# Envoy Proxy

> Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04.

- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/envoy-proxy
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/envoy-proxy.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/envoy-proxy/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://envoyproxy.io
- **Slug:** envoy-proxy
- **Categories:** cloud-infrastructure, developer-tools

## Overview

- **Tagline:** An L7-focused proxy designed from the ground up for cloud-native microservices with a focus on observability and extension via filters.
Source: Brand's website (https://envoyproxy.io) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** Envoy Proxy is an open-source, high-performance edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. Originally developed by Lyft, it focuses on making the network transparent to applications and provides robust observability and networking features for distributed architectures.
Source: Brand's website (https://envoyproxy.io) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:** Envoy Proxy (Edge/Service Proxy)
Source: Brand's website (https://envoyproxy.io) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Free / Open Source (Apache 2.0 License)
Source: Brand's website (https://envoyproxy.io) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud Architects, Enterprise Microservices
Source: Brand's website (https://envoyproxy.io) · 2026-10-04

## Landscape

- **Competitors:**
  - HAProxy
  - Istio
  - NGINX
  - Linkerd (Linkerd2-proxy)
Source: Brand's website (https://envoyproxy.io) · 2026-10-04

Page last updated 2026-10-17.