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# LLM Documentation for Grafbase

Grafbase is the easiest way to manage large scale federated graphs and is the fastest GraphQL Gateway on the market.
Compose your unified API from multiple data sources in just a few minutes with the Grafbase CLI.

## Docs
- [Gateway - Installation](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/installation.md): How to install the Grafbase Gateway
- [Gateway - Deployment - Docker](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/deployment/docker.md)
- [Gateway - Deployment - Kubernetes](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/deployment/kubernetes.md)
- [Gateway - Deployment - Lambda](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/deployment/lambda.md)
- [Gateway - Deployment - Reliability](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/deployment/reliability.md): Grafbase Gateway Reliability
- [Gateway - Extensions](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/extensions.md): Learn how to extend the functionality of the Grafbase Gateway with extensions.
- [Gateway - Extensions - Specs - Grafbase directives & types for extensions](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/extensions/specs/grafbase-spec.md): Specification of all the grafbase directives and types available for extensions.
- [Gateway - Extensions - Specs - Grafbase directives & types for extensions - v1.0](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/extensions/specs/grafbase-spec/v1.0.md)
- [Gateway - Extensions - Specs - Grafbase directives & types for extensions - v2.0](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/extensions/specs/grafbase-spec/v2.0.md)
- [Gateway - Extensions - Specs - Composite schemas with Grafbase](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/extensions/specs/composite-schemas-spec.md): Specification of all the supported composite schemas directives and their changes
- [Gateway - Extensions - Specs - Composite schemas with Grafbase - v1.0](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/extensions/specs/composite-schemas-spec/v1.0.md)
- [Gateway - Extensions - Composition](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/extensions/composition.md): How schema composition works with extensions
- [Gateway - MCP](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/mcp.md): Learn how to configure Model Context Protocol server
- [Gateway - Observability](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/observability.md): Learn about Grafbase Observability, a powerful tool to monitor gateway operations and errors through logs, traces, and metrics.
- [Gateway - Performance - Automatic Persisted Queries](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/performance/automatic-persisted-queries.md): Learn how to use Automatic Persisted Queries to optimize your GraphQL requests.
- [Gateway - Performance - Entity Caching](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/performance/entity-caching.md): Learn how to configure Entity Caching in the Grafbase Gateway.
- [Gateway - Performance - Compression](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/performance/compression.md)
- [Gateway - Security](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/security.md): Learn about the security features of Grafbase, the easiest way to secure federated GraphQL APIs.
- [Gateway - Security - Trusted Documents](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/security/trusted-documents.md): Register an allow-list of GraphQL operations for security and performance
- [Gateway - Security - Schema Contracts](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/security/schema-contracts.md): Define and enforce schema contracts for security
- [Gateway - Security - Rate Limiting](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/security/rate-limiting.md): Learn how to configure rate limiting in Grafbase Gateway to protect your GraphQL APIs from abuse.
- [Gateway - Security - Operation Limits](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/security/operation-limits.md): Protect your GraphQL API from attacks like complex and deeply nested queries that overload the server and/or database.
- [Gateway - Security - Complexity control](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/security/complexity-control.md): Limit load on downstream servers by blocking overly complex queries
- [Gateway - Security - Message Signatures](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/security/message-signatures.md): Securely sign subgraph HTTP requests using HTTP message signatures
- [Gateway - Security - Authentication](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/security/authentication.md): Control access to your federated graph.
- [Gateway - Security - Authorization](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/security/authorization.md): Control access to specific fields, objects and more in your federated graph.
- [Gateway - Security - Access Logs](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/security/access-logs.md): Customize access logs for the Grafbase Gateway.
- [Gateway - Security - Access Tokens](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/security/access-tokens.md): Personal Access Tokens grant access for the Grafbase CLI, Management API, and the Grafbase Gateway.
- [Gateway - Arguments](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/arguments.md): Grafbase Gateway Command Line Arguments
- [Gateway - Configuration - Authentication](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/configuration/authentication.md)
- [Gateway - Configuration - Automatic Persisted Queries](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/configuration/automatic-persisted-queries.md): Automatic Persisted Queries reference configuration options.
- [Gateway - Configuration - Complexity Control](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/configuration/complexity-control.md)
- [Gateway - Configuration - Cross-Origin Resource Sharing](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/configuration/cross-origin-resource-sharing.md)
- [Gateway - Configuration - Cross-Site Request Forgery Prevention](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/configuration/cross-site-request-forgery-prevention.md)
- [Gateway - Configuration - Durations](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/configuration/durations.md)
- [Gateway - Configuration - Entity Cache](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/configuration/entity-cache.md): Gateway configuration options
- [Gateway - Configuration - Error Code Mapping](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/configuration/error-code-mapping.md)
- [Gateway - Configuration - Extensions](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/configuration/extensions.md): Learn how to configure extensions in the Grafbase Gateway.
- [Gateway - Configuration - Gateway](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/configuration/gateway.md): Configure the Grafbase Gateway
- [Gateway - Configuration - Graph](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/configuration/graph.md)
- [Gateway - Configuration - Headers](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/configuration/headers.md): Gateway configuration options
- [Gateway - Configuration - Health Checks](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/configuration/health-checks.md)
- [Gateway - Configuration - Hooks](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/configuration/hooks.md)
- [Gateway - Configuration - MCP](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/configuration/mcp.md)
- [Gateway - Configuration - Message Signatures](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/configuration/message-signatures.md): Configuration options for message signatures.
- [Gateway - Configuration - Network](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/configuration/network.md)
- [Gateway - Configuration - Operation Caching](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/configuration/operation-caching.md)
- [Gateway - Configuration - Operation Limits](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/configuration/operation-limits.md): Gateway configuration options
- [Gateway - Configuration - Rate Limits](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/configuration/rate-limits.md): Configure rate limiting
- [Gateway - Configuration - Subgraph Configuration](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/configuration/subgraph-configuration.md): Configure settings per subgraph to add to or override global settings
- [Gateway - Configuration - Telemetry](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/configuration/telemetry.md): Gateway configuration options
- [Gateway - Configuration - Transport Layer Security](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/configuration/transport-layer-security.md)
- [Gateway - Configuration - Trusted Documents](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/configuration/trusted-documents.md): Gateway configuration options
- [Gateway - Configuration - Websockets](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/configuration/websockets.md)
- [Gateway - Errors](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/errors.md): Gateway error codes and messages
- [Gateway - Telemetry - Tracing Spans and Attributes](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/telemetry/tracing-attributes.md): Spans and Attributes for Gateway Tracing
- [Gateway - Telemetry - Metrics and Attributes](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/telemetry/metrics-attributes.md): Metrics and Attributes for Grafbase Gateway
- [Gateway - Telemetry - Sanitization](https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/telemetry/sanitization.md): OpenTelemetry data is sanitized to avoid leaking any sensisitve data.
- [Platform - API](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/api.md): Manage projects using the Grafbase API.
- [Platform - Schema Proposals](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/schema-proposals.md): Learn about Grafbase Schema Proposals, a powerful tool to design, discuss, review and approve changes to subgraph schemas before they can be published.
- [Platform - Schema Registry](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/schema-registry.md): Learn about the Grafbase schema registry, a powerful tool for managing federated GraphQL APIs.
- [Platform - Self-Hosting](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting.md): Self-hosted version of the Grafbase platform.
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Installation](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/installation.md): Learn how to install the Grafbase Enterprise Platform, a powerful on-prem GraphQL Federation solution that provides complete control over your data and infrastructure.
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Charts - API](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/charts/api.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Charts - Dashboard](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/charts/dashboard.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Charts - Telemetry Sink](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/charts/telemetry-sink.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Charts - OpenTelemetry Collector](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/charts/otel-collector.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Charts - Zitadel](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/charts/zitadel.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Charts - Postgres](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/charts/postgres.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Charts - ClickHouse](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/charts/clickhouse.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Charts - Minio](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/charts/minio.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Charts - Kafka](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/charts/kafka.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Single sign on with OpenID Connect](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/single-sign-on.md): Set up Enterprise Platform authentication directly with your identity provider
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Observability](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/observability.md): Overview of the OpenTelemetry based telemetry exposed by the Grafbase Enterprise Platform.
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Release notes - v0.10.0](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/release-notes/0.10.0.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Release notes - v0.9.0](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/release-notes/0.9.0.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Release notes - v0.8.10](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/release-notes/0.8.10.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Release notes - v0.8.9](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/release-notes/0.8.9.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Release notes - v0.8.8](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/release-notes/0.8.8.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Release notes - v0.8.7](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/release-notes/0.8.7.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Release notes - v0.8.6](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/release-notes/0.8.6.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Release notes - v0.8.5](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/release-notes/v0.8.5.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Release notes - v0.8.4](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/release-notes/v0.8.4.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Release notes - v0.8.3](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/release-notes/v0.8.3.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Release notes - v0.8.0](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/release-notes/v0.8.0.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Release notes - v0.7.0](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/release-notes/v0.7.0.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Release notes - v0.6.6](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/release-notes/v0.6.6.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Release notes - v0.6.5](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/release-notes/v0.6.5.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Release notes - v0.6.4](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/release-notes/v0.6.4.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Release notes - v0.6.3](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/release-notes/v0.6.3.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Release notes - v0.6.2](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/release-notes/v0.6.2.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Release notes - v0.6.1](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/release-notes/v0.6.1.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Release notes - v0.6.0](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/release-notes/v0.6.0.md)
- [Platform - Self-Hosting - Release notes - v0.5.2](https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/self-hosting/release-notes/v0.5.2.md)