Maintenance

You’re now in the last stage of the API life cycle. This is the stage where you make sure that your API is continuously running without disturbances. Of all the activities at this stage, the one where you’ll spend the most time will be analyzing how users interact with your API. Analytics is where you understand who your users are, what they’re doing, whether they’re being successful, and if not, how you can help them succeed. The information you gather will help you identify features that you should keep, the ones that you should improve, and the ones that you should shut down. But analytics is not limited to usage. You can also obtain performance, security, and even business metrics. For example, with analytics, you can identify the customers who interact with the top features of your API and understand how much revenue is being generated. That information can tell you whether the investment in those top features is paying off. You can also...