motiv-labs/janus
An API Gateway written in Go observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
23/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3705
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 786
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2840 stars · 324 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Janus is a lightweight, open-source API Gateway and management platform written in Go, distributed as a single binary. It handles authorization, access control, rate limiting, and analytics for APIs, with hot-reloading configuration and OpenTracing support.
Use cases
- manage access control and rate limiting for my microservices apis
- self-host an open-source api gateway in go
- add authentication and api keys in front of my backend services
- proxy and route requests to multiple upstream services
- monitor api usage and analytics without building my own middleware
- get circuit breaker and retry logic for upstream services
When to choose
- you want a lightweight, single-binary gateway with no dependency hell
- you need programmatic REST API control over gateway configuration
- you want hot-reloading config and graceful shutdown out of the box
- you prefer a simple open-source alternative to Kong or Tyk
When to avoid
- you need a large plugin ecosystem or extensive enterprise features
- you require active, frequent maintenance - releases have slowed
- you need deep cloud-native integrations beyond OpenTracing
- your stack is not comfortable operating a Go-based self-hosted component
Facets
service · maturity maintenance
api-gateway proxy middleware rate-limiting auth tracing http-server apis microservices backend developer-tools self-hosted windows go cross-platform reverse-proxy api-management single-binary hot-reload circuit-breaker opentracing linux macos docker
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/motiv-labs/janus · fetched 2026-08-28 · f609c8a13eee
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| motiv-labs/janus | main | 23 |
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