orlabs/orange
OpenResty/Nginx Gateway for API Monitoring and Management. 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: 3819
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1104
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2308 stars · 570 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Orange is an API gateway built on OpenResty (Nginx + Lua) that provides API monitoring, management, and traffic control through a plugin-based architecture. It ships with a web dashboard and an API server for configuring gateway plugins such as authentication, rate limiting, and routing.
Use cases
- manage and monitor apis behind nginx
- self-hosted api gateway with dashboard
- rate limit and authenticate api traffic
- dynamic routing for microservices
- openresty-based reverse proxy with plugins
When to choose
- you already run OpenResty/Nginx and want gateway features without leaving that stack
- you need a lightweight, self-hosted gateway with a web dashboard
- you want Lua-extensible plugins for traffic control
When to avoid
- you need a gateway with a large active community and frequent releases (consider Kong or APISIX)
- you develop on macOS, which is not supported
- you want a dependency-free gateway - Orange requires MySQL and luarocks setup
Facets
service · maturity maintenance
api-gateway proxy monitoring http-server middleware rate-limiting auth apis web-development backend monitoring microservices lua self-hosted openresty nginx api-gateway dashboard ngx-lua traffic-management devops linux
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/orlabs/orange · fetched 2026-08-28 · 0bb2afe3ccf5
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| orlabs/orange | main | 23 |
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