API management
SAP API Management (part of Integration Suite) publishes, secures, and monitors APIs, turning backend services into managed, governed APIs for internal and external consumers.
Use API Management when you expose APIs to many consumers (internal or external/partners) and need security, governance, throttling and analytics, rather than point-to-point calls.
- API Management puts a managed layer in front of APIs: it applies security policies (authentication, rate limiting), transforms and…
- API proxies fronting backend services.
- Policies: security, rate limiting, transformation.
- Watch out: Wrong tool for the integration style.
What API Management does
API Management puts a managed layer in front of APIs: it applies security policies (authentication, rate limiting), transforms and routes calls, provides a developer portal for consumers, and monitors usage and performance. It lets you expose SAP (and other) APIs safely and at scale.
Key aspects
- API proxies fronting backend services.
- Policies: security, rate limiting, transformation.
- Developer portal for API consumers.
- Analytics & monitoring of API usage.
When to use it
Use API Management when you expose APIs to many consumers (internal or external/partners) and need security, governance, throttling and analytics, rather than point-to-point calls. It is key to a scalable, secure API strategy.
Common pitfalls
- Wrong tool for the integration style.
- Ignoring monitoring/error handling.
- Point-to-point instead of governed integration.