Application programming interfaces, or APIs, connect software applications and data sources to one another. Given the breadth of their reach, it’s wise for organizations to engage in proactive API management, which keeps APIs running reliably and securely.

API management incorporates many different tasks and processes. It spans API creation and API publishing and continues through the full API lifecycle through retirement. API management also involves monitoring APIs for performance and adherence to service level agreements, or SLAs.

An API management tool typically handles these tasks, as well as functions like API security policy definition and enforcement, API configuration management, and the analysis of API usage statistics.

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