Envoy
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy observed · 2026-10-18
Health v2 · maintenance only
95/100
- Activity 100
- Release rhythm 87
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 0.0
- age_days: 3725
- days_rel: 7
- days_push: 3
- n_releases_24m: 111
Adoption not part of the score
29082 stars · 5663 forks observed · 2026-10-18
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-10-05, confidence 0.99
Envoy is an open‑source, high‑performance edge and service proxy written in C++. It provides dynamic routing, load‑balancing, TLS termination and extensive observability for cloud‑native applications.
Use cases
- route traffic between microservices in a service mesh
- load‑balance HTTP/HTTPS requests across multiple backends
- terminate TLS and perform mutual TLS authentication at the edge
- apply authentication, authorization and rate‑limiting before requests reach services
- collect L7 metrics, logs and distributed traces for all inbound and outbound traffic
- proxy AI model inference traffic with streaming‑first protocols
- extend proxy behavior with custom Wasm, Lua, Go or Rust filters
When to choose
- You need a production‑grade, cloud‑native proxy with dynamic configuration via xDS APIs.
- Your architecture relies on microservices, service meshes, or API gateways and requires high performance and observability.
- You want to add custom logic to the data path without forking the proxy, using Wasm or other extensions.
- You need built‑in TLS termination, mTLS, and advanced security features like JWT authentication and RBAC.
When to avoid
- Your workload is a simple static website that does not need advanced L7 routing or observability.
- You have very limited resources and cannot allocate the memory/CPU overhead of a full‑featured proxy.
- You require a lightweight reverse proxy with minimal configuration and no need for dynamic control plane integration.
Facets
service · maturity active
http-server routing api-gateway security logging tracing middleware networking microservices cloud-computing windows cloud self-hosted edge-proxy service-mesh ai-native wasm-extensions high-performance devops linux macos docker kubernetes
6 sources
- readme: https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy · fetched 2026-10-18 · c2fa9adb17c1
- homepage: https://www.envoyproxy.io · fetched 2026-09-21 · bc460735704f
- site_page: https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs · fetched 2026-09-21 · a17f4736d779
- site_page: https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/start/start · fetched 2026-09-21 · e20962e3e283
- site_page: https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/v1.39.1/version_history/current · fetched 2026-09-21 · 7b0381e4440b
- site_page: https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/start/install · fetched 2026-09-21 · 98b9d39c88a4
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| envoyproxy/envoy | main | 95 |
| envoyproxy/data-plane-api | mirror | 77 |
| envoyproxy/envoy-filter-example | examples | 36 |
| envoyproxy/envoy-wasm | mirror | 10 |
| envoyproxy/examples | examples | 90 |
| envoyproxy/envoy-openssl | mirror | 77 |
For agents
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