Unkey is the open-source platform that unifies API key management, rate limiting, deployment, and observability into a single control plane. The Go API service validates keys with sub-millisecond latency using regional Redis caches and MySQL 8.0 persistent storage, while ClickHouse captures every verification event for per-key and per-keyspace analytics with filterable time-series charts, request counters, and active key tracking. Keyspaces organize API keys by product, environment, or tier, each configurable with custom prefixes, byte lengths, IP whitelists, encrypted key recovery, and delete protection. Per-key settings include expiration dates, rate limit quotas with configurable windows, RBAC roles and permissions, owner identities linking multiple keys to a single user or organization, and key rotation with grace periods from immediate revocation through 24-hour overlap. The deployment pipeline connects GitHub repositories for automatic Docker container builds, generates preview environments per commit, promotes tested versions to production, and validates releases with OpenAPI diff detection flagging breaking changes before production. The edge gateway authenticates and rate-limits requests at the closest region before routing to the nearest API instance. Immutable audit logs track every key creation, verification, deletion, and configuration change with actor, timestamp, and event metadata. The CLI provides terminal access to key management, analytics queries, and deployment operations. On RepoCloud, deploy Unkey on a dedicated VPS with Docker, root SSH access, and complete control over your API infrastructure, all under the AGPL license.