Viewing API economy insights dashboard

The API economy insights dashboard includes widgets that you can use to analyze the API performance in terms of collaboration and API view trends.

About this task

The API economy insights dashboard is available for users with the API administrator, API provider, and API partner roles. Users with the API partner role can only view the analytics of the APIs that they own. For information about API partner capabilities, see API partner isolation.

Procedure

  1. Expand the menu options and select Dashboard.
  2. In API economy dashboard, select Insights.
    The widgets of the dashboard appear for the last seven days, by default.
    Widget Description
    API Displays the number of APIs available in your Developer Portal instance.
    Application Displays the number of applications available in your Developer Portal instance.
    Topic Displays the number of topics available in your Developer Portal instance.
    Top 5 APIs by view Displays the first five most-viewed APIs and the number of times that they were viewed.
    Top 5 APIs by followers Displays a pie chart that lists the first five most-followed APIs. The pie chart represents each API by a different color in the pie chart. The legend below the chart provides the API names corresponding to each color. You can hover over the different sections of the pie chart to see the count of followers for each of these APIs.
    API view trend Displays a graph that indicates the API views for the selected period. The view trend graph has the API view time in the x axis and views count in the y axis.
    Top 5 APIs by tryout Displays the first five APIs based on the maximum number of tries with try out count for each API.
    API tryout distribution Displays a pie chart to indicate the try-out counts of APIs. The pie chart represents each API by a different color in the pie chart. The legend below the pie chart provides the API names corresponding to each color. You can hover over the different sections of the chart to see the try out count of each API.
    Application request trend Displays a graph that indicates the application requests for APIs during the selected period with application requested time in the x axis and number of requests in the y axis.
    Top 5 APIs by discussions Displays the first five APIs based on the maximum number of discussions and number of discussions for each API.
    Top 5 consumers by discussions Displays the first five consumers based on the maximum number of discussions and number of customers for each API.
  3. Optional: View the analytics for an alternative period:
    • Click the date filter to select an alternative period and click Apply.
    • Click Custom provide a date range that is not available in the catalog and click Apply.

      The analytics for the selected period appears.