API analytics – API management allows users to monitor API usage, load, transaction logs, historical data, and other metrics that better inform the status as well as the success of the APIs available
- API design – API management solutions provide users – from developers to partners – the ability to design, publish and deploy APIs as well as record documentation, security policies, descriptions, usage limits, runtime capabilities and other relevant information.
- API gateway – API management solutions also serve as an API gateway, which acts as a gatekeeper for all APIs by enforcing relevant API security policies and requests and also guarantees authorization and security.
- API store – API management solutions provide users with the ability to keep their APIs in a store or catalog where they can expose them to internal and/or external stakeholders. This API “store” then serves as a marketplace for APIs, where users can subscribe to APIs, obtain support from users and the community, and so on
- API analytics – API management allow users to monitor API usage, load, transaction logs, historical data, and other metrics that better inform the status as well as the success of the APIs available.