Forum Sentry API Gateway Sizing

Please complete this questionnaire and send it to Forum Systems or an authorized partner for a sizing consultation and configuration recommendation.

Note that Forum Systems recommends 3 Sentry instances at a minimum - with 2 allocated for production and 1 for non-production use.

 

1. HOW MANY APIs AND WHAT VOLUME?
  
  Total number of APIs: ___________
  Peak transactions per second (TPS): ___________
  Average TPS: ___________
 

2. WHAT TYPES OF APIs?
  
  __ REST/JSON

  __ SOAP/XML

Other: ___________


3. WHAT ARE YOUR PAYLOAD SIZES?
  
  Typical size: ___________ KB/MB
  Largest size: ___________ KB/MB
  
  Typical Attachments size: ___________ KB/MB    
  Largest Attachments size: ___________ KB/MB
 

4. WHAT ARE YOUR PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS AND SLAs?
  
  Maximum latency allowed: ___________ ms
  Required uptime: __ 99.9%  __ 99.99%  __ 99.999%

Other: ___________


5. DO YOU NEED HIGH AVAILABILITY?
  
  __ Single instance (no HA)
  __ Active-Passive (1 active + 1 standby)
  __ Active-Active (multiple active instances)
  
  Number of data centers: ___________


6. HOW WILL YOU DEPLOY?
  
  __ Physical hardware appliance
  __ Virtual appliance (VMware)
  __ Cloud (AWS/Azure)
  __ Software (AWS/Azure)
  __ Containers (Docker/Podman)

  __ Multiple: ___________

 

7. DO YOU NEED AN HSM (HARDWARE SECURITY MODULE)?
  
  __ Yes
  __ No


8. WHAT INTEGRATIONS ARE NEEDED?
  
  __ Identity Providers (e.g. LDAP/Active Directory, Okta, Ping, etc.): ___________________________
  __ SIEM: ___________________________
  __ Database: ___________________________
  __ Other: ___________________________
 

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