Scalability

A subject-matter collection covering APIs, tools, frameworks, and data sources related to application scalability, infrastructure scaling, performance optimization, and elastic resource management. This topic spans cloud provider auto-scaling, event-driven autoscaling (KEDA), load balancing, database scaling, and observability for scale.

Scalability publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including KEDA (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling) API, AWS Auto Scaling API, Google Cloud Compute Engine Autoscaler API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Auto Scaling, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Distributed Systems, and Elasticity.

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

Scalability’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 6 more developer resources.

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38.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 19/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1

AccessFreemium

7 APIs

Auto ScalingCloud ComputingDevOpsDistributed SystemsElasticityHigh AvailabilityInfrastructureLoad BalancingPerformanceScalability

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Composite quality — 38.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 11.3 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20

Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13

Governance 8.3 / 12

Discoverability 5.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 19/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

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 7

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Scalability Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

JSON Schema 2

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

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONLD

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CNCF Landscape

CNCF Landscape

Source (apis.yml)

name: Scalability
description: A subject-matter collection covering APIs, tools, frameworks, and data sources related to application scalability,
  infrastructure scaling, performance optimization, and elastic resource management. This topic spans cloud provider auto-scaling,
  event-driven autoscaling (KEDA), load balancing, database scaling, and observability for scale.
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- Cloud Computing
- DevOps
- Distributed Systems
- Elasticity
- High Availability
- Infrastructure
- Load Balancing
- Performance
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- name: KEDA (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling) API
  description: KEDA is a Kubernetes-based event-driven autoscaling component and CNCF graduate project. It provides fine-grained
    autoscaling (including to/from zero) for event-driven Kubernetes workloads by bridging over 70 built-in scalers to message
    brokers, cloud services, and databases. KEDA extends the Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) with custom resource
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- name: AWS Auto Scaling API
  description: Amazon Web Services Auto Scaling monitors applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady,
    predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. Supports EC2 Auto Scaling, Application Auto Scaling for ECS, DynamoDB,
    Lambda, and more. Part of the AWS SDK and REST API surface.
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- name: Google Cloud Compute Engine Autoscaler API
  description: Google Cloud's Autoscaler API enables automatic scaling of managed instance groups based on CPU utilization,
    load balancing capacity, or Cloud Monitoring metrics. Integrates with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for cluster autoscaling
    and node auto-provisioning.
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- name: Azure Autoscale REST API
  description: Microsoft Azure Autoscale provides a REST API for managing autoscale settings on Azure resources including
    Virtual Machine Scale Sets, App Service, and Azure Container Apps. Supports schedule-based and metric-based scaling rules
    with notification capabilities.
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  - Cloud
  - Microsoft
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- name: CloudWatch Application Signals API
  description: Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals provides application performance monitoring (APM) to help detect and
    diagnose performance issues and automatically correlate them with infrastructure metrics for scaling decisions. Part of
    the AWS observability suite used in scalability engineering.
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- name: Prometheus HTTP API
  description: Prometheus is the de-facto open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit for cloud-native applications and a
    CNCF graduate project. The Prometheus HTTP API provides access to time series data, metadata, and administrative functions
    used extensively in scalability engineering to track metrics and inform autoscaling decisions.
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- name: Grafana HTTP API
  description: Grafana is the open-source platform for monitoring and observability, providing a REST HTTP API for managing
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    alerting workflows.
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    url: https://community.grafana.com/
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Scalability

Kin Score

APIs 7

KEDA (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling) API

AWS Auto Scaling API

Google Cloud Compute Engine Autoscaler API

Azure Autoscale REST API

CloudWatch Application Signals API

Prometheus HTTP API

Grafana HTTP API

Pricing Plans 1

Scalability Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Scalability Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Scalability Finops

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Scalability Context

Spectral Rules 1

Scalability API Rules

JSON Schema 2

Load Balancer

Scaling Policy

JSON Structure 2

Scalability Load Balancer Structure

Scalability Scaling Policy Structure