Apigee Valuable Features
Some of the essential aspects that organizations consider when selecting a product like ETG, which offers tracing tools, bug tracking, AI capabilities, scalability, and performance-related features, include strong community support. Having a robust community can be invaluable for finding solutions to various problems, especially during migrations and other challenges. Large companies tend to favor such products because of their established user communities and excellent support. While there may be alternative products with advanced API management features, they often fall short in terms of the support they provide, making products like Apigee a preferred choice.
View full review »The most important feature is the security capabilities and the way it integrates very quickly with other security providers. We have integrated it with Azure and it integrates quite seamlessly. Other valuable features include the API management and monitoring.
View full review »The most valuable features of Apigee for me are analytics, security, ease of use, and integration capabilities. Additionally, built-in cache, Key-Value Maps, and Q-value mappings enhance performance and flexibility.
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Apigee
April 2024
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The solution offers the best API management in the world. They have a lot of features. Their capchaing is very good.
The security that you have with Apigee is very good and aligns with compliance. It’s easy to manage in the development kit or tool you have to create, and that process is very easy to create, and the metrics you can get from the traffic of Apigee are excellent as well.
The solution offers an advantage over other kinds of API management. I don't want to select one, however, as no one is not going to be your silver bullet for solving a problem. However, in terms of my favorite aspect, the capchaing is excellent due to the time of response with Apigee. It’s about one millisecond, and that time is very remarkable for a client.
It’s easy to set up.
They have all the features needed to create good API management.
It’s a stable product.
The solution can scale.
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reviewer1859076
Senior Software Engineering Manager & Directector of Architecture at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Items around the mobilization of the API interface and the ability to automate validations for our APIs are the most valuable aspects.
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reviewer2324469
Chief Software Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
We find great value in the ability to segregate distinct projects within the system and extract security statistics. Its flexibility allows seamless management of different products, showcasing scalability to handle extensive solutions. Whether dealing with hundreds or thousands of nickel services, this configuration enables us to sustain ongoing work effectively, ensuring real and efficient management of diverse IT projects.
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Ganesan Thangapandian
Senior Technical Architect at ManuLife Financial
The analytics feature is quite good. We can look at all the statistics, how many requests coming in, how many requests going out, what type of failures are happening, what is the performance of the APIs on those features. The solution helps us to track whenever there is an issue that comes in.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Apigee is its simplicity of deploying an API and restricting access, like rate limit, with the API.
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Pietro Dell'Erba
Head of API at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The usability is one of the best aspects of the product. It's broadly used in different functional areas. There is no specific one. It's used broadly almost in all the contexts that we have.
It's easy to set up.
Technical support is helpful and responsive.
The stability is great.
View full review »The solution is quite strong in security. It provides integrations, OAuth mechanisms, and token-based integrations. We have integrated some identity providers. We can customize the dashboard. The tool provides a lot of custom monitoring dashboards. We can track the API usage analytics. Apigee gives us a lot of parameters to track.
We can decide what to turn on or off and build the dashboards accordingly. We have built an analytics dashboard. We have built dashboards to see the usage trends, performance of the APIs, and degradation seen by API consumers. Monetization is a strong feature. We haven’t used it, though. The developer portal feature is very rich. We have also built a portal on Apigee using ReactJs. The developer portal is good.
The live tracking API feature of the product is Apigee's most valuable component.
The most valuable feature of the current version of Apigee, such as Apigee Edge, is that the maintenance and scalability of the service are not our responsibility. As a SaaS platform, Google takes care of it, ensuring the system is stable. Another valuable feature is the ability to customize the platform extensively. We can add JavaScript functionality to cater to any use case that is not available out of the box.
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reviewer1422432
Senior Software Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
The solution, overall, is quite good.
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Tolulope Adeniji
Technical Lead - Integration/Middleware at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We have been using Apigee mostly for proxy FGIs. We also use its security features as well as traffic control features.
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Tolulope Adeniji
Technical Lead - Integration/Middleware at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
One of the concepts offered with this solution is called Productization. This concept allows you to bundle the APIs together and present them to clients as products, which allows you to configure the API with restricted access for different clients. An example of this would be Client A is granted access as read-only and able to do a few updates, whereas Client B would have full access to the APIs. You can configure different products for them in such a way that one of the products would have limited access, and the other would be granted full access. You are not creating another API, rather you are using the same proxy with limited access to the proxy. This is one of the features that has helped us a lot.
We have APIs that we use internally and externally for clients outside of our network using the cloud with a SaaS solution that needs to access our API. The same API we use internally is the same API we expose externally. The level of security is different for internal applications and for external applications. To accommodate both we use the same API but add additional security features to the APIs.
View full review »The most valuable features are low-code play, quick packaging, and production.
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reviewer1728015
LÃder de Proyecto at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I think the most valuable features are the security features. Of course, the user access control is the same as the security. The other very important issue is the sandboxing capability of Apigee.
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Rajender Reddy
Software Development Manager at Reliance Jio
There are a few features that are quite interesting. We can provide our API developer with an API proxy to the developer portal, which comes in handy. There are also some interesting policies, like authentication where we normally provide any code and quotas and rate limit policies for protection. The administration and monitoring features are also quite useful as you can receive alerts and notifications and monitor them on a virtual dashboard. There are just a lot of security features in general.
With Apigee, we can easily monitor applications, and our core IT team informed me that installing upgrades is very simple. We also have a portal where we can share our proxies with the convenors, which is quite useful.
View full review »Apigee provides good documentation.
The pricing is reasonable.
Apigee's certification is beneficial.
I like the customized tools included with Aigee such as CI/CD.
Apigee integrates well with Kubernetes, Atos, Jira, Microsoft Teams, as well as ServiceNow.
View full review »The ability to convert from language to language using the same tool without needing different developer teams to deploy is a valuable feature. It doesn't require a lot of skill to run Apigee and the security features are good. This is a powerful tool for API management.
View full review »It's easy to use and the security features are valuable.
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reviewer926826
Senior Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Apigee provides out-of-the-box policies, so it is ready to use with minimal configuration to those policies. You can govern your API and manage the life cycle of the API completely with the Apigee tool.
You can use the documentation through the API portal and integrate it with the open API specification, and then design and create your API process.
When we compare Apigee with Mulesoft, we find that Mulesoft provides many out-of-box connectors to your legacy applications and it is now part of Salesforce. It was acquired by Salesforce. It has hundreds of soft connectors available and an exchange place where you can put your reusable assets. A similar kind of thing is available in Apigee as well, where developers start putting their assets which can be reused.
We have found APA management and API health monitoring valuable.
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reviewer991374
Enterprise Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
The ease of creating policies has been the most useful of the solution's features. It's a quick ramp-up time. It's easy for our support staff to implement the policies in the API management layer.
View full review »The solution is great in general. There are many categories of APIs that need to be maintained. It helps maintain and add rules to manage open banking.
The solution is stable.
The initial setup isn't too complex.
It can expand well. Google seems to be moving into the cloud more than on-premises and the cloud makes scaling easier.
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Mpho Morake
Group CEO at Mmusi Group
I simply like how you can personalize your products and put them into product categories. That's what I like the most.
View full review »The tool is one of the earliest API management products and is good. It reduces the Time To Market aspects of products.
View full review »The solution offers good customization. It's very easy to customize in general.
You can integrate with things very well.
The caching is good.
You can add basic flows with ease.
The Google CMS is a great tool.
The solution is stable.
Technical support has been decent.
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reviewer1973826
Senior Principal Architect at a real estate/law firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
The most valuable feature is the API gateway.
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Balakrishnan Vinchu
Senior Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
I like the functionality of this solution.
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Mudassir Mehmood
Managing Consultant at Systems Limited
The solution's most valuable feature is its ability to integrate APIs for various industrial sectors, including telecom, banks, and multinational companies.
View full review »The most valuable feature is monetization.
View full review »It's good for development.
We like that the solution offers easy integration.
It has a good UI and is user-friendly.
The solution scales well.
It's stable.
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Carlos Maximo Ramos
Software Architect at Caja Los Andes
The central monitoring feature is the most valuable. It also provides security for the APIs and high availability for our use cases.
Apigee is the best product in the industry in comparison to other API management solutions. It helps in fast development, which is a top point. It also supports a lot of industry standards and has excellent documentation.
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reviewer1267518
Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
I have not had the opportunity to completely explore the product's capabilities in the time that we have been using it. But I can say that the customization is really vast and it is a really good feature built into the product. I can customize different authentication methods and methods for authorization. I can also use redaction. So security is flexible to our needs and it works well.
View full review »The features I found most valuable are how the APIs are published, the whole process of finalizing the API, and then controlling it.
View full review »Apigee is relatively easy to use for developers.
View full review »One feature I found most valuable in Apigee is its simplicity. All features remain the same in all of the API tools, and I have experience with IBM API Connect and Apigee, but Apigee is easier to work with, plus the learning curve is not that steep.
Another thing I like about this solution is that the support is really good, and this gives Apigee advantage over other providers.
I like the development feature of Apigee. You will find it easier to work with Apigee than IBM API Connect.
View full review »Apigee is an easy-to-use solution.
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RajeshKumar12
General Manager at HCL Technologies
One of the best parts of this solution is the implementation as we did not need to use code or out-of-box policies. When it comes to the cloud-based architecture, there is a high level of reliability.
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Pradeep Pavuluri
Principal Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apigee is very easy to use, and you can code in any language, like JavaScript, Java, or any other language. That's really helpful. It's cloud-based, so there's no need for any installation.
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Steven Longheinrich
Executive Advisor, SOA Enterprise Services at Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield
- API gateway tool
- API developer tool
- Visualization tools to measure and manage the performance of APIs.
HA
Huzefa Ali
Application Solution Architect at DAMAC Holding Ltd.
It is easy to deploy, configure, and monitor the APA.
View full review »Apigee has proven to be one of the best of the breed. Others are attempting to innovate and are succeeding. So we don't know how innovations will be distributed, Azure, Amazon. Amazon, without a doubt, is lagging, but I've recently heard in the reinventing that they're working on a lot of API-related innovations. So you can't say that they'll be lagging behind as they are catching up.
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reviewer1092774
Digital Finance and IFRS 17 Capabilities at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
The REST API allows for faster user engagement.
The flexibility allows you to quickly run a cloud-native application architecture.
View full review »Apigee's best features are flexibility and breadth of capabilities.
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SenIT298931
Senior IT Supervisor at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
I like Apigee's automatic plates.
View full review »There is less CLI needed compared to other options. It's more user-friendly and easier to navigate.
Everything is working well. We haven't had issues.
The solution is stable and reliable.
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reviewer1511976
Sr. Solution Architeect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
This solution offers a lot of flexibility in its features. Other tools like IBM Data Power have limited capability when it comes to features like data control, VPN management and monitoring.
View full review »API/proxy lifecycle workflow for API providers is quite good and one of Apigee's strongest features. Also, like the completeness of the CLI and admin REST services, the Edge engine provides powerful, integrated analytics, which are noteworthy.
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reviewer1545807
Technical Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Many of the features available are valuable to us including out-of-the-box policies, the vacant creation, throttling and more. We are using authentication and authorization which are also good features.
View full review »The capabilities are very powerful.
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NirmitVaghela
Senior Content Writer
Apigee is a great product with good feedback and recommendations from clients.
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BrajeshDe
Director API Management and Integration at Fresh Gravity
It is easy to use from a developer perspective and a customer perspective.
It is easy to set up. It is on Google Platform, and there are multiple deployment models they support, which is great.
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reviewer915237
Director at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apigee is a pioneer in the industry and has good features and functionalities. It is a good tool for API management and it has more advancements than all other tools in the market in certain areas.
It has many features, such as flexibility, coding writing, and JavaScripting.
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reviewer1696692
Associate Vice President at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The analytics function and the developer portal are the two valuable features of Apigee. The analytics part is very good, and the developer portal is quite rich in features.
The authentication mechanisms are quite easily built into Apigee, which is something that most of the other products have also now started supporting.
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Nakul Bali
Integration Specialist at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Overall the solution works well, it is one of the best solutions on the market. There is plenty of support documentation available.
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reviewer1207650
Sr. Technology Specialist at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I like implementing different policies, for example, rate-limiting policy. We can create a custom rate-limiting policy, and we can have an application-specific rate-limiting policy. That's what we're implementing or using, and I like that feature.
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reviewer1371021
Director System Architecture at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is very easy to implement and the configuration of the API is very simple.
It is easy to upload a Swagger file and build an API.
The user interface for building APIs is very simple. Anyone with basic knowledge can build an API.
Disaster recovery capabilities are included.
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Suresh Natarajan
Principal Architect & Lead, Software Engineering at AT&T
I have found the most valuable features to be tracing a proxy, and managing proxy versions and revisions via the Edge UI component.
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Bahi MOHAMED
Risk Management & Business Continuity Manager at STC Solutions
The security provided by the solution is excellent.
It provides for an on-prem setup. That's very important for us. As the regulation of communication policies. To be able to provide the telecom companies that tool and install their products on-prem for easy management via cloud inside Saudi Arabia is great.
The solution provides very good mitigation capabilities.
MS
reviewer1105656
CEO at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
The most valuable features are scalability and technical support.
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reviewer1509828
Digital Native Product Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The developer portal is very useful to customers.
The mediation aspect of the solution is very good.
Technical support is pretty good. We are pretty happy with their service overall.
The solution is flexible and offers good customization capabilities.
In general, the product isn't too technical.
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reviewer1494684
Managing Consultant at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Apigee gives you plenty of opportunities to set up your workspace depending on how you want to manage your APIs. This is something that the majority of clients like.
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Bert Van Vugt
Founder & CDO at AppyThings
Tracing in Apigee is a very good feature.
The scalability and performance are both very good.
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reviewer1028724
Global Practice Head at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The API management on the solution is very good. It's likely the most valuable aspect of the solution for us.
The pricing is okay.
It is possible to scale the solution.
View full review »Apigee has many features in their feature bucket. When you get in touch with their sales team for sure you’ll get to know these :). Some which I liked most and which makes this product stand out are:
Developer portal
It is a Drupal-based portal for onboarding of developers and catering your API documentation. They have this feature called Smart Docs, which allows developers to not only get to know the API documentation but directly make the request and see the response. They have the ability to consume OpenAPI specs formerly know as Swagger Spec. Considering the fact that it is based on Drupal, the portal gives you damn good control on the documentation, content delivery, and developer onboarding. With a little customization, you can integrate any kind of workflow into this portal.
Monetization
Monetization is another good feature which provides a revenue model around your APIs. Many of the enterprises are looking for these kinds of options, get their offerings as API and generate revenue out of it. Apigee provides a complete end-to-end solution for monetization of your APIs. They have different revenue models and packaging models such as freemium, hit rate, revenue sharing and your custom models based on your transactions criteria. Get to know this in more details at http://docs.apigee.com/monetiz...
Analytics
This another great feature of the platform. They capture the details of all the incoming and outgoing traffic of your APIs. Based on 300+ default dimensions you can generate beautiful and insightful reports on usage and consumption of APIs. This can also be used to find out performance and errors troubleshooting. They have default reports for proxy performance, target performance, error analysis, cache performance, latency analysis, developer engagement and traffic composition. On top of these, you can generate custom reports based on the dimensions captured by Apigee.
Another feature of analytics is that you can add your own dimensions and do business analytics on top of API analytics. Being acquired by Google, we can expect that Google will add some good features around it or maybe they will push this component to Google’s analytics engine. All of the analytics data is exposed as APIs so you can consume this in your programs and develop any kind of workflows or applications around it. Dig into it at http://docs.apigee.com/analytics-services/content/analytics-services-overview.
BaaS
BaaS is based on Apache’s Usergrid, which provides a back end as a service. This is a No-SQL database and gives you ample flexibility with a RESTful interface for data storage. Apart from being a data store BaaS also has features, such as push notification, geolocation, docial graphs and RBAC user management. This is a wholistic back end for any mobile app. Get to know more on this at http://docs.apigee.com/app-ser...
View full review »I have worked on Apigee Edge and Apigee Dev Portal. Specifically, in Apigee Edge, the elements like products, developer, developer apps, and API proxies are interlinked with each other. Another special feature is configuring target servers, proxy config, and Cert related security, which regularizes incoming traffic from cloud users or external applications to internal applications in a secured manner.
View full review »The following features are most valuable: API Management, Analytics, Quota, and the Developer Portal.
View full review »- API security
- Lifecycle management
- Analytics
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reviewer932796
Senior architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Apigee is a strong-featured solution. It leads in Gartner Quadrant ratings and it is a full-slated API solution that has the features that an API gateway requires.
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Trishit Nag
APIGEE API Developer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
There are many features, which I have felt are very useful and easy to implement at flows.
Below are some of the points that I would like to highlight:
- I like Service Callout, JSON/XML Threat Protection, and JavaScript callout policy. I find them very useful.
- I found Apigee Analytics dashboard very useful for monitoring.
- Private cloud architecture
- Management APIs are very useful, because we can execute them from our server only.
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reviewer1407171
Chief Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Apigee makes it nice and easy for the clients and those using the product to access the product's help resources.
View full review »- Flexible setup
- Pricing and license cost for end-user delivery/ distribution model
- Both on-premise and cloud deployment models are available.
- Highly scalable from any initial topology to horizontal extension.
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Shawky Foda
Senior Architect at Masterworks
- Pragmatic RESTful
- Developer portals
- Continuous Integration/Continuous Development
- Tracing tool
- Developer portal
- Apigee Sense
- Analytics
- Microgateway
I think it is the most functional tool on the market. The security is a valuable feature.
View full review »Buyer's Guide
Apigee
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Apigee. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,578 professionals have used our research since 2012.