Licensed GraphOS Router Features

This page lists the additional features of GraphOS Router that are enabled via integration with a licensed GraphOS plan.

Refer to the pricing page to compare GraphOS Router features across plan types.

GraphOS Router licensed features

• Real-time updates via GraphQL subscriptions

• Improved performance with query batching

• Authentication of inbound requests via JSON Web Token (JWT)

• Authorization of specific fields and types through the @requiresScopes, @authenticated, and @policy directives

• Incremental migration between subgraphs through the progressive @override directive.

• Redis-backed distributed caching of query plans and persisted queries

• Redis-backed entity caching of subgraph responses

• Custom request handling in any language via external coprocessing

• Mitigation of potentially malicious requests via request limits, demand control, and safelisting

• Custom instrumentation and telemetry, including custom attributes for spans.

• An offline license that enables running the router with GraphOS features when disconnected from the internet.

• Using contexts to share data with the @context and @fromContext directives

Enabling licensed plan features

To enable licensed plan features in a router:

• You must run GraphOS Router v1.12 or later. Download the latest version.

  • Certain features might require a later router version. See a particular feature's documentation for details.

• Your router instances must connect to GraphOS with a graph API key and graph ref associated with your organization.

  • You connect your router to GraphOS by setting these environment variables when starting the router.

Learn more about the GraphOS plan license.