Easy creation of API products with built-in comprehensive lifecycle management and governance
A UI to facilitate full-lifecycle API management
API manager user interface in IBM API Connect® helps you organize, publish and analyze any API across the API lifecycle. It provides capabilities for governance, versioning and full control over visibility across consumers, whether internal or external.
How API Manager works
Everything you need to manage private internal and public external APIs.
APIs are packaged into one or more products, each of which can contain different plans with their own quotas and rate limits. API providers manage the availability and visibility of API Products and plans with ease, effectively managing the APIs through all stages of their lifecycle and providing a seamless experience to application developers.
IBM API Connect uses Catalogs and Spaces so API providers have a way to offer isolation and autonomy for internal teams, while managing governance of all APIs from one central interface. API provider teams stage Products to Catalogs or Spaces, and then publish to an associated developer portal for external delivery.
API providers can control user access to provider organizations through fine-grained roles and permissions. They can also manage the consumer organizations that sign up to access their APIs. Developer communities can additionally be created as a way of grouping together a collection of consumer organizations to whom a particular set of Products and Plans can be made available.
API manager offers out-of-the-box dashboards and customizable views to filter, sort and aggregate API data, so you can identify trends and gain insights into your API business.
APIs are packaged into one or more products, each of which can contain different plans with their own quotas and rate limits. API providers manage the availability and visibility of API Products and plans with ease, effectively managing the APIs through all stages of their lifecycle and providing a seamless experience to application developers.
IBM API Connect uses Catalogs and Spaces so API providers have a way to offer isolation and autonomy for internal teams, while managing governance of all APIs from one central interface. API provider teams stage Products to Catalogs or Spaces, and then publish to an associated developer portal for external delivery.
API providers can control user access to provider organizations through fine-grained roles and permissions. They can also manage the consumer organizations that sign up to access their APIs. Developer communities can additionally be created as a way of grouping together a collection of consumer organizations to whom a particular set of Products and Plans can be made available.
API manager offers out-of-the-box dashboards and customizable views to filter, sort and aggregate API data, so you can identify trends and gain insights into your API business.
Resources
Learn to manage your APIs for private internal APIs and public external APIs in API Manager.
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