Resilience4j

Resilience4j is a lightweight fault tolerance library designed for Java 17+ and functional programming, providing higher-order functions to enhance functional interfaces with Circuit Breaker, Rate Limiter, Retry, Bulkhead, TimeLimiter, and Cache patterns. Designed as a replacement for Netflix Hystrix, it integrates with Spring Boot 2 and 3, Micronaut, RxJava, Spring Reactor, Micrometer, Prometheus, and Dropwizard Metrics. Used in production by Deutsche Telekom (400M+ requests/day), PlayStation Network, AOL, and Auto Trader Group.

Resilience4j publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Bulkhead, Circuit Breaker, Fault Tolerance, Java, and Microservices.

The Resilience4j catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Resilience4j’s developer surface includes documentation, getting-started guide, GitHub presence, release notes, and 9 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Source on GitHub

21.8/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

AccessFreemium

1 APIs

BulkheadCircuit Breaker Fault Tolerance Java Microservices Rate Limiter Resilience Retry Spring Boot Functional Programming

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scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

Composite quality — 21.8/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 6.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.1 / 20

Access Clarity 3.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Contract Governance 1.2 / 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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5

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APIs 1

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Resilience4J Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

JSON Schema 5

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Examples 1

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SpringDemo

SpringDemo

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ReleaseNotes

ReleaseNotes

Issues

Issues

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License

License

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

MavenCentral

MavenCentral

SpringBoot

SpringBoot

Micronaut

Micronaut

Source (apis.yml)

aid: resilience4j
name: Resilience4j
description: Resilience4j is a lightweight fault tolerance library designed for Java 17+ and functional programming, providing
  higher-order functions to enhance functional interfaces with Circuit Breaker, Rate Limiter, Retry, Bulkhead, TimeLimiter,
  and Cache patterns. Designed as a replacement for Netflix Hystrix, it integrates with Spring Boot 2 and 3, Micronaut, RxJava,
  Spring Reactor, Micrometer, Prometheus, and Dropwizard Metrics. Used in production by Deutsche Telekom (400M+ requests/day),
  PlayStation Network, AOL, and Auto Trader Group.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/resilience4j.png
tags:
- Bulkhead
- Circuit Breaker
- Fault Tolerance
- Java
- Microservices
- Rate Limiter
- Resilience
- Retry
- Spring Boot
- Functional Programming
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/resilience4j/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-26'
modified: '2026-05-02'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: resilience4j:resilience4j
  name: Resilience4j
  description: 'Resilience4j is a lightweight fault tolerance library for Java 17+ using functional programming patterns.
    It provides six core resilience patterns: Circuit Breaker (prevents cascading failures), Rate Limiter (controls throughput),
    Bulkhead (isolates resources), Retry (automatic retries with backoff), TimeLimiter (timeout handling), and Cache (result
    caching). Spring Boot Actuator integration exposes management endpoints for monitoring circuit breaker state, events,
    and metrics.'
  humanURL: https://resilience4j.readme.io/
  tags:
  - Bulkhead
  - Circuit Breaker
  - Fault Tolerance
  - Java
  - Microservices
  - Rate Limiter
  - Resilience
  - Retry
  - Spring Boot
  - Functional Programming
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://resilience4j.readme.io/docs
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://resilience4j.readme.io/docs/getting-started
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/resilience4j/resilience4j
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/resilience4j/refs/heads/main/json-schema/circuit-breaker-configuration.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/resilience4j/refs/heads/main/json-schema/retry-configuration.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/resilience4j/refs/heads/main/json-schema/rate-limiter-configuration.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/resilience4j/refs/heads/main/json-schema/bulkhead-configuration.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/resilience4j/refs/heads/main/json-schema/time-limiter-configuration.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/resilience4j/refs/heads/main/json-structure/resilience4j-circuit-breaker-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/resilience4j/refs/heads/main/json-structure/resilience4j-retry-structure.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/resilience4j/refs/heads/main/json-ld/resilience4j-context.jsonld
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/resilience4j/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/resilience4j-vocabulary.yml
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/resilience4j-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://resilience4j.readme.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://resilience4j.readme.io/docs
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://resilience4j.readme.io/docs/getting-started
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/resilience4j/resilience4j
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/resilience4j
- type: ReleaseNotes
  url: https://github.com/resilience4j/resilience4j/releases
- type: Issues
  url: https://github.com/resilience4j/resilience4j/issues
- type: License
  url: https://github.com/resilience4j/resilience4j/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
- type: MavenCentral
  url: https://search.maven.org/search?q=io.github.resilience4j
- type: SpringBoot
  url: https://resilience4j.readme.io/docs/getting-started-3
- type: Micronaut
  url: https://resilience4j.readme.io/docs/getting-started-4
- type: SpringDemo
  url: https://github.com/resilience4j/resilience4j-spring-boot-demo
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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