Accessing and configuring analytics

Monitor the usage and performance of API calls by using the analytics feature to view, filter, sort, and aggregate your API event data.

From the analytics view of the Cloud Manager UI, you can monitor the usage of your published APIs. API events from all catalogs, spaces, and organizations are captured and displayed together in the Cloud Manager analytics view. For more information about the features of the analytics view, see Viewing analytics data in Cloud Manager.

API event records

An API event is logged each time an API operation is invoked on the gateway. The API event record contains information about the API call. When an analytics service is associated with a gateway, all API invocations on that gateway are captured as API event records and sent to the analytics service. The content of the record depends on the logging policy that is set for the operation. For more information about the fields that are displayed in an API event record, see API event record fields.

Analytics configuration options

API Connect offers many configuration options to customize data collection, storage, and retention. For example, you can define filters that refine data to add or remove fields before they are stored. You can choose to offload some, or all, of the data to a third-party storage system. For more information about the analytics configuration options, see Advanced configuration options