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API Analytics for Product Managers

By : Deepa Goyal
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API Analytics for Product Managers

By: Deepa Goyal

Overview of this book

APIs are crucial in the modern market as they allow faster innovation. But have you ever considered your APIs as products for revenue generation? API Analytics for Product Managers takes you through the benefits of efficient researching, strategizing, marketing, and continuously measuring the effectiveness of your APIs to help grow both B2B and B2C SaaS companies. Once you've been introduced to the concept of an API as a product, this fast-paced guide will show you how to establish metrics for activation, retention, engagement, and usage of your API products, as well as metrics to measure the reach and effectiveness of documentation—an often-overlooked aspect of development. Of course, it's not all about the product—as any good product manager knows; you need to understand your customers’ needs, expectations, and satisfaction too. Once you've gathered your data, you’ll need to be able to derive actionable insights from it. This is where the book covers the advanced concepts of leading and lagging metrics, removing bias from the metric-setting process, and bringing metrics together to establish long- and short-term goals. By the end of this book, you'll be perfectly placed to apply product management methodologies to the building and scaling of revenue-generating APIs.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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The API Analytics Cheat Sheet

Part 3: Deep Dive into Key Metrics for API Products

The goal of any product is to drive value for its customers. If customers can discover your product, easily understand the utility it provides, and start using it effectively in a way that they find valuable, your product has successfully achieved its goal.

In Part 1, you learned about the roles and responsibilities of an API product manager and how to build, grow, maintain, and support APIs as products. In Part 2, you learned about the developer journey and how the consumers of API products discover, evaluate, integrate, test, and measure the APIs they consume. Now that you have a deep understanding of the customer, you can start to think about metrics that can measure various aspects of a product across producers and consumers. You will learn to manage APIs methodically and learn about the levers you have to improve these metrics so that your product can be successful.