The gateway generates API event data for every API invocation and forwards this data to
its associated analytics service. The captured event data can be viewed in the Cloud Manager UI, API Manager UI, from the toolkit CLI/REST API, or
offloaded to third-party systems.
You can view API event data within
API Connect in the following
ways:
- The Analytics view of the Cloud
Manager UI, which is accessed by clicking
in the navigation
pane. API event data across all organizations, catalogs, and spaces is presented on
dashboards. Each dashboard contains a set of related visualizations that
depict analytics data as a graphical or metric representation, see Cloud Manager analytics view
- The Analytics view of the API Manager UI, which is accessed
by clicking .
Analytics data for each Catalog or Space is collected into
dashboards. Each dashboard contains a set of related visualizations that
depict analytics data as a graphical or metric representation. Dashboards are provided for viewing
analytics data for APIs, Plans, Products, Catalogs and Spaces.
For more information about accessing and working with the API event data shown in API, Plan, and
Product dashboards, see Managing your
Products.
- By using the debug function for the integrated test tool that is provided in the API Manager user interface.
The
debug function is typically used to view information about the API configuration in order to
identify possible causes for an API invocation failure.
- Using the toolkit CLI
or REST API: Using the analytics toolkit CLI
API consumers who are members of a consumer organization can also view analytics data within
dashboard views in the Developer Portal user
interface. The dashboard views depict API invocation metrics about the APIs used either by a single
application or within the entire consumer organization. For more information about accessing the
analytics data for APIs that are invoked by developer applications, see Analytics in
the Developer Portal.