Traffic composition

This page applies to Apigee and Apigee hybrid.

View Apigee Edge documentation.

Dashboard availability: This dashboard is not available if your Apigee organization was provisioned with compliance-related Apigee features, such as data residency, CMEK, and workforce identity federation.

What does this dashboard tell me?

The Traffic Composition dashboard measures the relative contribution of your top APIs, apps, developers, and products to your overall API program.

Use the report to detect business problems such as lower traffic trends or diminishing contribution from key apps and developers. Based on this data, you can decide what corrective action to take. You can also get early notification of new entities that contribute to API traffic, and take actions to respond — for example, you can determine which new developers are highly contributing and include them in nurturing programs.

Note: Data delay interval
After API calls are made to proxies, it may take up to 10 minutes for the data to appear in dashboards, custom reports, and management API calls.

The Traffic Composition dashboard

Apigee in Cloud console

To access the Traffic Composition dashboard:

1. Open the Apigee UI in Cloud console in a browser.
   Required roles: To access the Traffic Composition dashboard, you must have the following IAM predefined roles:

   • roles/apigee.analyticsViewer
   • roles/apigee.analyticsEditor
   • roles/apigee.addonsconfig.get

   For more information, see How to specify a predefined role.

2. In the left navigation pane, click Analytics > Developer analysis.
3. Click the Traffic Composition tab.

The dashboard opens as shown below:

Using the Cloud Console version of the dashboard

The dashboard has a set of dropdown menus that you can use to filter the information shown in the dashboard. The filter dropdown menus are dynamic. For example, if you select a developer from the Developers dropdown, then any proxies, apps, and API products associated with that developer are automatically selected in the other dropdown menus, charts, and tables. For more information, see About filter properties in the Looker Studio documentation.

Use the date selector to pick a start and end date to measure. The date selector only lets you select dates in day increments. You can't select a time range increment that is smaller than a day.

Note: Seeing a dimension entity named (not set)? For more information, see What does an analytics entity named (not set) mean?

Classic Apigee UI

Note: The Classic Apigee UI is only available for Apigee hybrid organizations.

Access the Traffic Composition dashboard, as described below.

To access the Traffic Composition dashboard:

1. Sign in to Apigee UI.
2. Select Analyze > Developers > Traffic Composition.

The dashboard opens as shown below:

What does this dashboard measure?

This dashboard has two measurement modes, which you select with the Overview and Dimension tabs:

Mode	Description
Overview	Gives you a quick glance at traffic patterns for proxies, developer apps, products, and developers. For example, use this view to see which proxy, app, product, or developer is generating the most traffic.
Dimension	Let's you drill in to see a more detailed view of proxy, developer app, product, and developer traffic.

Note: Seeing a dimension entity named (not set)? For more information, see What does an analytics entity named (not set) mean?.

What the Overview mode tells you

Click Overview to display this mode. This mode presents a set of straight-forward graphs showing traffic patterns proxies, developer apps, developers, and products.

The following figure shows part of the traffic composition overview page:

Mode	Description
Top 10 proxies by traffic	Shows the top 10 proxies measured by API traffic.
Top 10 developers by traffic	Shows the top 10 developers measured by API traffic.
Top 10 products by traffic	Shows the top 10 products measured by API traffic.
Top 10 apps by traffic	Shows the top 10 developer apps measured by API traffic.

What the Dimension mode tells you

Click Dimension to display this mode. This mode lets you drill in to see traffic pattern details for specific proxies, developer apps, developers, and products.

Details shown in the dimension mode include:

Metric	Description
Traffic over time by proxy	Lets you see the relative traffic contribution of each proxy.
Traffic over time by developer	Lets you see the relative traffic contribution of each developer.
Traffic over time by product	Lets you see the relative traffic contribution of each API product.
Traffic over time by apps	Lets you see the relative traffic contribution of each developer app.

Make a copy in Looker Studio

If you are using this dashboard in Google Cloud console, you can edit, save, and share a copy of the dashboard in Looker Studio. To get started:

1. Click Make a copy in Looker Studio.
2. From the dropdown menu, select the report you wish to copy.
3. In Looker Studio, click Save and share.
4. Click Acknowledge and save.

You can now edit the copy saved in your user account. For details on using Looker Studio to edit and create reports, see the Looker Studio documentation.

Note: Any changes you make in Looker Studio are not reflected back in the Apigee dashboard.