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Incoming Traffic

The Incoming Traffic section provides configuration options and integration methods to send API traffic to ApiFort for inspection, analysis, and protection.

What is Incoming Traffic?

Incoming traffic refers to the API requests that are forwarded from your environment to ApiFort. These requests are processed for threat detection, visibility, and policy enforcement. This allows ApiFort to function effectively as part of your API security infrastructure.

Why Use It?

By forwarding your API traffic to ApiFort, you enable the platform to:

  • Analyze real-time traffic for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations

  • Detect and prevent malicious behavior

  • Enforce security policies and access control

  • Generate rich insights and observability data

How It Works?

ApiFort supports multiple integration methods for traffic ingestion:

  • Direct Agent Deployment

  • Traffic Mirroring

  • Load Balancer Forwarding (e.g., F5, NGINX)

  • Service Mesh Sidecars

  • Inline Reverse Proxy Mode

  • Cloud-based forwarding (e.g., Cloudflare Workers)

Choose the method that best fits your infrastructure and follow the step-by-step guides under each method to complete your setup.