User guide

Manage resources in the API Gateway console or the Cloud-native API Gateway console.

API Gateway

Category	Feature	Description	References
API management	Create an API	Create APIs from the console, through API operations, or by importing Swagger-compliant data.	Create an API
	Manage APIs	Manage API versions, environments, and models.	Batch Operation APIs View the operation history of an API Version management Manage environments Manage models
	Call APIs and manage API security	Call APIs and manage API authorizations.	Overview
	Monitor APIs	Monitor APIs and operations, and diagnose issues.	API observability
	Use plug-ins	Configure and manage plug-ins.	Overview

Cloud-native API Gateway

Feature set	Feature	Description	References
API Management	API lifecycle management	Manage APIs through design, development, testing, publishing, and unpublishing.	Create a REST API and add operations Manage API versions Publish an API Debug an API online Unpublish an API
	Version management	Maintain coexisting API versions and manage upgrades.	Manage API versions
	Release history management	Record API release information and support rollbacks.	View historical versions
	API policy management	Manage API and operation-level policies: throttling, rewriting, header modification, cross-domain access, authentication, traffic replication, timeout, and retry.	Configure policies and plugins
	Monitoring and diagnostics	Monitor and diagnose APIs and operations.	View monitoring data for REST APIs and operations
Routing management	Route management	Add, modify, delete, publish, and unpublish gateway routes.	Create a route Manage routes
	Monitoring and diagnostics	Monitor and diagnose routes.	View gateway monitoring data
	Routing policy management	Manage route-level policies: WAF protection, throttling, rewriting, header modification, cross-domain access, authentication, traffic replication, timeout, and retry.	Routing policies
Gateway instance management	Instance management	Create, view, and release gateway instances.	Create a gateway instance
	Gateway security policy management	Manage instance-level security policies: blacklists, whitelists, and authentication.	Manage security capabilities
	Monitoring and diagnostics	Monitor gateway instance operations: business monitoring, resource monitoring, log center, tracing analysis, and issue diagnosis.	View gateway monitoring data Enable gateway log delivery Enable gateway Tracing Analysis
	Parameter configuration management	Configure gateway runtime parameters.	Modify gateway parameters
	Security group authorization	Establish network connectivity between the gateway and container clusters via security group rules.	Set security group rules
Source and service management	Container service	Discover and import backend services from ACK or ACK Serverless.	Create a service Manage service sources
	FC	Discover and import backend services from FC.	Create a service Manage service sources
	Nacos	Discover and import backend services from MSE Nacos.	Create a service Manage service sources
	Fixed address/domain name	Specify a fixed IP address or domain name as a backend service.	Create a service Manage service sources
	Service version management	Manage service versions.	Manage service versions
	Service monitoring dashboard	View golden metrics for services.	View gateway monitoring data
	Service policy management	Manage service-level policies: certificate encryption and load balancing.	Manage service traffic rules
Domain name management	Domain name management	Add, delete, modify, and query gateway domain names.	Create a domain name Delete a domain name
Domain name management	Protocol management	Manage service protocols on domain names.	Change the protocol and certificate of a domain name
Security management	Blacklist and whitelist management	Manage IP blacklists and whitelists for gateway access.	Set gateway IP address blacklists and whitelists
Security management	Global authentication	Manage instance-level gateway authentication.	Global authentication