aid: alibaba-sentinel
name: Alibaba Sentinel
description: >-
  Alibaba Sentinel is a powerful open source flow control component enabling
  reliability, resilience, and monitoring for microservices. Originally
  developed by Alibaba and used in production at Alibaba for over 10 years,
  Sentinel provides flow control, traffic shaping, concurrency limiting, circuit
  breaking, and system adaptive overload protection. The project is written
  primarily in Java with a Go implementation (sentinel-golang) also available.
  Sentinel integrates with major frameworks including Spring Cloud, Dubbo,
  gRPC, Apache RocketMQ, and Servlet. It provides a real-time monitoring
  dashboard for visualizing metrics and configuring rules dynamically. The
  project is hosted on GitHub under the Alibaba organization and is widely
  adopted in cloud-native microservice architectures.
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - Alibaba
  - Circuit Breaker
  - Flow Control
  - Java
  - Microservices
  - Rate Limiting
  - Resilience
  - Traffic Shaping
  - Open Source
  - Cloud Native
  - Spring Cloud
url: >-
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/alibaba-sentinel/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-26'
modified: '2026-06-20'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: alibaba-sentinel:sentinel-dashboard-api
    name: Sentinel Dashboard API
    description: >-
      The Sentinel Dashboard API provides a REST interface for the Sentinel
      dashboard application, which allows real-time monitoring of clients and
      dynamic configuration of flow control, circuit breaking, and system
      protection rules. The dashboard supports cluster aggregation of runtime
      info for up to 500 nodes and enables operators to manage resources and
      rules without application restarts.
    humanURL: https://sentinelguard.io/en-us/docs/dashboard.html
    baseURL: https://localhost:8080
    tags:
      - Dashboard
      - Monitoring
      - Flow Control
      - Circuit Breaker
      - Rate Limiting
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://sentinelguard.io/en-us/docs/dashboard.html
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: >-
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/alibaba-sentinel/refs/heads/main/openapi/sentinel-dashboard-api.yml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: >-
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/alibaba-sentinel/refs/heads/main/json-schema/flow-rule.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: >-
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/alibaba-sentinel/refs/heads/main/json-schema/degrade-rule.json
      - type: MCPServer
        url: mcp/alibaba-sentinel-mcp.yml
      - type: Overlay
        url: overlays/alibaba-sentinel-sentinel-dashboard-api-overlay.yaml
      - type: Conformance
        url: conformance/alibaba-sentinel-conformance.yml
      - type: ErrorCatalog
        url: errors/alibaba-sentinel-problem-types.yml
      - type: Lifecycle
        url: lifecycle/alibaba-sentinel-lifecycle.yml
common:
  - type: DomainSecurity
    url: security/alibaba-sentinel-domain-security.yml
  - type: Packages
    url: packages/alibaba-sentinel-packages.yml
  - type: WellKnown
    url: well-known/alibaba-sentinel-well-known.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/alibaba-sentinel-llms.txt
  - type: Website
    url: https://sentinelguard.io/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://sentinelguard.io/en-us/docs/introduction.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://github.com/alibaba/Sentinel/wiki/How-to-Use
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/alibaba/Sentinel
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/alibaba/sentinel-golang
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/alibaba
  - type: Wiki
    url: https://github.com/alibaba/Sentinel/wiki
  - type: Issues
    url: https://github.com/alibaba/Sentinel/issues
  - type: Releases
    url: https://github.com/alibaba/Sentinel/releases
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com