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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Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the components of API experiences across documentation and developer tools that you can consider offering to your customers. In the early phases of launching your APIs, it’s possible that you only provide a subset of this vast set of tools, but over time, you can learn about the needs of your customer base to improve and expand your API experiences.

The starting point of API experience for any API is a simple API reference. Once you begin with API references in the beta phase, you can learn from your customers and invest in building more tools to enhance the experience. As your API matures, you can invest in tools that make the API experience richer.

A great API experience with good documentation, developer tools, a sandbox, Postman Collections, support resources, SDKs, and so on can help customers easily understand how to use the API and get started with their own projects, saving them time and effort. Overall, a great API experience...