AsyncAPI
AsyncAPI Specification
Adopt
Foundation
AsyncAPI Initiative, Linux Foundation
Since 2017
Judgement: Adopt
The OpenAPI-equivalent for event APIs once you commit to documenting them.
Open-source standard for defining event-driven and message-based APIs across protocols like Kafka, AMQP, MQTT, WebSocket, and NATS.
Where OpenAPI describes synchronous request/response, AsyncAPI describes asynchronous channels. The two specifications are intentionally aligned in style.
At a glance
- Category
- Contracts
- Governance
- AsyncAPI Initiative, Linux Foundation
- Status
- Stable; v3 current
- First released
- 2017
Links
Related standards
Other standards in Contracts.
- GraphQL
- ODCS — Open Data Contract Standard
- OpenAPI — OpenAPI Specification
- gRPC — gRPC Remote Procedure Call
- OData — Open Data Protocol (v4)
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