What is Apigee API hub?

This page applies to Apigee and Apigee hybrid.

Apigee API hub enables you to consolidate and organize information about all of the APIs in your company's organization. It includes APIs at all stages of their lifecycle, from design and implementation through deprecation and retirement. API hub allows developers to discover APIs easily and leverage the work of other teams wherever possible. API platform teams can use API hub to centrally manage their portfolio of APIs.

Discover and manage APIs with Apigee API hub

Many organizations are challenged by the increasing number of APIs that they develop and use. As the number of APIs increases, they become harder to track, which can lead to duplication rather than reuse, an expensive inefficiency. When APIs proliferate without design standards and governance checks, the API landscape grows inconsistent, slowing teams down, when a well-organized API program helps them go faster.

API hub allows developers to upload and share descriptions of APIs that are either currently available or in development. These descriptions include standard formats like OpenAPI, the Google API Discovery Service Format, and the Protocol Buffers Language.

The API hub experience is primarily aimed at consumers and producers of APIs within an organization whose main concerns are finding and listing APIs in their organization's catalog.

API hub interacts with API Registry to view and manage your organization's APIs. Permissions in API hub and API Registry are controlled through Google Cloud IAM. For details, see Roles.

Key benefits of Apigee API hub

API hub allows developers to:

  • Discover and explore the full inventory of API assets
  • Quickly find existing APIs
  • Easily add APIs
  • Minimize API duplication
  • Follow consistent standards
  • Identify API dependencies and improve supportability for apps

But perhaps most importantly, bringing everything about APIs together into one place can accelerate the consistency and utilization of an API portfolio. With organization-wide visibility, many find they need less explicit governance even as their APIs become more standardized and easy to use.

What's next?

Get started with API hub