Getting Started

Here you will find all the information about the features of Sensedia API Management.

What is an API management platform?

Sensedia API Management is a powerful tool that accelerates the design, integration, exposure, and monitoring of APIs. It provides business insights combined with layers of security, analytics, scalability, governance, and much more.

Watch the video below to better understand what an API Management platform is:

Inside API Management

The Sensedia API Management menu is organized around three stages of the API lifecycle:

Design: creation and editing of APIs.
Consumption: deployment of APIs and definition of applications and tokens enabled to access them.
Analysis: visualization of metrics for the deployed APIs.

Clicking the links will take you to detailed documentation about the described features.

API Design

The API creation process starts in API Design > API Catalog.
Read the APIs documentation to learn about the supported API types and how to create or import APIs into your Manager.

When creating an API, security policies, traffic control, observability, and transformation are defined using interceptors.
You can view the available interceptors and create custom ones in API Design > Interceptors.

Additionally, when creating the API, you define resources and operations and specify the backend that will provide response information.
You can also use connectors to communicate directly with some non-HTTP protocols.

Read the API Connectors documentation to learn how to configure connectors and link them to your APIs.
To better understand the interceptors you can add to your APIs' flow, check out the Interceptors documentation.

API Consumption

The API consumption process starts at API Design > Plans.
Access the Plans documentation to understand how API consumption plans work.

In the Consumers menu, you can create:

Apps that consume your APIs;
Access Tokens for registered applications.

In Virtual Hosts, you configure the deployment environments for your APIs:

On the Inbound Addresses screen, you define the URL protocol and security;
In the Environments screen, you can create different environments to deploy your APIs;
In Certificates, you configure the certificate for HTTP inbound addresses.

Metrics Analysis

In the Trace and Health menu, you check data about the requests. Access:

General Trace to monitor calls;
Health Checks to check if a particular HTTP resource is working correctly.