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Microservices

Score 22.9 / 100 105 providers +11 via APIs 30 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (105)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Datadog APMAPMDistributed TracingObservability2 APIs80.4ApigeeApigeeAdvanced API SecurityAI AgentsAnalytics5 APIs66.9
Strong 8 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Azure Container AppsMicrosoft AzureContainersDaprKubernetes1 API61.2NVIDIA NIMArtificial IntelligenceInferenceLLM3 APIs60.6Amazon SQSCloudDistributed SystemsMessaging1 API57.2SignadotCompanyDeveloper ToolsKubernetesTesting1 API55.6IBM WebSphereApplication ServerCloud-NativeEnterprise JavaJ2EE7 APIs58.4FOLIOCompanyLibraryLibrary Services PlatformOpen Source101 APIs57.6AWS App RunnerCI/CDContainersDeploymentDeveloper Tools16 APIs55.6AWS App MeshDeprecatedEnvoyNetworking1 API55.0
Developing 20 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
ZeebeBPMNCamundaCloud-NativeDistributed Systems1 API48.4LumigoCompanyObservabilityMonitoringServerless1 API47.8PactFlowCompanyAPI TestingContract Testing8 APIs47.7PolyAPIIntegrationMiddlewareOrchestration1 API45.9Azure Service FabricDistributed SystemsContainersContainer Orchestration2 APIs42.7KumaEnvoyKubernetesSecurity1 API40.7Apache DubboApacheGoJava16 APIs40.3Amazon VPC LatticeService MeshService Networking73 APIs50.7AWS X-RayDebuggingDeveloper ToolsDistributed Tracing1 API50.0Amazon FargateComputeContainersECSEKS6 APIs49.1Juniper Mist AIArtificial IntelligenceAIOpsNetworkingWi-Fi1 API45.8EncoreBackendFrameworkCloudTypeScript2 APIs45.5Amazon Cloud MapCloud MapService DiscoveryDNS3 APIs45.3DockerCloudContainersDeveloper ToolsDevOps1 API44.6Apollo ConfigApache 2.0Configuration ManagementCtripDistributed Systems1 API44.4PurplebricksReal EstateUnited KingdomProperty ListingsOnline Estate Agency18 APIs43.3gRPCCNCFHTTP/2Protocol Buffers1 API42.6Spring WebFluxJavaNon-Blocking IOReactive Programming8 APIs42.2OpsLevelDeveloper PortalDeveloper ToolsDevOpsExperience1 API40.7Spring FrameworkSpring FrameworkArtificial IntelligenceCloud-NativeEnterprise3 APIs40.0
Thin 35 Limited public surface area
NATSNATSCloud-NativeIoTMessage Broker2 APIs38.3Google Cloud Service MeshGoogle CloudIstioKubernetes13 APIs37.0JaegerDistributed TracingMonitoringObservability1 API35.5Service FabricDistributed SystemsContainersCloud-Native1 API35.4IstioIstioCNCFKubernetes3 APIs34.9Express GatewayAPI CompositionAPI GatewayBFFOpen Source1 API34.2Ambient MeshService MeshIstioKubernetesZero Trust1 API33.8Ocelot.NETAPI GatewayOpen Source1 API33.5Axon FrameworkCQRSEvent SourcingEvent-DrivenJava1 API33.1Conductor OSSAI AgentsDurable ExecutionEvent-Driven1 API32.7Spring Cloud StreamApache KafkaAsyncAPIEvent-DrivenJava3 APIs30.0MoleculerFault ToleranceFrameworkJavaScriptLoad Balancing1 API29.6devprimeCompanyArtificial IntelligencePlatformBackend29.0SpinCloud-NativeServerlessWebAssembly5 APIs28.7KratosCloud-NativeFrameworkGogRPC1 API27.9Orkes1 API27.9QuarkusCloud-NativeFrameworkGraalVMJava1 API27.3Open LibertyApplication ServerCloud-NativeIBMJakarta EE1 API27.1Service MeshService MeshCloud-NativeKubernetes5 APIs27.0DaprDaprDistributed SystemsPlatform13 APIs39.1Spring Cloud ConfigConfiguration ManagementDistributed SystemsExternalized ConfigurationVersion Control1 API38.1ZipkinDistributed TracingObservabilityOpen Source1 API37.5RestateDurable ExecutionWorkflowsOrchestration1 API36.4Apache ZipkinDistributed TracingMonitoringObservability1 API35.7The GuildAPI CompositionAPI GatewayAPI ObservabilityBreaking Changes10 APIs35.3DiagridCompanyDeveloper ToolsAI AgentsDurable Execution35.0BeamableGame BackendLiveOpsPlayer AccountsVirtual Currency4 APIs34.5Spring BootSpring BootAuto-ConfigurationEmbedded ServerFramework1 API34.1Spring Cloud GatewayAPI GatewayCircuit BreakerLoad Balancing1 API34.0Vert.xEvent-DrivenFrameworkJavaJVM7 APIs31.9AkkaActor ModelDistributed SystemsFrameworkJava1 API31.4NacosAlibabaCloud-NativeConfiguration ManagementDNS1 API28.4Grafana TempoDistributed TracingGrafanaObservability6 APIs28.1SnapserCompanyGame DevelopmentBackend-as-a-ServiceGame Backend27.0LightstepAPMDistributed TracingMonitoring1 API26.3
Emerging 25 Early or largely undocumented
Alibaba SentinelAlibabaCircuit BreakerFlow ControlJava1 API23.4HelidonCloud-NativeFrameworkJavaMicroProfile1 API22.9KitexFrameworkGoHigh Performance1 API21.7Netflix ConductorEvent-DrivenNetflixOpen Source1 API19.9EventuateCQRSDistributed DataEvent SourcingEvent-Driven1 API19.8TelepresenceCNCFDeveloper ToolsKubernetesLocal Development18.9SenecaFrameworkJavaScriptMessage Handling1 API17.1NamekoAMQPDependency InjectionFramework1 API16.8Go KitDistributed SystemsDomain-Driven DesignFrameworkGo1 API13.6Go MicroDistributed SystemsFrameworkGo1 API11.0JBossApplication ServerCloud-NativeEnterpriseJakarta EE5 APIs26.0NestJSFrameworkGraphQLNode.js1 API24.1Spring Boot Admin ConsoleActuatorsAdministrationJava1 API23.9GraftcodeCompanyDeveloper ToolsIntegrationCross-Language1 API23.7DropwizardAPI DevelopmentFrameworkJava1 API22.7MicronautCloud-NativeFrameworkJavaJVM1 API22.0Open Service MeshCloud-NativeEnvoyKubernetes1 API21.5Netflix EurekaCloud-NativeFailoverJavaLoad Balancing1 API20.7Resilience4jBulkheadCircuit BreakerFault ToleranceJava1 API20.7SOASOAService-Oriented ArchitectureEnterprise IntegrationWeb Services1 API20.4LittleHorse1 API17.9Netflix HystrixCircuit BreakerFault ToleranceJavaLatency1 API16.0Lura ProjectAPI GatewayGoLinux Foundation2 APIs15.5RESTful ServicesArchitectureHTTPREST5 APIs15.4Polly.NETC#Circuit BreakerFault Tolerance1 API14.5
Minimal 15 Almost no public developer surface
AmplicationCompanyBackendCode GenerationDeveloper Tools9.6Gin1 API8.5Fiber1 API8.1Micro-Service Architecture PatternsArchitectureDesign PatternsDistributed Systems4.0effxCompanyDeveloper ToolsService Catalog3.0Services PatternsArchitectureDesign PatternsService-Oriented Architecture2.3MicroservicesDistributed SystemsEvent-DrivenResilience1.7Microservices ArchitectureArchitectureCloud-NativeDistributed Systems1.7Microservices Design PatternsArchitectureDesign PatternsDistributed Systems1.7LagomAkkaEvent SourcingFrameworkJava1 API10.6Mia-PlatformCloud-NativeDeveloper PlatformDevOps1 API7.9Integration PatternsAsynchronous MessagingChoreographyDesign PatternsEAI4.0MicroCompanyOpen SourceGo3.8Microservice ArchitectureArchitectureCloud-NativeDistributed Systems2.6Microservice DesignDesign PatternsDistributed SystemsService-Oriented Architecture2.6

APIs with this tag (30)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Strong 4 Solid coverage with minor gaps
.NET AspireCloud-ready stack for building observable, production-ready distributed applications in .NET with built-in ...66.1Fortify Microservices APIManage microservices within applications57.4Amazon ECS Service Connect APIAmazon ECS Service Connect provides management of service-to-service communication as Amazon ECS configurat...57.1Axway API BuilderAxway API Builder is a low-code tool for building and deploying microservices and APIs from data sources an...54.6
Developing 3 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Apollo FederationApollo Federation enables declarative composition of multiple APIs into a single federated GraphQL API. It ...49.0Spring WebFlux RSocketIntegration with RSocket binary protocol for reactive, message-driven communication between microservices. ...42.2Temenos Transact Microservices APIsAPIs for Temenos Transact microservices including callback registry, configuration management, user entitle...40.9
Thin 7 Limited public surface area
Service Fabric SDKService Fabric SDK provides client libraries for .NET, Java, and Go for building Service Fabric services an...35.4Ocelot API GatewayOcelot is an open-source .NET API Gateway that provides routing, authentication, authorization, rate limiti...33.5AGL VSOMEIP Service APIAGL uses SOME/IP (Scalable service-Oriented MiddlewarE over IP) via the vSomeIP library for vehicle service...31.8CDAP Microservices APIThe CDAP HTTP RESTful API, documented as "Microservices". All endpoints sit under a /v3 path prefix on a se...31.2Spring Cloud Stream Core APICore programmatic API for building message-driven microservice applications. Provides functional programmin...30.0MoleculerMoleculer is a fast, modern, and powerful microservices framework for Node.js. It provides built-in service...29.6KratosKratos is a Go framework for building cloud-native microservices, originally created at Bilibili. It provid...27.9
Emerging 13 Early or largely undocumented
JBoss Fuse REST DSLREST DSL for Apache Camel integration in JBoss Fuse, enabling definition of REST endpoints and routes for e...26.0NestJSNestJS is a progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, reliable, and scalable server-side applic...24.1KitexKitex is a high-performance, extensible RPC framework for building microservices in Go, developed by ByteDa...21.7Resilience4jResilience4j is a lightweight fault tolerance library for Java 17+ using functional programming patterns. I...20.7Sony gobreaker Circuit Breakergobreaker is a Go implementation of the Circuit Breaker pattern, widely used in microservice resilience des...17.4SenecaSeneca is a microservices toolkit for Node.js that uses a pattern-matching approach to message handling. It...17.1NamekoNameko is a microservices framework for Python that provides tools for building, testing, and running servi...16.8Netflix HystrixNetflix Hystrix is a latency and fault tolerance library designed to isolate points of access to remote sys...16.0PollyPolly is a .NET resilience and transient-fault-handling library that allows developers to express resilienc...14.5Netflix ZuulNetflix Zuul is a gateway service that provides dynamic routing, monitoring, resiliency, and security.14.3Go KitGo Kit is a programming toolkit for building microservices in Go, emphasizing domain-driven design, transpo...13.6Coca-Cola Internal API PlatformInternal API platform built on MuleSoft Anypoint that exposes reusable experience, process, and system APIs...13.0Go MicroGo Micro is a distributed systems framework for building microservices in Go, providing service discovery, ...11.0
Minimal 3 Almost no public developer surface
LagomLagom is an open source framework for building reactive microservice systems in Java and Scala, built on to...10.6GinGin is a high-performance HTTP web framework for Go that provides a fast and productive way to build micros...8.5FiberFiber is an Express-inspired web framework for Go built on Fasthttp for building fast and scalable microser...8.1

Companies reaching this through an API (11)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Microservices” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Amazon ECS Apollo GraphQL Automotive Grade Linux Axway Cask Fortify Microsoft .NET Netflix Zuul Sony Temenos Transact The Coca-Cola Company

Score breakdown

Frequency
57.2
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
2.4
spread across providers
Quality lift
32.0
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
10.7
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Distributed Systems 21 co-occurrences Framework 21 co-occurrences Java 24 co-occurrences Cloud-Native 23 co-occurrences Service Discovery 11 co-occurrences Service Mesh 10 co-occurrences Distributed Tracing 8 co-occurrences Spring Boot 6 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag105
Api tag30
Openapi tag1
Openapi op tag2

Markets provisional

Kin Score markets whose measured providers carry this tag. Share is the fraction of the market's measured providers that carry it — it describes the market, not this tag.

MarketShare of the market's providers
Cloud Native (Kubernetes, CNCF, FinOps)20%

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 98 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Microservices, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
98
of 105 in the catalog
Mean Kin Score
32.5
+10.3 vs catalog 22.2
Mean Agent Readiness
16.6
+4.6 vs catalog 12
Spread
1.7–80.4
median 32.9 · σ 15.1
How the 98 split by band
Exemplar 2Strong 8Developing 20Thin 35Emerging 25Minimal 8
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Contract Quality 36 17.2 +18.8 98
Operational Transparency 28.4 13 +15.4 98
Developer Ergonomics 33.6 23.2 +10.4 98
Contract Governance 14.3 6.5 +7.8 98
Discoverability 59.7 57.9 +1.8 98
Access Clarity 21.1 23.9 -2.8 98

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 12% 13% -1
MCP server (first-party) 9% 12% -3
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 6% 11% -5
Security 92% 98% -6
Arazzo workflows 7% 2% +5
Governance rules 67% 16% +51

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Datadog APM 80.4
  2. 2 Apigee 66.9
  3. 3 Azure Container Apps 61.2
  4. 4 NVIDIA NIM 60.6
  5. 5 IBM WebSphere 58.4
  6. 6 FOLIO 57.6
  7. 7 Amazon SQS 57.2
  8. 8 AWS App Runner 55.6
  9. 9 Signadot 55.6
  10. 10 AWS App Mesh 55
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Datadog APM 55
  2. 2 Grafana Tempo 49.5
  3. 3 Encore 47.9
  4. 4 AWS App Mesh 36.5
  5. 5 FOLIO 35.8
  6. 6 OpsLevel 35.2
  7. 7 Restate 32.1
  8. 8 Amazon SQS 31.1
  9. 9 Juniper Mist AI 30.6
  10. 10 Apigee 30.2
All 105 members of this roster resolve to a provider in the catalog; 98 carry a score (93%). The figures above describe the scored members only.
Coverage caveat. 63 of 98 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of 24 October 2026, across 31984 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

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Tools for tags

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  • find_tagsBrowse and filter every tag in the catalog.
  • get_cohortThis tag as a scored cohort — every provider carrying it, with scores.
  • cohort_statsPRO — the distribution across this tag: mean, median, band split, adoption rates.
  • cohort_rankingsPRO — the leaderboard, on composite AND agent-readiness axes.
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
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