ngrok’s Universal Gateway is a suite of common tools for building API and device gateways, identity-aware proxies, and site-to-site connectivity. It secures, accelerates, and protects your applications. We call it a Universal Gateway because it supports TCP and TLS applications as well as HTTP/S.

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Concepts

Dive into the different parts of the Universal Gateway like Endpoints, Bindings, Pools, and Domains to understand how they work. Learn more about Universal Gateway Concepts:

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Endpoints

Endpoints are how ngrok enables traffic to reach your services. Learn more about Endpoints:

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Load Balancing

Endpoints Pools make load balancing dead simple. When your create two endpoints with the same URL (and binding), those endpoints automatically “pool” together and traffic to their URL is balanced among them.

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TLS

ngrok automatically handles TLS (SSL) termination and certificate management for you. There is typically nothing to setup, configure, or manage.

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Global Load Balancer

ngrok’s Global Load Balancer automatically improves the performance and resiliency of your applications by distributing traffic to the nearest healthy point of presence, measured by latency, from the perspective of the connecting client.

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DDoS Protection

ngrok automatically protects your applications with out-of-the-box protection from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.