About

Sharkradar is

• Service (RD) registry and discovery
• HTTP based service
• Compatible with any micro-service
• Weighted priority discovery
• Service which tells you the address of best instance of server which can handle your request
• Can register/discover heterogeneous instances (of micro-services) and homogeneous instances

Sharkradar is not

• API Gateway
• Not a router to redirect requests
• Not a proxy/reverse-proxy
• A poller which will check if the services are up. It only knows if services are up, only when service tells itself