- The Airlock Microgateway is available in two editions:
- ●Community edition: Works without a license key but has limited functionality and public community support.
- ●Premium edition: Requires a commercial license. Includes the full feature set and premium support.
More information about support can be found in the support information section below.
Community vs. premium features
The following table gives an overview of all features and how they are available in which edition:
Functionality | Community edition (free) | Premium edition |
Reverse Proxy TLS termination, URL rewriting, cookie store | Yes | Yes |
Selected Deny Rules SQLi or XSS attack prevention, sanity checks | Yes | Yes |
Session Management Keep multiple instances in sync via Redis | Yes | Yes |
Connect Airlock IAM Access control and authentication | Yes | Yes |
Denial-of-Service (DoS) Protection Limits, Request Freq., IPs/Session | Yes | Yes |
Client Certificates Authentication with client certificates | Yes | Yes |
Prometheus Metrics Monitoring and alerting using Prometheus | Yes | Yes |
Customized Reporting Stack Log and reporting stack based on ELK, with built-in Airlock dashboards | Yes | Yes |
OpenAPI Enforcement Enforce OpenAPI/Swagger specifications | Log only | Yes |
JWT Access Tokens Verify tokens, access decisions based on token details | Log only | Yes |
All Deny Rules Over 30 more groups of blacklist rules | Log only | Yes |
Custom Deny Rules Custom rules for blocking traffic | Log only | Yes |
Encoding Enforcement Option for strictly enforcing UTF8 | No | Yes |
More Security Features Allow Rules, CSRF Tokens, HTTP Parameter Pollution, Multipart Parser, URL Encryption | Log only | Yes |
Support | Community Support | Premium Support |
Service Life | 1 year after publication (per release) | Continuous (according to license) |
Log only | This means that a feature is only available in a non-enforcing mode. For instance, detected attacks are logged but not blocked. Access tokens are verified, but requests are not stopped if tokens are invalid. Using the "log only" mode, features can be evaluated, but their full preventive power is available in the premium edition only. |
Service life restriction | We take security seriously. Using up-to-date software is an important pillar in any security strategy. Therefore, we restrict the lifetime of releases to one year after publication in the community edition. This will motivate users to keep their Airlock Microgateway image up-to-date. |
Which features am I missing with the community edition?
The community edition only supports a restricted feature set. To find out which security features would provide additional protection with the premium edition, follow the instructions in Limitations of the Community Edition.
Try the premium features
To test the premium features for free, we are happy to send you a time-limited license. Contact us on https://airlock.com/microgateway-premium to get your trial license.
Support information
The Airlock support process distinguishes between the Community and Premium edition of Airlock Microgateway .
Community edition | A public forum for questions and free support around the Community edition is available under Airlock Community Support Forum.
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Premium edition | Support with detailed analyses of your specific case and guaranteed SLAs is offered for licensed/trial Premium editions only.
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