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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Adoption tracking

Adoption metrics are measurements that show how much customers use or adopt a product or service. In the context of APIs, adoption metrics can help a company understand how its API is being used and how effective it is at meeting the needs of customers.

The following screenshot shows the two key adoption metrics that are important to track for business stakeholders:

Figure 12.3 – Key adoption metrics for business stakeholders

By keeping track of adoption metrics on a regular basis, an API company can see how its API is used and how well it works. This lets the company make smart decisions to drive growth and improve the product. You will learn more about measuring software development kit (SDK) and feature adoption in the sections that follow.

SDK adoption

SDK adoption metrics track how often developers use an SDK from an API company to build integrations with the API. Some examples of SDK adoption metrics for APIs include...