# Envoy Proxy Admin API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/scalable-architecture/envoy-proxy-admin-api/  
**Provider:** Scalable Architecture — https://apis.io/providers/scalable-architecture/

Envoy Proxy Admin API is one of 8 APIs that [Scalable Architecture](https://apis.io/providers/scalable-architecture/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include CNCF, Load Balancing, Open-Source, Proxy, and Service Mesh. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an OpenAPI specification.

Envoy is a high-performance, open-source edge and service proxy, and the underlying data plane for Istio, Linkerd, and most service meshes. The Envoy Admin API provides REST endpoints for configuration, statistics, health checks, cluster management, and runtime modification. CNCF graduated project.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/operations/admin
- **GitHub** — https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy
- **OpenAPI** — https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/api-v3/api

## Other Scalable Architecture APIs (7)

- [Istio Service Mesh API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-architecture/istio-service-mesh-api/)
- [Linkerd API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-architecture/linkerd-api/)
- [Apache Kafka REST Proxy API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-architecture/apache-kafka-rest-proxy-api/)
- [Redis REST API (Redis Stack)](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-architecture/redis-rest-api-redis-stack/)
- [RabbitMQ Management HTTP API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-architecture/rabbitmq-management-http-api/)
- [Kubernetes API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-architecture/kubernetes-api/)
- [Argo Workflows API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-architecture/argo-workflows-api/)

## Tags

CNCF, Load Balancing, Open-Source, Proxy, Service Mesh, Traffic Management

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