anchor.diff:  How can businesses address all these challenges seamlessly, for all APIs, using a centralized tool? Simple – by choosing Gravitee.io API Management.
   
   [[gravitee-overview]]
  -== What Is Gravitee.io API Management? 
  +== What Is Gravitee.io API Management?
   
  -Gravitee.io API Management (APIM) is a flexible, lightweight, and blazing-fast open source API management solution that gives your organization full control over who accesses your API — when and how. APIM is both simple to use and powerful, acting as a global solution for API management. Gravitee.io APIM is composed of four main components: 
  +Gravitee.io API Management (APIM) is a flexible, lightweight, and blazing-fast open source API management solution that gives your organization full control over who accesses your API — when and how. APIM is both simple to use and powerful, acting as a global solution for API management. Gravitee.io APIM is composed of four main components:
   
  -1. link:/apim/3.x/apim_overview_components.html#gravitee-components-gateway[APIM Gateway].  
  -2. link:/apim/3.x/apim_overview_components.html#gravitee-components-rest-api[APIM API]. 
  -3. link:/apim/3.x/apim_overview_components.html#gravitee-components-mgmt-ui[APIM Console]. 
  -4. link:/apim/3.x/apim_overview_components.html#gravitee-components-portal-ui[APIM Portal]. 
  +1. link:/apim/3.x/apim_overview_components.html#gravitee-components-gateway[APIM Gateway].
  +2. link:/apim/3.x/apim_overview_components.html#gravitee-components-rest-api[APIM API].
  +3. link:/apim/3.x/apim_overview_components.html#gravitee-components-mgmt-ui[APIM Console].
  +4. link:/apim/3.x/apim_overview_components.html#gravitee-components-portal-ui[APIM Portal].
   
  -We'll dive into these components in detail in their respective sections. 
  +We'll dive into these components in detail in their respective sections.
   
   [[why-gravitee-API]]
   == Why Gravitee.io API Management?
   
   Our goal in launching Gravitee.io APIM is to provide users with a highly flexible and scalable solution that integrates with their infrastructure seamlessly and fits their business needs perfectly. We’ve designed and developed APIM to be fully extensible using its own internal plugin system, so you can define your own policy, develop your own reporting system, and more.
   
  -Additionally, all APIM components (including <<apim_overview_components.adoc#gravitee-components-gateway, API Gateway>> and <<apim_overview_components.adoc#gravitee-components-rest-api, APIM API>>) are incredibly lightweight. We took a consciously aggressive approach to CPU and memory management with our products to supply high availability through our lightning-fast component start-up times. 
  +Additionally, all APIM components (including <<apim_overview_components.adoc#gravitee-components-gateway, API Gateway>> and <<apim_overview_components.adoc#gravitee-components-rest-api, APIM API>>) are incredibly lightweight. We took a consciously aggressive approach to CPU and memory management with our products to supply high availability through our lightning-fast component start-up times.
   
   Typically, *_it takes less than 5 seconds_* for the API Gateway to be accessible to consumers (subject to the number of APIs being deployed).
   
  
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  [[gravitee-concepts-consumer]]
  === Consumer
  In our platform, we define a *consumer* (also called *API consumer*) as the role that consumes APIs. [underline]*PRO-TIP*: A consumer can only consume an API after subscribing to it. 
  
  [[gravitee-concepts-application]]
  === Application
  
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  :page-description: Gravitee.io API Management - Introduction
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  :page-keywords: Gravitee.io, API Platform, API Management, API Gateway, oauth2, openid, documentation, manual, guide, reference, api
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