A list of the most important API metrics every API product manager and engineer should know, especially when you are looking into API analytics and reporting.
Identifying Key API Metrics
Each team needs to track different
KPIs
when it comes to APIs. The API metrics important to infrastructure teams will be different than what API metrics are important to API product or API platform teams. Metrics can also be dependent on where the API is in the product lifecycle.
An API recently launched will focus more on improving design and usage while sacrificing reliability and backward compatibility. A team that maintains an API that’s been widely adopted by enterprise teams may focus more on driving additional feature adoption per account and give precedence to reliability and backward compatibility over design.
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