Hasura GraphQL Engine Documentation

The Hasura GraphQL Engine makes your data instantly accessible over a real-time GraphQL API, so you can build and ship modern, performant apps and APIs 10x faster. Hasura connects to your databases, REST and GraphQL endpoints, and third party APIs to provide a unified, connected, real-time, secured GraphQL API for all of your data.

Hasura Cloud empowers you to create highly optimised, managed and massively scalable Hasura instances in seconds and includes extra reliability, monitoring, caching, tracing, security and deployment features. You can also deploy Hasura manually using our Community Edition Docker image which includes all the core features of GraphQL Engine.

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Basics

You can get up and running with Hasura in minutes by following our Getting Started guide.

See Getting Started

GraphQL API

We provide an instant GraphQL API by generating your GraphQL schema for you based on your data.

See Schema

Business Logic

With built-in extensibility, Hasura can handle business logic via Actions, Remote Schemas, and Event Triggers.

See Business Logic

Auth

By using role-based authorization and industry-standard authentication patterns, you can secure your app and your data with ease.

See Auth

Deployments

Whether you're using Hasura Cloud or one of your favorite one-click services, Hasura's flexibility makes it quick to deploy.

See Deployment Guides

Learn

Our Learn team is hard at work creating courses to help developers learn more about Hasura and GraphQL.

See Courses

Cloud Projects

Hasura Cloud gives you a fully managed, production ready GraphQL API as a service to help you build modern apps faster.

See Getting Started with Cloud

Observability

For enhanced reliability and performance, Hasura Cloud offers easy-to-integrate metrics and compatibility with different common services.

See Metrics

Query Response Caching

For frequently executed queries, Hasura Cloud offers caching to improve performance and your users' experience.

See Query Response Caching

Regression Tests

With regression tests, Hasura Cloud provides you a comprehensive test bench which is executable on any GraphQL Engine instance.

See Regression Tests

GraphQL API Explorer

Browse, query, mutate, and subscribe to any GraphQL endpoint with our free, full-featured, in-browser GraphiQL app without having to log into Hasura.

See API Explorer

API Security

Keep your API secure and healthy with tools like API limits, allow limits, multiple secrets, and more.

See Security