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.
- 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
Key API Management features include:
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 includes a rich set of metrics and reports that give you the tools you need to analyze and optimize your API.
- Call logging by user, method, error and response time
- Pre-configured reports and dashboards
- Custom detail and consolidated reports
- Uptime, performance and availability monitoring
Insight to your business:
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.
- 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
Key developer and community tool features include:
