You're reading from API Analytics for Product Managers Understand key API metrics that can help you grow your business

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803247656

Length 344 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

REST API

Author (1):

Deepa Goyal

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:The API Landscape

2. Chapter 1: API as a Product FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: API Product Management

4. Chapter 3: API Life Cycle and Maturity

5. Chapter 4: Building and Managing API Products

6. Chapter 5: Growth for API Products

7. Chapter 6: Support Models for API Products

8. Part 2: Understanding the Developer

9. Chapter 7: Walking in the Customer’s Shoes

10. Chapter 8: Customer Expectations and Goals

11. Chapter 9: Components of API Experience

12. Part 3: Deep Dive into Key Metrics for API Products

13. Chapter 10: Infrastructure Metrics

14. Chapter 11: API Product Metrics

15. Chapter 12: Business Metrics

16. Part 4: Setting a Cohesive Analytics Strategy

17. Chapter 13: Drawing the Big Picture with Data

18. Chapter 14: Keeping Metrics Honest

19. Chapter 15: Counter Metrics to Avoid Blind Spots

20. Chapter 16: Decision-Making with Data

21. The API Analytics Cheat Sheet

22. Index

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Industry standards for API experience

Over the years, many companies building API products have organically converged on a set of standardized documentation patterns and tools that they provide to their customers to learn about their APIs. Although there isn’t a specific list or guide to building API experience components, there are best practices that have been established by the leaders in the space.

API documentation starts with an API reference, which is often made directly from API specifications. There are additional components such as a sandbox, a command-line interface (CLI), software development kits (SDKs), Postman Collections, and so on to aid in the developer’s journey. In addition to tools that help developers get started with using your APIs, there are also tools that are focused on existing customers who might be looking at the API documentation to diagnose a problem with their integration or make enhancements to their existing integration.

There...