# KrakenD Async Agent

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/krakend/krakend-async-agent/  
**Provider:** KrakenD — https://apis.io/providers/krakend/  
**Documentation:** https://www.krakend.io/docs/async/

KrakenD Async Agent is one of 5 APIs that [KrakenD](https://apis.io/providers/krakend/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition. Tagged areas include Async, Event-Driven, Kafka, and Messaging. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, a GitHub repository, and 1 JSON Schema.

The KrakenD Async Agent enables event-driven API consumption by connecting KrakenD to message brokers and event queues such as AMQP, Kafka, and NATS. It allows KrakenD to consume messages from topics and queues and forward them to backend services without requiring an inbound HTTP request from a client.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://www.krakend.io/docs/async/
- **Reference** — https://www.krakend.io/docs/async/amqp/
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/krakend/refs/heads/main/json-schema/async-agent.json
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/krakend/krakend-ce

## Other KrakenD APIs (4)

- [KrakenD](https://apis.io/apis/krakend/krakend/)
- [KrakenD Debug API](https://apis.io/apis/krakend/krakend-debug-api/)
- [KrakenD Health API](https://apis.io/apis/krakend/krakend-health-api/)
- [KrakenD Metrics API](https://apis.io/apis/krakend/krakend-metrics-api/)

## Tags

Async, Event-Driven, Kafka, Messaging

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