aid: linkerd name: Linkerd description: >- Service mesh without the mess. Linkerd adds security, observability, and reliability to any Kubernetes cluster without the complexity of bloat of other meshes. type: Index position: Consumer access: 3rd-Party image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg tags: - Kubernetes - mTLS - Observability - Security - Service Mesh created: '2025-08-19' modified: '2026-04-28' url: >- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/linkerd/refs/heads/main/apis.yml specificationVersion: '0.19' apis: - aid: linkerd:proxy-admin-api name: Linkerd Proxy Admin API description: >- The Linkerd proxy exposes an admin HTTP server on each meshed pod, providing health check endpoints, readiness probes, Prometheus-compatible metrics, and runtime diagnostic information. By default this server listens on port 4191. image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://linkerd.io/2-edge/reference/proxy-configuration/ baseURL: http://localhost:4191 properties: - type: Documentation url: https://linkerd.io/2-edge/reference/proxy-configuration/ - type: Reference url: https://linkerd.io/2-edge/reference/proxy-metrics/ - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/linkerd-proxy-admin-openapi.yml tags: - Health Check - Metrics - Prometheus - Proxy - aid: linkerd:viz-metrics-api name: Linkerd Viz Metrics API description: >- The Linkerd Viz extension provides a metrics API that powers the linkerd viz CLI commands and the Linkerd dashboard. It queries Prometheus for golden metrics including request volume, success rate, and latency distributions for HTTP, HTTP/2, and gRPC traffic across meshed workloads. image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://linkerd.io/2-edge/reference/cli/viz/ properties: - type: Documentation url: https://linkerd.io/2-edge/reference/cli/viz/ - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/linkerd-viz-metrics-openapi.yml - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/stat-summary.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/edge.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/gateway.json - type: JSONLD url: json-ld/linkerd-context.jsonld tags: - Dashboard - Metrics - Observability - Statistics - aid: linkerd:tap-api name: Linkerd Tap API description: >- The Linkerd Tap API is a Kubernetes aggregated API server that provides real-time streaming access to requests flowing through the Linkerd service mesh. It allows live inspection of HTTP and gRPC traffic including headers, paths, response codes, and latency. Access is controlled via Kubernetes RBAC. image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://linkerd.io/2-edge/reference/cli/viz/ properties: - type: Documentation url: https://linkerd.io/2-edge/reference/cli/viz/ - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/linkerd-tap-openapi.yml - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/tap-event.json - type: JSONLD url: json-ld/linkerd-context.jsonld tags: - Debugging - Real-Time - Tap - Traffic Inspection - aid: linkerd:proxy-control-plane-api name: Linkerd Proxy Control Plane API description: >- The Linkerd Proxy Control Plane gRPC API defines the protobuf service contracts used by the data-plane proxy to communicate with the control plane. It includes the Destination API for service discovery and traffic policy, the Identity API for issuing mTLS certificates, and the Inbound API for per-port authorization and rate-limiting policies. image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2-proxy-api tags: - Control Plane - gRPC - mTLS - Policy properties: - type: Documentation url: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2-proxy-api - type: Reference url: https://linkerd.io/2-edge/reference/authorization-policy/ - type: GitHubRepository url: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2-proxy-api - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/service-profile.json - aid: linkerd:multicluster-api name: Linkerd Multicluster API description: >- The Linkerd Multicluster extension provides Kubernetes CRDs and a gateway component that enables transparent, secure cross-cluster service communication. It uses mTLS to authenticate workloads across cluster boundaries within a unified trust domain, allowing services in different clusters to communicate as if they were local. image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://linkerd.io/2-edge/features/multicluster/ properties: - type: Documentation url: https://linkerd.io/2-edge/features/multicluster/ - type: Reference url: https://linkerd.io/2-edge/reference/multicluster/ tags: - Federation - Kubernetes - mTLS - Multicluster common: - type: JSON-LD url: json-ld/linkerd-context.jsonld - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/service-profile.json - type: Website url: https://linkerd.io/ - type: Documentation url: https://linkerd.io/2.19/reference/ - type: Getting Started url: https://linkerd.io/2.19/getting-started/ - type: GitHub Organization url: https://github.com/linkerd - type: GitHubRepository url: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2 - type: Blog url: https://linkerd.io/blog/ - type: Change Log url: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2/blob/main/CHANGES.md - type: Community url: https://linkerd.io/community/get-involved/ - type: Slack url: https://slack.linkerd.io/ - type: Support url: https://linkerd.buoyant.io/ - type: Releases url: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2/releases - type: Security url: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2/blob/main/SECURITY.md - type: Stack Overflow url: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/linkerd - type: YouTube url: https://www.youtube.com/@Linkerd - type: Privacy Policy url: https://buoyant.io/privacy-policy - type: Terms of Service url: https://buoyant.io/terms-of-service maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com