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Gateway product tour

Connect providers, manage budgets and access, inspect usage, and investigate routing decisions and refusals.

Explore Gateway
Gateway Overview and spend over timeOpen in Cortex

Follow Gateway from a first client request to team management, usage and diagnostics. Start with the task you need; each section links to the complete guide, including permissions and result checks.

Connect a client

Use a personal token with the organization-issued Gateway URL. Provider credentials stay on the managed path.

Generate a personal token from SettingsOpen in Cortex

Generate your token and send the first request.

Connect a provider

Choose the upstream account, configure its endpoint and company key, then run Test connection on the saved row. Test a new request after configuration reaches an enrolled device. Shared Egress provider wiring follows its managed deployment.

Choose an upstream provider or the Cortex Router endpointOpen in Cortex
Set the provider endpoint, company key and enabled stateOpen in Cortex

Configure or replace a provider credential.

Find teams and members

Find a team in the list and inspect its membershipOpen in Cortex

Start with the team list, open the member table, then compare reporting relationships with Team membership. The hierarchy screens show the product design; use the linked guide for the current budget-save procedure.

Explore reporting branches and the selected memberOpen in Cortex

Open Teams and hierarchy.

Manage budgets

Select a subject, daily cap, filters and threshold action. Review configured records in the budget table, then confirm the saved record before testing the affected path.

Review configured budgets, daily caps, threshold actions and statusOpen in Cortex
Confirm the saved team cap, threshold action and filtersOpen in Cortex

Create a budget and verify its saved configuration.

Set rate limits

Create an organization requests-per-minute limit and confirm the RPM and active status.

Review organization RPM limits and active statusOpen in Cortex

Set an RPM limit and verify the affected path.

Restrict model and provider access

Add a scoped deny for a provider, exact model or both. Review active and disabled rows. To allow access again, disable the matching deny and check for other active matches before testing the request path.

Review deny rules by scope, provider, model and statusOpen in Cortex

Create a deny or restore access.

Inspect usage and spend

Select a reporting range and filters, then compare captured activity and estimated spend within that population.

Choose the reporting range, grouping, time bucket and activity filtersOpen in Cortex

Filter usage and investigate spend.

Understand routing decisions

Compare the requested model, recommendation and recorded routed target. Check application state and any linked response separately.

Compare requested, recommended and routed models in Shadow RouterOpen in Cortex

Inspect routing recommendations and application state.

Troubleshoot refusals

Start with the client status, then inspect the matching control and available denial evidence.

Compare recent rate-limit denial counts with their configured limitsOpen in Cortex

Find the matching control and verify a new request.

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