Lunar enables engineering teams to manage third-party API consumption in production environments, reducing costs, optimizing performance, and building resilience. With Lunar, gain complete visibility and control over external APIs used in internal production use cases. Designed for high volume of outbound traffic, Lunar ensures operational availability for any infrastructure.

Main features

1. Visibility

• Gain full visibility and improved metrics across all third-party API calls across environments and services. Integrates with monitoring tools like Data Dog and Prometheus.
• Control

• Orchestration layer to optimize API calls in distributed environments. Enforce rate limiting, quota management, concurrency control, and caching with predefined flows.
• Ladder

• Runs on top of your infrastructure, ready for high volumes. Reduces production errors and minimizes maintenance time, maximizing the value of your current API integrations.
• Proactive management

• Gain proactive control over API consumption. Even with rate limiting or caching fixes, Lunar provides visibility into API usage across the entire organization.
• Advanced flows

• Use predefined policy flows to solve complex consumer issues, including workload management, caching, quota management, and concurrency control.

Use cases

1. Large companies managing multiple APIs:

• Centralize management of third-party APIs with comprehensive inventory, monitor volume, performance metrics and error rates.
• Developers in high-traffic environments:

• Ensure stability and flexibility during traffic growth, peaks, and production surprises with Lunar’s scalable and resilient architecture.
• Teams with distributed services:

• Manage distributed traffic and shared state with Lunar’s multiple Consumption Gateway installations and Redis integration.

Conclusion

Lunar.dev offers a complete solution to manage the consumption of third-party APIs. By providing complete visibility, control, and scalability, Lunar helps engineering teams reduce costs, optimize performance, and build resilience. Whether you are a large enterprise or a developer in a high-traffic environment, Lunar.dev is designed to meet your API management needs.