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IBM API Connect contains a lot of important information about your API estate. Up to now that information was surfaced through extensive REST APIs which could be polled to retrieve any desired information. However, polling is not event-driven, in the modern market it is common to have a variety...
Some customers have advanced resiliency requirements and so have two data centers serving API Connect traffic. These are commonly in one of two patterns: cold standby or warm standby. In both scenarios it is common to have a separate gateway service in each data center. A gateway service can...
API Connect analytics stores the API event data for all the API calls to the gateway. This can amount to a large amount of data, especially if payload logging is enabled or you are using a long data retention policy. As the amount of data stored in analytics grows it has an impact on the system...
1. Configure the TLS Server Profile As mTLS is handled at the handshake level you will mostly need to configure it for all APIs on the same hostname and enable it through the TLS Server profile mapped to a specific hostname. In API Connect Reserved Instance you can do this through the RI...
Introduction Since v10.0.5, API events sent to Analytics are written to a back-end OpenSearch and stored in indices. An OpenSearch index is composed of shards. These shards are distributed across the nodes in the OpenSearch cluster. Each document in an index is stored in the shards of that...
Introduction APIs are the driving force behind digital transformation. Building platform business models is the one way of accomplishing this. Rightly so, API (Business) Platforms have gained prominence for all the good reasons. Businesses are building new digital...
This is the first blog in a series where we will be highlighting innovative features from IBM API Connect. AutoTest Assist IBM API Connect AutoTest Assist simplifies and accelerates API testing by automating the testing process and detecting errors. AutoTest Assist provides valuable...
"API-led connectivity" is one of those phrases that has been generating significant buzz recently, yet many people are unsure what it truly means. Let's quickly delve into its definition and significance. API-led connectivity is a modern way to integrate applications and data through...