UI overview

This page applies to Apigee and Apigee hybrid.

View Apigee Edge documentation.

The Apigee UI is a graphical user interface that you can use to manage the lifecycle of your APIs. You can use the Apigee UI to develop and deploy your API proxies, trace their execution, view API analytics, and manage other aspects of your Apigee organization and its environments. You can access the Apigee UI in the Google Cloud console, making it easier to access and manage Apigee while working with other Google Cloud resources.

Using the Apigee UI, you can:

• Build an API proxy
• Deploy and undeploy API proxies to your cluster
• Create, edit, and delete environments and environment groups
• Assign environment-level access control to users
• Work with target servers, KVMs, and shared flows

Use the Apigee UI in Cloud console

To open the Apigee UI in the Google Cloud console, go to the Apigee API management page.

Apigee API management

From the Overview page, you can:

• Get started as a new Apigee user
• Test your Apigee runtime
• View key resource usage metrics
• Explore Apigee API management features

Get started as a new Apigee user

If you just are new to Apigee, you can begin your API management journey with quickstart learning options launched from the Overview page:

• Begin by deploying your first proxy: Watch a < a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79eUi6toj2c&authuser=2">video tutorial that walks you through the steps required to create and deploy an API proxy. Once you are ready, click Create new proxy to get started.
• Start with VS Code: Follow this step-by-step tutorial to Build and deploy your first API proxy locally using Apigee in VSCode.

For more advanced use cases, follow along with step-by-step video walkthroughs showcased in the Tutorials section of the page:

Test your Apigee runtime

If you just completed provisioning a new Apigee organization, use the Test your Apigee runtime card to deploy and call a proxy, as described below:

Pay-as-you-go organization

If you have a Pay-as-you-go organization:

1. Click Deploy API to deploy the sample Hello World proxy to the test-env environment in your new runtime instance.
   Note: The proxy is not fully deployed instantaneously. It can take up to a minute for the proxy to deploy.
2. Upon successful deployment, the console displays steps for sending a test request.

Subscription organization

If you have a Subscription organization:

1. Configure DNS to enable external access to your new proxy For more information, see Call the proxy with external access.
2. Click Deploy API to deploy the sample Hello World proxy to the default-dev environment in your new runtime instance.
   Note: The proxy is not fully deployed instantaneously. It can take up to a minute for the proxy to deploy.
3. Upon successful deployment, the console displays steps for sending a test request.

View key resource usage metrics

View key usage metrics for your organization at a glance using the Proxy Usage and Environment Usage cards, as shown in the figure below:

Whether you are a Pay-as-you-go or Subscription customer, this view provides you with a snapshot of key resource usage, as well as shortcuts to other monitoring and identity management resources for your organization, including:

• Cloud Monitoring
• Cloud Billing
• IAM

Explore Apigee API management features

From the main navigation menu, you can explore the range of Apigee API management features available for your organization, as described in the table below:

Main navigation menu	Purpose
Proxy development	Develop and deploy API proxies.
Distribution	Make your APIs available to app developers.
Analytics	Analyze API traffic data.
API security	Identify security threats and vulnerabilities with Advanced API Security.
API hub	View and manage your organization's APIs with API hub (Preview).
Management	Manage Apigee users and roles.

Note: There are a limited number of features that must be accessed using the classic Apigee UI, including Monetization, End Users, and Portals. If you need to use these features, you can click Go to Classic Apigee UI from the Apigee UI in Cloud console or log in to the classic Apigee UI.