# Apache RocketMQ

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/apache-rocketmq/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

Apache RocketMQ is a distributed messaging and streaming platform with low latency, high performance, and reliability. It provides trillion-level message capacity with rich message types including normal, transactional, delayed, and ordered messages.

## Kin Score — 29.5 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 29.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 54.4 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 20.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (4)

- **Apache RocketMQ Brokers API** — The Brokers API from Apache RocketMQ — 1 operation(s) for brokers.
- **Apache RocketMQ ConsumerGroups API** — The ConsumerGroups API from Apache RocketMQ — 1 operation(s) for consumergroups.
- **Apache RocketMQ Messages API** — The Messages API from Apache RocketMQ — 3 operation(s) for messages.
- **Apache RocketMQ Topics API** — The Topics API from Apache RocketMQ — 2 operation(s) for topics.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Apache Rocketmq Agentic Access** — 10 operations · 6 acting

## Security (2)

- **Apache Rocketmq Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Apache Rocketmq Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Apache Rocketmq Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (4)

- **Order Processing** — Ensure ordered processing of e-commerce order events
- **Event-Driven Microservices** — Decouple microservices with reliable asynchronous messaging
- **Log Aggregation** — Aggregate application logs from distributed services
- **Financial Transactions** — Reliable transactional messaging for financial systems

## Tags

Cloud-Native, Messaging, Message Queue, Pub-Sub, Streaming, Apache, Open-Source

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/apache-rocketmq/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.