Users & Tenants
Evaluate behavior from human API consumers, authenticated clients, partners, and tenants.
Runtime API Governance
Runtime API Governance governs API consumer behavior after access is granted.
Runtime API Governance evaluates API consumer activity while production APIs are in use. You define the policies that Proxyble applies as behavior, risk, context, and resource use change.
- Post-Access Governance
- Continuous Evaluation
- Contextual Decisions
- Operator Control
API Consumer Governance
Proxyble evaluates behavior and policy while an API consumer uses production APIs
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Access is granted
An authenticated service begins using production APIs
Identity availableAccess control remains in place -
Behavior changes
Endpoint use and resource impact differ from the API consumer’s prior activity
Context updatedBehavioral history informs evaluation -
Policy is evaluated
Behavior, identity, endpoint, and risk inform the policy decision
Policy decision madeYou define the controls that apply -
Enforce the policy decision
Proxyble applies the configured action while the production API is in use
Decision enforcedEvidence remains available for review
- Timing
- Runtime
- Subject
- API consumer
- Decision
- Contextual
- Control
- Operator-defined
What is Runtime API Governance?
Authentication and authorization decide whether an API consumer can access an API. Request inspection and static limits evaluate individual requests or fixed thresholds. Runtime API Governance continues to evaluate how the API consumer behaves after access is granted, then applies policy as behavior changes.
Users & Tenants
Services
Integrations
Bots & Devices
AI Agents
Anonymous Clients
Point-in-time controls ×Authentication & authorization×Request inspection×Static thresholds Useful controls, but they provide limited behavioral context.
Runtime Governance
Runtime API Governance evaluates what API consumers do while production APIs are in use, not only who they are or whether one request is valid.
What Runtime API Governance governs
Runtime API Governance evaluates API consumers by behavior, context, and resource impact while production APIs are in use.
Who it governs
Services & Integrations
Evaluate internal services, service accounts, partner integrations, and third-party automation.
Bots & Automation
Evaluate scripts, crawlers, automated clients, retries, and unexpected machine behavior.
AI Agents
Evaluate autonomous agents and AI-driven workflows that act as API consumers.
What it evaluates
Behavior over time
Evaluate sequences, repetition, request rate, deviations, abuse, and anomalies as patterns develop.
Resource Impact
Your policy can use endpoint sensitivity, API consumer scope, risk, and resource consumption to inform policy decisions.
How Runtime API Governance works
Proxyble observes API consumer behavior, evaluates the behavioral context against policy, makes a policy decision, and enforces the configured action while production APIs are in use.
1Observe API activity
Proxyble collects available signals from API consumer activity while the production API is in use.
2Evaluate behavioral context
Proxyble evaluates behavior, identity, endpoint, risk, and resource signals against policy.
3Make a policy decision
Your policy determines the action for the API consumer or situation.
4Enforce during API use
Proxyble applies the decision and retains evidence for review and audit.
One runtime layer. Three functions.
Proxyble combines continuous governance, behavioral analysis, and adaptive enforcement in one runtime layer.
Govern
Continuously evaluate API consumer behavior and make policy decisions while production APIs are in use.
Understand
Detect abuse, anomalies, risky behavior, and policy violations across API consumers and services.
Enforce
Apply the response you configure based on behavior, context, and policy.
Works alongside your API stack
Proxyble adds behavioral context and runtime policy enforcement alongside the infrastructure that already handles routing, identity, inspection, and observability.
API Consumers
Human, machine, automated, authenticated, and anonymous
Existing Controls
Lifecycle, routing, identity, inspection, and telemetry
Proxyble
Behavioral context and runtime policy enforcement
Production APIs
Live operation and application resources
- Proxyble adds behavioral context and runtime enforcement alongside your gateway, IAM, WAF/WAAP, observability, and policy infrastructure.
- Proxyble is designed as a lightweight runtime layer that can operate alongside existing gateways, proxies, and applications.
- API Management
- API Gateways
- WAF / WAAP
- IAM / OAuth
- SIEM / Observability
- Policy Infrastructure
Mechanics and evidence
Evaluate how Proxyble observes behavior, makes policy decisions, enforces actions, and records evidence under defined operating conditions.
Architecture
See where behavioral evaluation, policy decisions, and enforcement operate in the API path.
Behavioral inputs
Review the identity, endpoint, time, risk, and resource signals Proxyble uses to build behavioral context.
Policy programmability
Define policy scopes, exceptions, actions, and the logic that controls them.
Operational evidence
Measure outcomes, latency, throughput, and resource impact under defined workloads and configurations.
Frequently asked questions
Runtime API Governance evaluates how API consumers behave while production APIs are in use. Proxyble compares the behavior with policy, makes a policy decision, and enforces the configured action as behavior, risk, and operating conditions change.
Runtime means that governance happens while production APIs are actively being used. Runtime API Governance does not only apply during design, deployment, cataloging, or periodic review.
Proxyble observes API consumer behavior, evaluates identity, endpoint, risk, and resource impact in context, makes a policy decision, and enforces the action that you configure.
No. API lifecycle governance focuses on design, standards, catalogs, change management, and API management. Runtime API Governance focuses on API consumer behavior and policy enforcement while production APIs are in use.
No. Runtime API Governance works alongside API gateways, API management platforms, IAM, WAF or WAAP, observability, SIEM, and other existing infrastructure. Proxyble adds runtime behavioral evaluation and enforcement to those controls.
No. Security is a core use case. Runtime API Governance also supports resource protection, consumer fairness, automation reliability, operational resilience, and policy compliance.
No. Monitoring provides behavioral context. Runtime API Governance also makes policy decisions and applies the enforcement actions that you configure while production APIs are in use.
Depending on the policy and risk, enforcement can include alerting, rate limiting, throttling, slowdown, action restrictions, quarantine, temporary bans, or blocking.
Proxyble can process traffic from which it can extract data, including TCP, UDP, HTTP, JSON, and custom protocols.
Proxyble is designed for real-time enforcement and can analyze up to 1,000,000 operations per second. You can also deploy Proxyble as a sidecar to keep added API-path overhead minimal. Actual performance depends on hardware, workload, enabled features, and deployment configuration.
Govern API behavior
in real time.
See how Proxyble brings Runtime API Governance, Behavioral API Security, and Adaptive Policy Enforcement together in one runtime control layer.