Managing your API is a never-ending process of registering and provisioning new developers, keeping an eye on performance, and responding to support requests from your developer community. Any one of these tasks can be time consuming for even just a single partner. When the number of partners grows to dozens... hundreds... thousands..., suddenly the job of managing your API quickly exceeds the bandwidth of most IT organizations.

Using Mashery's on-demand API infrastructure you can manage your API for simplified partner access, monitor API activity to ensure stability and performance, and collaborate with and support your development community.

API Management

If you have an API, you know that you need control access, manage usage, tune performance, and configure business rules to ensure compliance with standards. Mashery enables you to streamline repetitive API management tasks and accelerate the integration of new partners - all without creating additional work for your IT staff.

Key API Management features include:

• API registration, access and self-service provisioning
• Key issuance and credential management
• Usage throttling and limiting tied to key, user, method or group
• Intelligent caching of frequently used calls
• Business rules configuration based on filters, parameters, and methods

Metrics and Reporting Dashboard

Total management of your API is easier said than done. Control and transparency requirements range from metering usage and enforcing access limits to better understanding what parts of the API are being used and where the calls are originating. Mashery's solution include pre-configured reports and dashboards that give you the tools you need to analyze and optimize your API.

Insight to your business:

• API usage information provides call volumes, top method calls, and top user activity
• Developer activity tracks individual call volumes, error codes, and top methods
• System status reports measure uptime, track errors, and show cache activity
• Real-time insight to all activity and data export available for independent analysis

Community Management Tools

The success—or failure— of your API depends on your developer community. What's more, self- serve access to API information means that your IT staff will spend less time responding to API support requests, and more time focused on your core business. That's why Mashery features a comprehensive set of collaborative community tools that encourage communication and feedback. Developers can annotate documentation with comments. Blogs, forums and wikis are moderated and controlled by your team. Your company's look and feel is featured throughout, with a single sign-on for all tools.

Key developer and community tool features include:

• Fully integrated blog, wiki, documentation engine, and support forums
• Content management, versioning and documentation change control
• Full control of site CSS for true custom branding
• CNAME support for custom URL's