# fagongzi/manba

HTTP API Gateway

Repository: https://github.com/fagongzi/manba
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/manba
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: api-gateway, gateway, microservice, proxy, traffic-control, backend-apis, circuit-breaker, api, etcd, go, golang
Last push: 2023-07-12T07:59:34+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3782, "days_push": 1148, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3313, forks 748 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:56.038323+00:00)

## What it is
Manba is a RESTful HTTP API gateway written in Go that serves as a unified API access layer for microservices. It provides traffic control, circuit breaking, load balancing, service discovery, JWT authorization, and plugin-based extensibility, managed via a gRPC/RESTful apiserver with a web UI.

## Use cases
- unified API gateway in front of microservices
- rate limiting and traffic control for backend APIs
- circuit breaking and failover for upstream services
- JWT-based authentication for APIs
- aggregating multiple backend APIs into one endpoint
- black/white list access control on APIs
- exporting API metrics to Prometheus

## When to choose
- you need a self-hosted Go API gateway with traffic control and circuit breaking
- you want JWT auth, caching, and API aggregation built into one gateway
- you prefer etcd-backed configuration with a web UI and gRPC management API

## When to avoid
- you need a gateway with a large active community and frequent releases
- you require extensive third-party plugin ecosystems like Kong or APISIX
- your stack is not Go/etcd friendly

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: maintenance
- function: api-gateway, proxy, routing, rate-limiting, auth, middleware, http-server, load-testing
- domain: apis, microservices, backend, web-development, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted, go
- tags: api-gateway, circuit-breaker, service-discovery, jwt, traffic-control, etcd, api-aggregation, websocket, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- fagongzi/manba (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:56.038323+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:42:22.535951+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/fagongzi/manba (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:56.038323+00:00, sha be8e2d64587e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.