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About API Products
API Products bundles and manages multiple services. Each API product consists of at least one API product version, and each API product version is connected to a Gateway service. You can document your services and publish API products to a Dev Portal for consumption.
API Products Dashboard
The API Products Dashboard is the place to manage API products, versions, and documentation. The dashboard is available by clicking any API product within the API Products dashboard.
Here are some of the things you can do from the API Products Dashboard:
- Configure an API product
- Publish an API product to the Dev Portal
- Manage API product versions.
- View traffic, error, and latency data.
| Item | Description |
|---|---|
| Overview | Analytics data for the API product. You can configure the analytics options using the Analytics tool. |
| Product Versions | This section displays the status of an API product version. From the context menu you can Delete an API product version, or use the View Details button to navigate to that version’s dashboard. |
| Documentation | You can add and edit markdown documentation for your API product, upload API specs, and manage the publishing status for each document. |
Note: API products can only be published to the Dev Portal in the geographic region you currently have selected. To publish to a Dev Portal in a different region, switch geos using the control in the bottom-left corner of Kong Konnect.
API product versions
A Konnect API product version is linked to a Gateway service inside a control plane. As such, the configurations or plugins that are associated with the Gateway service are also associated with the API product version.
API products can have multiple API product versions, and each version can be linked to a Gateway service. API products can be made available in multiple environments by linking API product versions to Gateway services in different control planes. You can also associate an API spec with a product version and make the spec accessible in the Dev Portal.
A common use case is environment specialization.
For example, if you have three control planes for development, staging, and
production, you can manage which environment the API product version is available in by
linking an API product version to a Gateway service in that control plane. You might have v1 running
in production, and be actively working on v2 in development. Once it’s
ready to test, you’d create v2 in staging before finally creating v2 in
production alongside v1.
Analytics
The analytics dashboard shown in the API product Overview is a high level overview of traffic, error, and latency for the API product. These reports are generated automatically based on the traffic to the API product.
Learn more:
Documentation
Manage your API product’s documentation directly within the Documentation section of the API Product dashboard. After uploading documentation, you can edit it seamlessly from the Konnect dashboard. Documentation is accessible after the API product is published. Learn more:
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More information
- Deploy and Test a Service - Learn how to deploy and test a service with Gateway Manager.
- Productize a Service - Learn how to productize a service with API Products.
