Buoyant

Buoyant is the creator of Linkerd, the CNCF-graduated service mesh for Kubernetes. Linkerd provides zero-trust security via mutual TLS, ultra-high availability with automated failover, and observability for microservices including AI/LLM workloads. Buoyant Enterprise Linkerd adds enterprise features including FIPS 140-2/140-3 validated encryption and multi-cluster support.

Buoyant publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include AI Observability, Kubernetes, Linkerd, mTLS, and Observability.

Buoyant’s developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 11 more developer resources.

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20.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessFreemium

2 APIs

AI ObservabilityKubernetesLinkerdmTLSObservabilityService MeshZero Trust

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 20.7/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 20

Access Clarity 5.3 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Buoyant Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

ContributionGuide

ContributionGuide

Documentation

Documentation

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

CodeOfConduct

CodeOfConduct

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityPolicy

SecurityPolicy

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

IssueTracker

Releases

Slack

Community

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License

License

Pricing

Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: buoyant
name: Buoyant
description: Buoyant is the creator of Linkerd, the CNCF-graduated service mesh for Kubernetes. Linkerd provides zero-trust
  security via mutual TLS, ultra-high availability with automated failover, and observability for microservices including
  AI/LLM workloads. Buoyant Enterprise Linkerd adds enterprise features including FIPS 140-2/140-3 validated encryption and
  multi-cluster support.
type: Index
kind: company
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/buoyant.png
tags:
- AI Observability
- Kubernetes
- Linkerd
- mTLS
- Observability
- Service Mesh
- Zero Trust
created: '2026-01-02'
modified: '2026-04-21'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/buoyant/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: buoyant:linkerd
  name: Linkerd Service Mesh
  description: Linkerd is a CNCF-graduated service mesh for Kubernetes that transparently adds mutual TLS encryption, latency-aware
    load balancing, retries, timeouts, circuit breaking, and observability to any Kubernetes workload without code changes.
    Supports HTTP, HTTP/2, gRPC, and TCP traffic.
  humanURL: https://linkerd.io/
  tags:
  - Kubernetes
  - mTLS
  - Observability
  - Service Mesh
  - Zero Trust
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://linkerd.io/2.x/overview/
  - type: Website
    url: https://linkerd.io/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://linkerd.io/2.x/reference/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2
  x-features:
  - Mutual TLS for transparent encryption and authentication
  - Cryptographic workload identity
  - Latency-aware load balancing
  - Automated retries, timeouts, and circuit breaking
  - Zone-aware routing (HAZL) to reduce cross-zone costs
  - Canary and blue-green deployment support
  - AI/LLM observability for resource, tool, and prompt usage metrics
  - Multi-cluster failover
  - FIPS 140-2/140-3 validated encryption (Enterprise)
  x-use-cases:
  - Zero-trust Kubernetes networking
  - Service-to-service mutual TLS without code changes
  - Observability for microservices and AI workloads
  - Multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments
  - Migration between cloud providers
- aid: buoyant:buoyant-enterprise-linkerd
  name: Buoyant Enterprise Linkerd (BEL)
  description: Buoyant Enterprise Linkerd is the enterprise-supported distribution of Linkerd with additional features including
    FIPS-validated cryptography, lifecycle automation, multi-cluster networking, and enterprise SLA support.
  humanURL: https://buoyant.io/linkerd-enterprise
  tags:
  - Enterprise
  - FIPS
  - Kubernetes
  - Service Mesh
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.buoyant.io/buoyant-enterprise-linkerd/latest/overview/
  - type: Website
    url: https://buoyant.io/linkerd-enterprise
common:
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2/issues
- type: Releases
  url: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2/releases
- type: SecurityPolicy
  url: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2/blob/main/SECURITY.md
- type: CodeOfConduct
  url: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- type: ContributionGuide
  url: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
- type: License
  name: Apache-2.0
  url: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2/blob/main/LICENSE
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/buoyant-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/buoyantio
- type: Portal
  url: https://buoyant.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://linkerd.io/2.x/overview/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/linkerd
- type: Blog
  url: https://buoyant.io/blog/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://buoyant.io/pricing/
- type: Slack
  url: https://slack.linkerd.io/
- type: Community
  url: https://linkerd.io/community/
- type: Integrations
  url: https://www.buoyant.io/partners
integrations:
- name: Service Mesh Academy
- name: AWS
- name: Suse
- name: IntelliGCR
- name: Microsoft
- name: krumware
- name: testifysec
- name: Datadog
- name: close nav
- name: Linkedin
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Buoyant

Kin Score

APIs 2

Linkerd Service Mesh

Buoyant Enterprise Linkerd (BEL)

Pricing Plans 1

Buoyant Plans Pricing