Envoy

Open SourceFunded

Open source high-performance proxy for cloud-native applications

About Envoy

Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy designed to address the networking and observability challenges inherent in distributed microservice architectures. Originally developed at Lyft, Envoy provides a high-performance, platform-agnostic communication bus that runs alongside applications, enabling consistent traffic management and observability across complex service meshes. It supports advanced load balancing, HTTP/2 and gRPC protocols, and offers APIs for dynamic configuration management.

Targeted primarily at enterprises adopting cloud-native and microservices architectures, Envoy enhances operational visibility and resilience by providing deep observability into Layer 7 traffic and native support for distributed tracing. Its architecture allows organizations to centralize network features and performance tuning, simplifying the management of distributed services and improving overall system reliability.

Key Capabilities

✓High-performance edge and service proxy
✓Advanced load balancing with retries and circuit breaking
✓Native support for HTTP/2 and gRPC protocols
✓Dynamic configuration via robust APIs
✓Deep observability and distributed tracing

Integrations

MongoDBDynamoDBDistributed tracing systems

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