Compare the Top Microservices Tools as of April 2025

What are Microservices Tools?

Microservices tools and frameworks are comprehensive platforms and libraries that assist in the development and management of microservices-based applications. These tools and frameworks offer essential features such as service discovery, fault tolerance, load balancing, and API management to streamline the design of microservices architectures. They support developers in creating services that are decoupled, independently deployable, and scalable. Additionally, these frameworks often come with built-in support for integrating with container orchestration systems like Kubernetes and Docker. By using these tools and frameworks, teams can enhance the resilience, scalability, and maintainability of their applications. Compare and read user reviews of the best Microservices tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Crashtest Security

    Crashtest Security

    Crashtest Security

    Crashtest Security is a SaaS-based security vulnerability scanner allowing agile development teams to ensure continuous security before even hitting Production. Our state-of-the-art dynamic application security testing (DAST) solution integrates seamlessly with your dev environment and protects multi-page and JavaScript apps, as well as microservices and APIs. Set up Crashtest Security Suite in minutes, get advanced crawling options, and automate your security. Whether you want to see vulnerabilities within the OWASP Top 10 or you want to go for deep scans, Crashtest Security is here to help you stay on top of your security and protect your code and customers.
    Starting Price: €35 per month
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    Tyk

    Tyk

    Tyk Technologies

    Tyk is a leading Open Source API Gateway and Management Platform, featuring an API gateway, analytics, developer portal and dashboard. We power billions of transactions for thousands of innovative organisations. By making our capabilities easily accessible to developers, we make it fast, simple and low-risk for big enterprises to manage their APIs, adopt microservices and adopt GraphQL. Whether self-managed, cloud or a hybrid, our unique architecture and capabilities enable large, complex, global organisations to quickly deliver highly secure, highly regulated API-first applications and products that span multiple clouds and geographies.
    Starting Price: $600/month
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    Istio

    Istio

    Istio

    Connect, secure, control, and observe services. Istio’s traffic routing rules let you easily control the flow of traffic and API calls between services. Istio simplifies configuration of service-level properties like circuit breakers, timeouts, and retries, and makes it easy to set up important tasks like A/B testing, canary rollouts, and staged rollouts with percentage-based traffic splits. It also provides out-of-box failure recovery features that help make your application more robust against failures of dependent services or the network. Istio Security provides a comprehensive security solution to solve these issues. This page gives an overview on how you can use Istio security features to secure your services, wherever you run them. In particular, Istio security mitigates both insider and external threats against your data, endpoints, communication, and platform. Istio generates detailed telemetry for all service communications within a mesh.
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    Aerobase

    Aerobase

    Aerobase

    Aerobase is an open-source Identity and access management (IAM) platform that specializes in identity federation, SSO, strong & adaptive authentication, access control, account management & identity provisioning, API & microservices security and privacy regulation. This guide helps you get started with Aerobase. It covers server configuration and use of the default database. Advanced deployment options are not covered. For a deeper description of features or configuration options, consult the other reference guides.
    Starting Price: $690 per month
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    Telepresence

    Telepresence

    Ambassador Labs

    Telepresence streamlines your local development process, enabling immediate feedback. You can launch your local environment on your laptop, equipped with your preferred tools, while Telepresence seamlessly connects them to the microservices and test databases they rely on. It simplifies and expedites collaborative development, debugging, and testing within Kubernetes environments by establishing a seamless connection between your local machine and shared remote Kubernetes clusters. Why Telepresence: Faster feedback loops: Spend less time building, containerizing, and deploying code. Get immediate feedback on code changes by running your service in the cloud from your local machine. Shift testing left: Create a remote-to-local debugging experience. Catch bugs pre-production without the configuration headache of remote debugging. Deliver better, faster user experience: Get new features and applications into the hands of users faster and more frequently.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Styra

    Styra

    Styra

    The fastest and easiest way to operationalize Open Policy Agent across Kubernetes, Microservices or Custom APIs, whether you're a developer, an admin, or a bit of both. Need to limit which folks can access your pipeline, based on who is currently on call? Simple. Want to define which microservices can access PCI data? We got you. Have to prove compliance with regulations across your clusters? No sweat. Built on open-source, and declarative by design, Styra Declarative Authorization Service gives you a turnkey OPA control plane to mitigate risk, reduce human error, and accelerate development. A built-in library of policies. Built on our OPA project let you implement and customize authorization policy-as-code. Pre-running lets you monitor and validate policy changes before committing, to mitigate risk before deployment. Declarative model defines desired state to prevent security drift and eliminate errors, before they can occur.
    Starting Price: $70 per month
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    Epsagon

    Epsagon

    Epsagon

    Epsagon enables teams to instantly visualize, understand and optimize their microservice architectures. With our unique lightweight auto-instrumentation, gaps in data and manual work associated with other APM solutions are eliminated, providing significant reductions in issue detection, root cause analysis and resolution times. Increase development velocity and reduce application downtime with Epsagon.
    Starting Price: $89 per month
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    Fluentd

    Fluentd

    Fluentd Project

    A single, unified logging layer is key to make log data accessible and usable. However, existing tools fall short: legacy tools are not built for new cloud APIs and microservice-oriented architecture in mind and are not innovating quickly enough. Fluentd, created by Treasure Data, solves the challenges of building a unified logging layer with a modular architecture, an extensible plugin model, and a performance optimized engine. In addition to these features, Fluentd Enterprise addresses Enterprise requirements such as Trusted Packaging. Security. Certified Enterprise Connectors, Management / Monitoring, and Enterprise SLA-Based Support, Assurance, and Enterprise Consulting Services
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    Wallarm API Security Platform
    Built by security practitioners for practitioners, Wallarm's API security platform provides robust protection for APIs, web apps, microservices, and serverless workloads in cloud-native, multi-cloud, Kubernetes, and on-premises environments. It delivers coverage against OWASP API Top-10 risks and advanced threats, ensuring visibility and rapid vulnerability remediation. The Wallarm platform is a best-in-class API security solution that supports multiple deployment options. Trusted by security teams globally, Wallarm's API security platform is the fastest, easiest, and most effective way to stop API attacks. Customers choose Wallarm to protect their applications and AI agents because the platform delivers a complete inventory of APIs, patented AI/ML-based abuse detection, real-time blocking, and an API SOC-as-a-service.
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    Azure Front Door
    Scalable and secure entry point for fast delivery of your global applications. Easily join your distributed microservice architectures into a single global application using HTTP load balancing and path-based routing rules. Automate turning up new regions and scale-out with API-driven global actions, and independent fault-tolerance to your back end microservices in Azure—or anywhere. Deliver and protect your global application close to your end users with a "battle-tested" service built on world-class Microsoft Global Network infrastructure. Always keep your traffic on the best path to your app, improve your service scale, reduce latency, and increase throughput for your global users with edge load balancing and application acceleration. Easily manage domain mapping and traffic to your microservice backends using one central, global dashboard.
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    ServicePilot

    ServicePilot

    ServicePilot

    ServicePilot has a simple objective, to provide an accurate view of the IT and applications: security, availability and performance. Teams have a difficult problem, maintaining applications in perfect working order in a high-performance and secure way. This is not an easy task in this world of agile development, frequent changes, rapid evolution and ever-increasing complexity of information systems architecture. Since their introduction, a lot has changed in IT: Cloud computing has become the new standard, mobile devices have become more powerful, the Internet of Things is growing more and more, and micro-services and containers are changing the way applications are built. These changes are leading to new needs, and old tools will find it hard to adapt and will be insufficient. A new generation of monitoring tools has become necessary. However, the infrastructure, the network and the storage should not be neglected because applications would not work without them.
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    greymatter.io

    greymatter.io

    greymatter.io

    Maximize your resources. Ensure optimal use of your clouds, platforms, and software. This is application and API network operations management redefined. The same governance rules, observability, auditing, and policy control for every application, API, and network across your multi-cloud, data center and edge environments, all in one place. Zero-trust micro-segmentation, omni-directional traffic splitting, infrastructure agnostic attestation, and traffic management to secure your resources. ​IT-informed decision-making is real. Application, API & network monitoring and control generate massive IT operations data. Use it in real time through AI. Logging, metrics, tracing, and audits through Grey Matter simplifies integration and standardizes aggregation for all IT Operations data. Fully leverage your mesh telemetry and securely and flexibly future-proof your hybrid infrastructure.
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