# Ocelot API Gateway

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/ocelot/ocelot-gateway/  
**Provider:** Ocelot — https://apis.io/providers/ocelot/  
**Base URL:** https://ocelot.readthedocs.io/  
**Documentation:** https://ocelot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Ocelot API Gateway is one of 4 APIs that [Ocelot](https://apis.io/providers/ocelot/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include .NET, API Gateway, Microservices, and Routing. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, a getting-started guide, an API reference, authentication docs, and a GitHub repository.

Ocelot is an open-source .NET API Gateway that provides routing, authentication, authorization, rate limiting, load balancing, caching, and service discovery for microservices architectures. It is configured via JSON files and integrates with ASP.NET Core middleware pipelines.

## Machine-readable artifacts (6)

- **Documentation** — https://ocelot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- **GettingStarted** — https://ocelot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction/gettingstarted.html
- **Reference** — https://ocelot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/features/configuration.html
- **Authentication** — https://ocelot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/features/authentication.html
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/ThreeMammals/Ocelot
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ocelot/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Ocelot APIs (3)

- [Ocelot Authentication API](https://apis.io/apis/ocelot/ocelot-authentication-api/)
- [Ocelot Cache API](https://apis.io/apis/ocelot/ocelot-cache-api/)
- [Ocelot Configuration API](https://apis.io/apis/ocelot/ocelot-configuration-api/)

## Tags

.NET, API Gateway, Microservices, Routing

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/ocelot/ocelot-gateway/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/ocelot/.