Agent conversations are ungoverned
Your organization is deploying multi-agent systems where agents delegate tasks, share context, and make decisions together. Today, nobody knows what your agents are saying to each other.
Invisible Agent Conversations
Your agents are talking to each other, delegating tasks, and sharing data. Nobody knows what they are saying, what decisions they are making, or what data is being exchanged.
N-Squared Integration Chaos
Every new agent needs point-to-point connections to every other agent. Ten agents means ninety possible connections. Each one is a custom integration with no standardization.
No Agent Identity or Auth
Agents communicate with no verified identity, no authentication, and no authorization. Research shows 90% of enterprise AI agents are over-permissioned with no least-privilege controls.
No Rate Limiting Between Agents
One runaway agent can flood another with requests, causing cascading failures across your entire agent mesh. There are no circuit breakers, no backpressure, and no throttling.
No Central Registry or Discovery
Agents are hardcoded to find each other. There is no directory of available agents, their capabilities, or their health status. Adding a new agent means updating every other agent.
Compliance and Audit Risk
The EU AI Act requires explainability and audit trails for AI decision-making. When agents delegate to each other with no logging, you cannot demonstrate compliance to regulators.
The difference A2A Gateway makes
Go from ungoverned, invisible agent conversations to a centralized, auditable, and policy-driven control plane for every inter-agent interaction.
Before A2A Gateway
A2A GatewayGoverned communication
One gateway between every agent in your organization. Identity is verified. Policies are enforced. Every interaction is recorded.
Register agents and their Agent Cards in the centralized registry
The Gateway authenticates, authorizes, and routes every inter-agent message
Full observability, audit trails, and policy enforcement on every interaction
Works with any A2A-compatible framework
Built on the open Agent-to-Agent protocol. No framework lock-in.
Everything you need to govern agent-to-agent communication
Seven integrated capabilities that give you complete control over how your AI agents communicate, collaborate, and coordinate.
Agent Registry & Discovery
A centralized directory of all agents in your organization. Every agent registers its Agent Card — a JSON metadata document describing its identity, capabilities, skills, and endpoint. Other agents discover collaborators through the registry instead of maintaining hardcoded connections.
- Centralized Agent Card management with version history
- Capability-based search to find the right agent for any task
- Health monitoring and availability tracking per agent
- Automatic deregistration of unhealthy or decommissioned agents
Kubernetes-native from the ground up
Uses Kubernetes constructs — Deployments, Services, Gateway API, NetworkPolicies, RBAC, and Secrets — to run and secure agent-to-agent communication. No external SaaS dependency.
Kubernetes Native GitOps
Deploys through standard Helm charts with ArgoCD CI/CD pipeline option. Uses K8s Deployments, Services, and Gateway API — aligns with your existing platform practices.
Flexible Storage
PostgreSQL for persistent Agent Card storage, audit logs, and policy definitions. Redis for distributed caching, rate limit coordination, and cross-replica state.
Zero-Trust Agent Networking
Agents never communicate directly. All inter-agent traffic is forced through the gateway — a single choke point for NetworkPolicies, RBAC, and mTLS enforcement. Prevents lateral movement by design.
Prometheus Metrics
Native Prometheus endpoint for direct integration with your existing Grafana stack. Agent interaction volumes, latency percentiles, and error rates with bearer token authentication.
Horizontal Auto-Scaling
Handles horizontal scaling across multiple replicas with shared state. Whether you have 10 agents or 1,000, the gateway scales with your agent mesh.
Multi-Tenant Isolation
Every database query, cache lookup, and metrics query is scoped to the authenticated user's organization. Cross-tenant access is architecturally impossible.
Kubernetes
Prometheus
PostgreSQL
Helm
ArgoCDBuilt for enterprise scale
Advanced capabilities for organizations running multi-agent systems at scale that need tighter governance, compliance automation, and cross-organizational federation.
Multi-Agent Cost Tracking & Budget Controls
Track the cost of every agent-to-agent interaction including token usage, compute time, and downstream API calls. Set per-agent and per-workflow budgets with automated alerts and hard limits that prevent cost overruns.
Compliance Automation
Automated compliance reporting for EU AI Act, SOC 2, and HIPAA requirements. Generate audit-ready reports showing which agents communicated, what data was exchanged, and which policies were enforced across every interaction.
Emergency Kill Switch
Instantly halt specific agent-to-agent communication channels or shut down individual agents across your entire infrastructure. Granular controls allow you to pause a single agent, a communication pair, or all inter-agent traffic organization-wide.
Federated Discovery Across Organizations
Allow agents across different business units, subsidiaries, or partner organizations to discover and communicate through governed federation points. Each organization maintains its own registry while enabling controlled cross-boundary collaboration.
The A2A Gateway works alongside the Axiom MCP Gateway for tool governance and the Axiom LLM Gateway for model access — unified control across your entire AI stack. Read more about our approach to enterprise AI on the Axiom blog, or learn about the team behind the platform on our About page.