API Gateway Saturation

A recent API gateway deploy is under growing live traffic, and the gateway's own request queue and CPU are climbing even though the service fleet behind it responds quickly whenever it is actually reached. The gateway enforces authentication and authorization on every request, and that enforcement must remain in place — the business cannot accept trading away request-level identity checks for throughput. Diagnose what is actually consuming the gateway's own capacity as traffic grows, and bring it back to a durable, sustainable state without weakening what the gateway is supposed to protect.

Difficulty

Senior

Expected Time

~16 min

Category

API & Traffic