AsyncAPI

aid: asyncapi
name: AsyncAPI
description: >-
  AsyncAPI is a Linux Foundation project that improves the state of
  event-driven architectures by providing an open specification and tooling
  ecosystem for defining asynchronous and event-driven APIs. It enables
  developers to document, validate, generate code, and manage message-driven
  APIs across protocols including Kafka, MQTT, WebSocket, AMQP, and others.
  The AsyncAPI specification serves as the industry standard for describing
  asynchronous messaging interfaces, similar to how OpenAPI serves REST APIs.
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - Event-Driven
  - Linux Foundation
  - Messaging
  - Standards
  - Specification
url: >-
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/asyncapi/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-04-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: asyncapi:asyncapi-spec
    name: AsyncAPI Specification
    description: >-
      The AsyncAPI Specification is an open standard for describing asynchronous
      and event-driven APIs. It provides a machine-readable format for defining
      messaging interfaces across protocols like Kafka, MQTT, WebSocket, and
      AMQP, enabling documentation generation, code generation, and validation
      tooling for event-driven architectures.
    humanURL: https://www.asyncapi.com/docs
    tags:
      - Event-Driven
      - Messaging
      - Specification
      - Standards
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.asyncapi.com/docs
      - type: GettingStarted
        url: https://www.asyncapi.com/docs/tutorials/getting-started
      - type: AsyncAPI
        url: https://github.com/asyncapi/spec/blob/master/spec/asyncapi.md
common:
  - type: Portal
    url: https://www.asyncapi.com/
    title: AsyncAPI Website
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.asyncapi.com/docs
    title: Documentation
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/asyncapi
    title: AsyncAPI GitHub Organization
  - type: Blog
    url: https://www.asyncapi.com/blog
    title: Blog
  - type: Features
    data:
      - name: AsyncAPI Specification
        description: >-
          An open specification standard for describing asynchronous and
          event-driven APIs, supporting multiple messaging protocols including
          Kafka, MQTT, WebSocket, AMQP, and more.
      - name: AsyncAPI Generator
        description: >-
          Code and documentation generation tool that uses AsyncAPI definitions
          to produce boilerplate code, documentation, and other artifacts
          in multiple programming languages.
      - name: AsyncAPI CLI
        description: >-
          Command-line interface tool for working with AsyncAPI files including
          validation, generation, and conversion operations from the terminal.
      - name: AsyncAPI Studio
        description: >-
          Web-based editor and visualization tool for creating, editing, and
          previewing AsyncAPI specification documents with real-time validation.
      - name: Protocol Support
        description: >-
          Broad protocol support covering Kafka, MQTT, WebSocket, AMQP, NATS,
          JMS, and other messaging protocols through a unified specification
          format.
  - type: UseCases
    data:
      - name: Event-Driven API Documentation
        description: >-
          Development teams use AsyncAPI to create machine-readable documentation
          for their message-driven APIs, making it easier for consumers to
          understand and integrate with event streams.
      - name: Code Generation for Messaging
        description: >-
          Engineers generate boilerplate code for Kafka consumers, MQTT
          publishers, and other messaging clients directly from AsyncAPI
          specifications to accelerate development.
      - name: API Governance for Event-Driven Systems
        description: >-
          Platform teams apply AsyncAPI specifications to enforce standards
          and governance across microservices architectures using event-driven
          communication.
  - type: Integrations
    data:
      - name: Apache Kafka
        description: >-
          AsyncAPI supports defining Kafka-based event-driven APIs with
          topic, message schema, and broker configuration documentation.
      - name: MQTT Brokers
        description: >-
          IoT and messaging platforms using MQTT can document their pub/sub
          interfaces using AsyncAPI specifications for device and service
          integration.
      - name: CI/CD Pipelines
        description: >-
          AsyncAPI CLI integrates into continuous integration pipelines for
          automated validation and linting of AsyncAPI specification files.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]