# Vitess VTGate API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/vitess/vtgate-api/  
**Provider:** Vitess — https://apis.io/providers/vitess/  
**Documentation:** https://vitess.io/docs/reference/programs/vtgate/

Vitess VTGate API is one of 4 APIs that [Vitess](https://apis.io/providers/vitess/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include gRPC, MySQL, Proxy, Query Routing, and SQL. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an API reference.

VTGate is the stateless proxy that routes queries to the appropriate VTTablet instances. It exposes a MySQL-compatible interface and a gRPC API that clients use to interact with the Vitess cluster, handling query routing, scatter queries, and transaction management across shards.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://vitess.io/docs/reference/programs/vtgate/
- **Reference** — https://vitess.io/docs/reference/query-serving/
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vitess/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Vitess APIs (3)

- [Vitess VTAdmin API](https://apis.io/apis/vitess/vtadmin-api/)
- [Vitess VTCtld API](https://apis.io/apis/vitess/vtctld-api/)
- [Vitess VReplication API](https://apis.io/apis/vitess/vreplication-api/)

## Tags

gRPC, MySQL, Proxy, Query Routing, SQL

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