API Analytics
You can filter, sort, and aggregate your API event data, and then present the results within correlated charts, tables, and maps to help you manage service levels, set quotas, establish controls, set up security policies, manage communities, and analyze trends.
![[V5.0.7 or later]](../buildfiles/icon_v507.jpg){kind=icon}
API analytics is built on the Kibana V5.1 open source analytics and
visualization platform, which is designed to work with the Elasticsearch real-time distributed search and
analytics engine.
![[V5.0.6 and earlier]](../buildfiles/icon_v506_earlier.jpg){kind=icon}
API analytics is built on the Kibana V4.3 open source analytics and
visualization platform, which is designed to work with the Elasticsearch real-time distributed search and
analytics engine.
Use the following tasks to configure and manage analytics: