Mashery Features

Unleash Your Channel in Minutes

MasheryTM allows your company to build and control your API channels without burdening in-house staff with the headaches of access control, usage measurement and community management. Your web service is the key to the successful distribution of your application. But creation was only the first step: achieving success requires security, control, scale and community support.

Security

Access, Authentication & Usage Management
You need a real-time view of who is using your web service - and how - while simultaneously guarding against misuse. You need to issue developer keys and provision new web service customers instantly and grant additional privileges to trusted users. Mashery includes:

  • Customer provisioning, developer registration and key issuance
  • Regulated web service access and authentication (native and third party)
  • Proxy that blocks all but approved requests from reaching your API server
  • Security access reports, metrics and audit logs


Control

Metering, Metrics and Management
Total control of your Web Service is easier said than done. Control and transparency requirements range from metering and enforcing access limits to a wide array of usage metrics. Mashery’s solution comes with a rich set of metrics and reports (see sample screenshots) that give you the tools to analyze how your service is being accessed and used across your customer base. Mashery provides all these features out-of-the-box, including:

  • Configurable web service usage and access limits
  • Uptime, performance and availability monitoring
  • Rule-based, configurable web service charging and billing
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Scalability

Caching, Throttling and Dynamic Provisioning
Powering your web service also means making it better. Mashery’s proxying technology enables you to improve your web service performance across your entire customer base. That means better performance for all your customers. Through its intelligent caching capabilities, Mashery pushes the results of your most frequently accessed web service calls right to the edge of the network. Coupled with Mashery’s rate limiting functionality, you can define and enforce rules to throttle your individual customer’s web service usage. Key scaling features include:

  • Intelligent caching
  • Usage throttling and limiting
  • Dynamic, rules-based provisioning
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Community

Developer and Community Tools
Your success—or failure—depends on your web services developer community. That’s why Mashery comes out-of-the-box with a complete and comprehensive set of developer and community tools. Developers can annotate documentation with comments. A developers’ blog, forum and wiki are moderated and controlled by your team. And all of it in your company's look and feel, with a single sign-on for all tools. Key developer and community tool features include:

  • Fully-integrated and hosted web service blog, wiki, annotated documentation and forum
  • Full control of site CSS for true custom "skin"
  • Content management, versioning and change control
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MasheryPro Features

Feature MasheryPro
Integrated forum, wiki and blog with single sign-on and customizable moderation settings Yes
Customizable developer community “skin” with configurable logo, header, footer, color scheme and CSS Yes
Annotation tools for documentation (you control the content, your developers can add comments and examples) Yes
Developer registration, key issuance and user management Yes
Domain redirect support (developer.yourcompany.com) Yes
Open or private developer network support Yes
Integration of pre-existing developer database and infrastructure Yes
Web services proxying and intelligent caching Yes
API access control, throttling and usage limit enforcement Yes
Security access reports, metrics and audit logs Yes
Web services uptime, availability and performance monitoring Yes
Advanced web services usage statistics, reporting and metrics Yes
Rule-based and configurable web services charging and billing Yes

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