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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

Creating API documentation

The first thing a customer needs to start working with APIs is a set of documentation that introduces and educates them about the features and functionality of the APIs. Once they are ready to start exploring the APIs further, they should be able to generate API credentials they can use to start making their first API calls. To make this process self-serve, the documentation and developer portal must be designed in a thoughtful manner. In this section, you will learn about the various components that are available on a developer portal to aid a developer’s journey from discovery to consideration, integration and testing, launch, and operational support, such as API references, the developer portal, API status pages, and the changelog, as well as integration guides and tutorials.

API references

API references are documentation that provides information about the methods, parameters, and other elements of an API. This is usually provided in the...