Bloodhound
Take API Debugging to the Next Level
New tools are making it easier than ever to deliver APIs at scale, but increased speed means a significant rise in API bugs and dangerous vulnerabilities. That’s why the team at API Fortress built Bloodhound, a lightweight and easy-to-use API debugging gateway. Bloodhound allows developers and architects to debug and transform live API conversations, so they can comprehensively test APIs.
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Deploy Bloodhound locally or in the cloud using a container (Docker/K8s).
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Configure Bloodhound for your use case. This can include sending API calls to the API Fortress logger or another centralized log manager such as Elastic or Splunk.
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Route API calls through the Bloodhound microgateway for logging and tracking.
Bloodhound Is Good with People
No external dependencies
Deploys locally, in the cloud, or a datacenter
Easy and flexible API transformation pipelines
Plugins can be built in minutes using Java, Scala, or Groovy
Use Cases
The Bloodhound microgateway was built from the ground up to optimize the process of discovering, capturing, transforming, and diagnosing problems with APIs and microservices. With Bloodhound, capture and track API calls as they go through your system.
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Help Make Sense of the Noise
Capture live API conversations and forward to other platforms for analysis. Save logs locally, or send to services including API Fortress, Elastic, Splunk, httpbin, RequestBin, and more.
Understand what is happening under the hood of your mobile apps and services. Often, you are handed a project with a lot going on, but no clear instructions or documentation on how it all works. Bloodhound lets you see all the interdependencies in the complex call array behind every click.
Act as an echo server for development and QA teams.
Know what the request looks like from an API server point of view. Often, issues aren’t necessarily revealed during the send or receive, but something in between may cause an unexpected result.
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Test APIs Beyond a Normal Functional Test
Introduce various scenarios for APIs to see how they function under unique circumstances – such as throttling, broken or unexpected headers, invalid payloads, and status code changes, etc.
While functional tests are vital, they don’t tell the entire story. With Bloodhound, you can extend what is possible to be tested by transforming the API into unique scenarios.
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Improve Internal Control of APIs
Easily add simple authorization layers to unsecured APIs.
This transformation of an API is particularly popular when exposing APIs to third parties or contractors.
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API Security – Live Contract Validation
Compare Swagger and OpenAPI specs to live API transactions to detect potentially dangerous anomalies.
This unique Bloodhound feature allows you to conduct what is akin to “live contract testing.” Choose to allow or disallow calls that do not conform to expectations. You can also use Bloodhound to log calls that are outside expectations based on the contract. Add an extra security measure for your most vulnerable APIs.
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Transform Databases to APIs
Convert databases or CSVs to APIs that are easily readable.
Easily solve the problem of creating data-driven functional tests when the test data is locked in a database. There’s no need to build a webservice from scratch. Use this feature with any JDBC database including PostGres, MySql, MS SQL Server. It also works with MongoDB and Redis.
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Extra Bloodhound Benefits for API Fortress Users
While the agnostic Bloodhound microgateway can connect with any logger or testing platform, Bloodhound offers several unique benefits when used with the API Fortress platform including:
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