials, such as API keys, directly from the portal for simplified access and secure integration - **Auto-generated Documentation**: Automatically generated, interactive API documentation from OpenAPI specifications in the portal ### Enterprise-Grade Security - **Access Control**: Implement fine-grained permissions through detailed API policies and JWT inspection to secure access to API resources - **Identity Integration**: Leverage existing identity and access management (IAM) solutions, such as Keycloak, Okta, Auth0, etc. through industry-standard authentication protocols, including native OIDC support - **Data Protection**: Advanced TLS management, supporting Let's Encrypt (ACME) and SPIFFE for robust data protection - **Threat Prevention**: Native Web Application Firewall (WAF) powered by OWASP Coraza to defend against known vulnerabilities ### Observability - **Open Standards Monitoring**: Gain deep insights into API health and performance with OpenTelemetry integration to provide metrics and tracing capabilities without vendor lock-in - **Third-party Integrations**: Turnkey integration with Treblle directly on the Traefik Hub Dashboard for real-time, out-of-the-box observability without maintaining a complex monitoring infrastructure - **Pre-built Grafana Dashboards**: Ready-to-use monitoring dashboards with key API metrics and performance indicators ## Getting Started with API Governance Transform your API infrastructure with Traefik Hub's governance capabilities: 1. **Start with API Gateway**: Implement enterprise security, authentication, distributed features, and AI Gateway capabilities 2. **Scale with API Management**: Add comprehensive lifecycle management, developer portals, and governance features Ready to govern your APIs at scale? Explore [Traefik Hub API Management](https://traefik.io/solutions/api-management/) and discover how it can transform your API strategy.