API Management
Complete API lifecycle management platform enabling secure exposure, governance, and monetization of digital services across the enterprise with comprehensive developer experience and operational excellence.
API Management Architecture
Detailed view showing components, connections, and data flow
Core Components
Supporting Services
Data Flow
Security Boundary
API Management Features
Comprehensive API lifecycle management capabilities designed for enterprise-scale digital transformation
API Design & Types
Create and manage diverse API types with comprehensive design tools
- ✓Create REST APIs (including from OpenAPI specifications)
- ✓GraphQL API design and schema management
- ✓Streaming APIs (WebSocket, WebSub/WebHook, Server-Sent Events)
- ✓Expose SOAP services as REST endpoints
- ✓AI API integration and management
- ✓API prototypes and mocking capabilities
- ✓API Products and versioning
- ✓API revisions and lifecycle management
- ✓Endpoint resiliency and high availability
- ✓Documentation generation and collaboration tools
Security & Authentication
Comprehensive security framework with multiple authentication methods
- ✓OAuth2/OIDC with JWT access tokens
- ✓Multiple grant types and scopes management
- ✓API Keys and certificate-based authentication
- ✓Mutual TLS (mTLS) support
- ✓Basic Authentication integration
- ✓Certificate-bound tokens
- ✓Token revocation, expiry, and persistence
- ✓Threat protection (regex, JSON, XML validation)
- ✓Role-based access control (RBAC) with XACML
- ✓Open Policy Agent (OPA) policy validation
- ✓Schema validation and security enforcement
Rate Limiting & QoS
Advanced traffic management and quality of service controls
- ✓Throttling policies (application/subscription/custom)
- ✓Access control and rate limiting
- ✓Backend throughput limits
- ✓Distributed burst control
- ✓GraphQL query limits (depth and complexity)
- ✓Streaming API rate limiting
- ✓AI API usage controls
- ✓Response caching at the gateway
- ✓Dynamic rate adjustment
- ✓SLA-based throttling policies
Gateways & Deployment
Flexible deployment options across multiple gateway environments
- ✓Universal Gateway with policies and caching
- ✓Environment-specific deployments and scaling
- ✓Multi-gateway deployment strategies
- ✓Custom hostname and domain management
- ✓Federated gateways (AWS API Gateway integration)
- ✓Developer Portal publishing
- ✓Multi-portal publishing capabilities
- ✓AWS import and migration tools
- ✓Cloud-native deployment patterns
- ✓Kubernetes operator support
Developer Portal & Consumption
Self-service developer experience with comprehensive tooling
- ✓API discovery with advanced search
- ✓Marketplace Assistant for API recommendations
- ✓Application management and lifecycle
- ✓Automated key generation and management
- ✓Access token provisioning
- ✓Application sharing and collaboration
- ✓Subscription workflows and approvals
- ✓Integrated API consoles (REST/GraphQL)
- ✓SOAP client integration
- ✓Postman collection generation
- ✓Multi-language SDK generation
- ✓AI-powered API Chat assistance
Monetization & B2B
Built-in monetization capabilities for API business models
- ✓Built-in API monetization platform
- ✓Usage-based pricing models
- ✓Subscription tier management
- ✓Revenue tracking and analytics
- ✓B2B consumption pattern analysis
- ✓Federated authentication for partners
- ✓Enterprise billing integration
- ✓Partner marketplace capabilities
- ✓Revenue sharing mechanisms
- ✓Cost management and optimization
Governance
Enterprise governance with automated compliance and validation
- ✓Ruleset catalog and management
- ✓Automated rule validator
- ✓CI/CD-driven governance workflows
- ✓Governance CLI tools
- ✓API definition linting and validation
- ✓Compliance reporting and auditing
- ✓Policy-as-code implementation
- ✓Standards enforcement
- ✓Quality gates and approvals
- ✓Governance metrics and dashboards
Analytics & Observability
Comprehensive monitoring and analytics with enterprise integrations
- ✓Choreo-based analytics with RBAC
- ✓Real-time alerts and monitoring
- ✓Proxy mode analytics
- ✓ELK Stack integration (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
- ✓Datadog and OpenSearch integrations
- ✓Custom analytics events publishing
- ✓Access, audit, and correlation logs
- ✓API and WebSocket logging
- ✓Distributed tracing (OpenTracing/OpenTelemetry)
- ✓Metrics collection (Prometheus/JMX)
- ✓Performance monitoring and APM
- ✓Business intelligence dashboards
Extensibility & Customization
Flexible platform with extensive customization capabilities
- ✓Product REST APIs (Publisher, Dev Portal, Admin)
- ✓Gateway and Service Catalog APIs
- ✓DevOps and Governance APIs
- ✓Custom key and gateway extensions
- ✓Workflow customization
- ✓Custom grant types and handlers
- ✓Single Sign-On (SSO) integration
- ✓Deep portal theming capabilities
- ✓UI customization framework
- ✓Plugin and middleware support
Administration & Platform
Enterprise-grade platform management and administration
- ✓Multitenancy support and isolation
- ✓User and role management
- ✓User store management and integration
- ✓Multiple gateway setup and configuration
- ✓External Key Manager integrations
- ✓WSO2 IS, Keycloak, Okta, Auth0 support
- ✓PingFederate and Azure AD integration
- ✓GDPR compliance and data protection
- ✓Security hardening and best practices
- ✓Backup and disaster recovery
AI Gateway (for AI/LLM APIs)
Specialized gateway for AI and Large Language Model APIs
- ✓Backend security for AI services
- ✓Per-model rate limiting and controls
- ✓Multi-model routing with load balancing
- ✓Automatic failover for AI services
- ✓Vendor management with connectors
- ✓Default and custom AI connectors
- ✓Prompt management and templates
- ✓Prompt decorators and enhancement
- ✓AI guardrails with regex validation
- ✓JSON schema validation for AI responses
- ✓PII masking and data protection
- ✓Content safety and filtering
Enables Architectural Patterns
Microservice Architecture
Independent, deployable services aligned to business domains, communicating via APIs, events, or streams.
Clean Architecture
Domain‑centric, dependency‑inversion style family emphasizing concentric layers (entities, use cases, interfaces) and the Dependency Rule.
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What it delivers
A comprehensive platform that transforms your services into managed API products. API management enables API-first digital transformation by providing the control plane, runtime, and developer experience for designing, publishing, securing, and operating APIs as products. From design to retirement, every API gets professional-grade security, monitoring, and developer experience - enabling innovation while maintaining control.
Core Responsibilities
- API gateway runtime with policy enforcement and traffic management
- Developer portal with self-service onboarding and documentation
- API lifecycle management: design, versioning, deployment, deprecation
- Security policy orchestration and threat protection
- Analytics, monitoring, and consumer insights
- API governance, compliance, and quality assurance
API Design & Lifecycle Management
- Contract-first design with OpenAPI, GraphQL, and AsyncAPI standards
- Graphical and declarative API design with OpenAPI/AsyncAPI support
- Version management with backward compatibility validation
- Lifecycle states: draft → published → deprecated → retired
- Contract-first development with mock servers and testing
- Automated CI/CD integration with quality gates
- Schema validation, contract testing, and breaking change detection
Gateway & Traffic Management
- High-performance request routing and intelligent load balancing
- Authentication, authorization, and fine-grained access control (OAuth2, OIDC, mTLS)
- Rate limiting, quotas, throttling, and traffic shaping
- Response caching, transformation, and content negotiation
- Dynamic rate limiting and throttling with burst protection
- Circuit breakers and failover for resilience
- Multi-region deployment with global traffic management
Security & Policy Enforcement
- Zero-trust security with mutual TLS and service-to-service authentication
- OAuth2, JWT, API keys, and mutual TLS authentication
- Fine-grained RBAC and scope-based access control
- API threat protection: injection attacks, DDoS, bot mitigation
- Request/response transformation and validation
- Data privacy enforcement with PII detection and masking
- Threat protection: SQL injection, XXE, DDoS mitigation
- Compliance frameworks: PCI-DSS, GDPR, SOX, HIPAA support
- Policy-as-code with version control and audit trails
Developer Experience & Portal
- Self-service developer portals with interactive documentation
- API catalog with search, filtering, and recommendations
- Interactive API documentation with try-it-out functionality
- SDK generation and code samples in multiple languages
- Sandbox environments and try-it-now capabilities
- Self-service API key management and subscription workflows
- API discovery and catalog with search and filtering
- Developer onboarding journeys and getting-started guides
- Community features: forums, feedback, and support integration
Monetization & Business Models
- Flexible subscription tiers and usage-based pricing
- Pay-per-call, freemium, and enterprise licensing options
- Billing integration with Stripe, PayPal, and enterprise systems
- Usage analytics and revenue optimization insights
- Partner marketplace and revenue sharing capabilities
Analytics & Business Intelligence
- Real-time dashboards with API performance metrics
- Consumer behavior analytics and adoption tracking
- API usage analytics and consumer behavior insights
- Error analysis with root cause identification
- Predictive analytics for capacity planning
- Custom reports and automated alerting
- AI-powered insights for API optimization
- Business metrics correlation with technical performance data
Governance & Enterprise Scale
- Multi-tenant architecture with organizational isolation
- Centralized governance with delegated workspace management
- Policy templates and standardization frameworks
- Audit trails and compliance reporting
- Role-based administration and approval workflows
- Enterprise SSO and directory integration
MCP Hub & Server Management
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) server registry and discovery
- MCP hub for centralized protocol server management
- Dynamic MCP server routing and load balancing
- Protocol version negotiation and compatibility management
- MCP server health monitoring and automatic failover
- Resource and tool exposure management across MCP servers
- Context sharing and state management between MCP sessions
- MCP server authentication and authorization policies
Architecture Patterns
- Centralized vs. distributed gateway patterns
- Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) with client-specific APIs
- API composition and aggregation patterns
- Event-driven APIs with webhooks and AsyncAPI
- Service mesh integration for zero-trust networking
- Multi-cloud and hybrid API deployment strategies
- Microgateway and distributed deployment models
- Zero-trust architecture with service mesh integration
Integration Patterns
- REST API with HATEOAS and resource-based design
- GraphQL APIs with schema federation and subscriptions
- gRPC services with Protocol Buffers and streaming
- WebSocket and Server-Sent Events for real-time APIs
- Async messaging integration with queues and topics
- Legacy system adaptation with protocol translation
- Event-driven APIs with webhooks and streaming
AI & Advanced Integration
- AI gateway for LLM API management and cost control
- Intelligent request routing and performance optimization
- Automated API documentation generation
- Anomaly detection and predictive maintenance
- Event streaming integration for real-time APIs
- Kubernetes operators and cloud-native deployment
Monitoring & Observability
- Distributed tracing across API calls with OpenTelemetry
- Real-time metrics: throughput, latency, error rates, and SLA compliance
- Performance monitoring with APM integration
- Alert management for SLA breaches and anomaly detection
Tech Examples
- Enterprise: WSO2 API Manager, Apigee, Azure API Management, IBM API Connect
- Cloud-native: Kong Gateway, Ambassador, Istio Gateway, AWS API Gateway
- WSO2 Choreo (cloud-native API management)
- Open source: Tyk, Gravitee, KrakenD, Zuul
- Service mesh: Istio, Linkerd, Consul Connect
- Documentation: Swagger UI, Redoc, Postman, Insomnia
KPIs/SLIs/SLOs
- Developer adoption: time-to-first-successful-call < 15 minutes
- API performance: P50/P95/P99 latency, throughput, and availability (99.9%+)
- Business impact: revenue per API and partner onboarding velocity
- Developer experience: time-to-first-call, API adoption rate, developer satisfaction
- Security metrics: threat detection rate, policy violation counts, vulnerability MTTR
- Security posture: zero security incidents and policy compliance
- Governance compliance: API standards adherence, documentation coverage, test coverage
- Operational efficiency: deployment frequency and change success rate