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API Connect
An enterprise-grade platform for creating, securing, managing, sharing, monetizing, and analyzing custom APIs located on-premises and on the cloud.
- Date of last update: 02/28/2023
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Summary
IBM API Connect is a comprehensive, end-to-end API management solution for creating, securing, managing, sharing, monetizing, and analyzing APIs located on cloud and on-premises.
The Reserved Instance plan provides a dedicated, multi-zone high availability deployment of API Connect v10 that leverages core IBM Cloud services for common tasks like identity management, monitoring, auditing, and logging. It includes the management, gateway, analytics, and portal server components of API Connect, as well as tools for registering and managing existing gateways located on-premises and on third-party clouds.
The Lite (free) and Enterprise (pay-as-you-go) plans utilize a multi-tenant, public cloud deployment of API Connect v5.
Features and capabilities
Intuitive API development and testing tools
Create custom APIs that expose the full capabilities of your applications to developers both inside and outside of your organization. Thoroughly test your APIs before deployment
Powerful security policies
Easily apply out-of-the-box and custom gateway policies to secure and govern the use of APIs, ultimately protecting your back-end data and services
API lifecycle management
Manage the full lifecycle of your internal, external, and third party APIs. Easily publish, replace, supercede, migrate, deprecate, and retire your APIs
Self-service developer portal
Bundle APIs into products to share with others developers via a fully-customizable, self-service portal. Use built-in blogs, forums, and messaging to communicate with API consumers
Analytics dashboards
Filter, sort, and aggregate your API usage and performance data. Use correlated charts, tables, and maps to manage service levels, set quotas, establish controls, set up security policies, manage communities, and analyze trends
Getting support
If you're experiencing issues with this product, go to the IBM Cloud Support Center and navigate to creating a case. Use the All products option to search for this product to continue creating the case or to find more information about getting support. Third party and community supported products might direct you to a support process outside of IBM Cloud.