# orlabs/orange

OpenResty/Nginx Gateway for API Monitoring and Management.

Repository: https://github.com/orlabs/orange
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/orange
Homepage: http://orange.sumory.com
Language: Lua
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: gateway, nginx, proxy, ngx-lua, openresty, lor, api, resty, monitoring
Last push: 2023-08-25T07:34:51+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": 3819, "days_push": 1104, "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 2308, forks 570 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:35.874701+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: service
- maturity: maintenance
- function: api-gateway, proxy, monitoring, http-server, middleware, rate-limiting, auth
- domain: apis, web-development, backend, monitoring, microservices
- platform: lua, self-hosted
- tags: openresty, nginx, api-gateway, dashboard, ngx-lua, traffic-management, devops, linux

## Member repositories
- orlabs/orange (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:35.874701+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 2026-08-30T02:39:38.153047+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/orlabs/orange (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:35.874701+00:00, sha 0bb2afe3ccf5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.