aid: governance name: API Governance description: >- API Governance is the practice of defining and enforcing the policies, standards, and processes that guide how APIs are designed, built, secured, versioned, and retired across an organization. This topic indexes the providers, tools, and open-source linters that operationalize spec governance, design governance, security governance, and lifecycle governance for the API estate. type: Index image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg tags: - Governance - Policies - Rules - Spectral - Linting - Lifecycle - Compliance - Standards - OpenAPI - AsyncAPI url: >- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/governance/refs/heads/main/apis.yml created: '2026-05-22' modified: '2026-05-22' specificationVersion: '0.19' apis: - aid: governance:apiwiz name: Apiwiz API Governance description: >- Federated API management platform with automated linting, build templates, policy enforcement, and multi-gateway governance for the full API lifecycle. humanURL: https://www.apiwiz.io/ tags: - Governance - Lifecycle - Multi-Gateway - Spectral properties: - type: DeveloperPortal url: https://www.apiwiz.io/ - type: Documentation url: https://docs.apiwiz.io/ - aid: governance:treblle name: Treblle API Intelligence and Governance description: >- API observability and governance platform that scores, monitors, and audits production APIs in real time, surfacing design and security issues against OpenAPI specifications. humanURL: https://treblle.com/ tags: - Observability - Governance - Runtime - Scoring properties: - type: DeveloperPortal url: https://treblle.com/ - type: Documentation url: https://docs.treblle.com/ - aid: governance:42crunch name: 42Crunch API Security Platform description: >- Security-first API governance platform that audits OpenAPI contracts, runs 300+ conformance and security checks, performs automated fuzzing, and enforces policies from design through runtime. humanURL: https://42crunch.com/ tags: - Security - OWASP - Conformance - Governance properties: - type: DeveloperPortal url: https://42crunch.com/ - type: Documentation url: https://docs.42crunch.com/ - aid: governance:apicontext name: APIContext (formerly Apimetrics) description: >- API monitoring and governance service measuring availability, performance, and conformance of production APIs from distributed locations for SLA and regulatory reporting. humanURL: https://apicontext.com/ tags: - Monitoring - Availability - Performance - Governance - aid: governance:sensedia name: Sensedia SMART API Governance description: >- AI-powered federated governance platform delivering centralized visibility, contract validation, shadow API detection, and lifecycle policy enforcement across multi-cloud and multi-gateway estates. humanURL: https://www.sensedia.com/ tags: - Federated Governance - Multi-Gateway - Shadow APIs - Lifecycle properties: - type: DeveloperPortal url: https://www.sensedia.com/ - aid: governance:postman-api-governance name: Postman API Governance description: >- Governance product inside the Postman API platform combining a pre-built rule library, custom Spectral-compatible rules, CLI/CI enforcement, and a reporting dashboard for the API estate. humanURL: https://www.postman.com/api-platform/api-governance/ tags: - Spectral - Postman - CI - Dashboard properties: - type: DeveloperPortal url: https://www.postman.com/api-platform/api-governance/ - type: Documentation url: https://learning.postman.com/docs/api-governance/api-governance-overview/ - aid: governance:stoplight-spaces name: Stoplight Spaces and Style Guides description: >- API design platform with built-in style guides, custom Spectral rulesets, and workspace-level governance, now offered as part of SmartBear's API Hub. humanURL: https://stoplight.io/api-governance tags: - Spectral - Style Guides - Design - SmartBear properties: - type: DeveloperPortal url: https://stoplight.io/ - aid: governance:spectral name: Spectral description: >- Open-source JSON/YAML linter and style-guide enforcer for OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and JSON Schema — the de facto standard rule engine behind most API governance products. humanURL: https://stoplight.io/open-source/spectral tags: - Open Source - Linter - OpenAPI - AsyncAPI properties: - type: GitHubRepository url: https://github.com/stoplightio/spectral - type: Documentation url: https://docs.stoplight.io/docs/spectral/ - aid: governance:vacuum name: Vacuum description: >- Open-source, Go-based OpenAPI linter that is 100% compatible with Spectral rulesets, supports OpenAPI 2 through 3.2, ships custom Go and JavaScript functions, and adds auto-fix and change-detection. humanURL: https://quobix.com/vacuum/ tags: - Open Source - Linter - OpenAPI - Performance properties: - type: GitHubRepository url: https://github.com/daveshanley/vacuum - aid: governance:redocly-reunite name: Redocly Reunite description: >- Redocly's collaborative governance and documentation workspace with Git-backed previews, audit trails, and review workflows that wrap Redocly's OpenAPI linting and bundling toolchain. humanURL: https://redocly.com/reunite tags: - Documentation - Review Workflows - Git - Linting properties: - type: DeveloperPortal url: https://redocly.com/ - aid: governance:optic name: Optic description: >- Open-source and hosted tool that captures real API traffic, diffs it against the OpenAPI contract, and turns every change into a reviewable pull request with breaking-change detection. humanURL: https://www.useoptic.com/ tags: - Diffing - Breaking Changes - CI - Traffic Capture properties: - type: GitHubRepository url: https://github.com/opticdev/optic - aid: governance:speakeasy-lint name: Speakeasy Linter description: >- OpenAPI linter shipped with the Speakeasy SDK generation platform offering 90+ rules across six categories — SDK generation, spec correctness, best practices, security, schema validation, and Speakeasy-specific checks. humanURL: https://www.speakeasy.com/docs/linting tags: - SDK Generation - Linter - OpenAPI - Rulesets properties: - type: Documentation url: https://www.speakeasy.com/docs/linting - type: GitHubRepository url: https://github.com/speakeasy-api/openapi - aid: governance:apicurio-registry name: Apicurio Registry description: >- Open-source runtime registry that stores OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, Avro, Protobuf, JSON Schema, WSDL, and XSD artifacts and enforces validity, compatibility, and integrity rules across their lifecycle. humanURL: https://www.apicur.io/registry/ tags: - Registry - Schema - Compatibility - Open Source properties: - type: GitHubRepository url: https://github.com/Apicurio/apicurio-registry - aid: governance:reprezen name: RepreZen API Studio description: >- Historical commercial OpenAPI/RAPID-ML modeling IDE that drove contract-first API governance; the product line has been retired and the domain reprezen.com is no longer maintained. humanURL: https://github.com/RepreZen tags: - Historical - OpenAPI - Modeling - Retired properties: - type: GitHubRepository url: https://github.com/RepreZen - aid: governance:bump-sh name: Bump.sh description: >- API documentation hub for OpenAPI and AsyncAPI with automatic changelog generation, breaking-change detection, and contract-level policy enforcement that feeds into governance workflows. humanURL: https://bump.sh/ tags: - Documentation - Changelog - Breaking Changes - AsyncAPI properties: - type: DeveloperPortal url: https://bump.sh/ - type: Documentation url: https://docs.bump.sh/ - aid: governance:program name: API Governance Program description: >- Rules, vocabulary, JSON Schema, JSON-LD, and example records for an organizational API governance program covering spec, design, security, and lifecycle governance across the API estate. tags: - Governance - Policies - Rules - Lifecycle properties: - type: JSONSchema url: >- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/governance/main/json-schema/governance-rule-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: >- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/governance/main/json-schema/governance-policy-schema.json - type: JSONLD url: >- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/governance/main/json-ld/governance-context.jsonld - type: Vocabulary url: >- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/governance/main/vocabulary/governance-vocabulary.yml common: - type: Reference url: https://stoplight.io/open-source/spectral - type: Reference url: https://github.com/daveshanley/vacuum - type: Reference url: https://www.postman.com/api-platform/api-governance/ - type: Reference url: https://owasp.org/www-project-api-security/ - type: Reference url: https://developer.apievangelist.com/feeds/policies/ - type: Reference url: https://developer.apievangelist.com/feeds/rules/ - type: GitHubOrganization url: https://github.com/api-evangelist - type: DeveloperPortal url: https://developer.apievangelist.com/ maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com X-github: kinlane