Optimize your APIs with Tyk’s API analytics
Tyk helps you understand who is using your APIs, how and for what purpose. Tyk Pump sends your data to your business intelligence (BI) tool of choice, so you can use powerful API analytics to optimize your products and deliver the best experience for your API consumers.
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Better API experiences
Make better, data-driven decisions
Tyk helps you make better decisions. You need to know how people are using your APIs to make effective decisions around resource allocation, product development, monetization and more. The result? Optimized APIs, fewer wasted resources and happier users. Use the Tyk platform for all BI tools and all API protocols. We make API analytics easy.
Discover Tyk Pump
Tyk Pump sends your analytics data to whichever BI tool you prefer: Splunk, Datadog, Moesif… all the big players.
Dive into Tyk Dashboard
Monitor usage spikes, see your most-called APIs and more, all within the user-friendly Tyk Dashboard.
Drive monetization
Use Tyk’s API analytics to home in on which products your users prefer and identify areas for growth and development.
Stop wasting resources
Understand which APIs people aren’t using, so you can stop allocating resources to products that aren’t delivering business value.
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Enjoy superior visibility
See more with Tyk Pump. Then use those insights to level up your decision-making, improve troubleshooting, guide monetization and more. All while enjoying robust security, easy governance and powerful observability with Tyk API management.
- Optimize costs: Use Tyk to understand your API usage, so you can scale resources during peak demand and reduce costs during off-peak times.
- Capture custom metrics: Tyk molds around your requirements, supporting you to analyze the data you need to drive maximum business value.
- Boost performance and security: Use Tyk’s real-time analytics as part of your observability approach for fraud detection and faster issue identification and resolution.
- Guide monetization: Use the analytics data for each of your subscription plans to spot opportunities for superior monetization across your tiers.
- Work with all protocols: Tyk provides a simple solution for working with REST, GraphQL, SOAP and asynchronous, event-driven APIs, cutting through the complexity.
- Manage your APIs better: Tyk’s powerful API management capabilities help you achieve more at every stage of the API lifecycle, from design to deprecation.
Delight your users
Tyk Pump unlocks your ability to delight your API users and achieve your business goals. You can focus on enhancing user experiences, guiding product development through sound data and insights.
Let your products shine
Analyze traffic patterns to understand how you can optimize API performance and prevent slowdowns.
Look into the future
Send your API data to predictive analysis tools to discover the opportunities of the future.
Integrate seamlessly
Power your analytics approach your way, thanks to Tyk Pump’s easy integration with all leading BI tools.
See powerful API analytics in action
“Everything just works without any issue… Tyk Pump has helped us a lot in customizing the metrics we capture. This has become a standard for developers while debugging issues… This is the day-to-day impact.”
Before Tyk, when someone in MiQ’s product management team asked how an API was used, if usage had increased or what the error rate was, answers took time. Now, MiQ enjoys outstanding insights thanks to Tyk Pump. The firm is using this for everything from faster troubleshooting to guiding better business decisions. Read more about this case study.
FAQs
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How does Tyk Pump work with our existing business intelligence tools?
Tyk Pump is designed to send your API analytics data to whichever business intelligence tool you prefer, including popular platforms such as Splunk, Datadog, and Moesif. The integration is seamless, allowing you to analyze your API data using the familiar tools and dashboards that your team already uses, without requiring you to learn a new analytics platform. You can also view your analytics data within the user-friendly Tyk Dashboard.
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What kind of insights can we gain from Tyk's API analytics?
Tyk’s analytics provide insights into who is using your APIs, how they’re being used, and for what purpose. You can monitor usage spikes, identify your most-called APIs, understand traffic patterns, detect potential security issues, and discover which APIs aren’t being used. These insights help you make data-driven decisions about resource allocation, product development, and monetization strategies.
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Can Tyk's analytics help us optimize our API costs?
Yes. Tyk helps you understand your API usage patterns, allowing you to scale resources during peak demand and reduce costs during off-peak times. By identifying underutilized APIs, you can stop allocating resources to products that aren’t delivering business value, leading to significant cost savings and more efficient resource management.
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How does Tyk Analytics support API monetization?
Tyk’s API analytics provide detailed insights into which products your users prefer and how different subscription plans are performing. This data helps you identify areas for growth and development, spot opportunities for superior monetization across your tiers, and optimize your pricing models based on actual usage patterns rather than assumptions.
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Can we customize the metrics we collect through Tyk's analytics?
Yes, Tyk molds around your requirements, supporting you to analyze the specific data you need to drive maximum business value. You can capture custom metrics that are relevant to your business goals, ensuring that you’re collecting the right information to guide your decision-making process and measure your API program’s success.
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How does Tyk Analytics help with API security and performance monitoring?
Tyk’s real-time analytics are an integral part of your observability approach, enabling fraud detection and faster identification and resolution of security and performance issues. You can analyze traffic patterns to understand how to optimize API performance and prevent slowdowns, leading to superior performance and reliability, better user experiences and more secure API operations.
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Does Tyk Analytics work with all types of APIs?
Yes, Tyk provides a simple solution for working with multiple API protocols including REST, GraphQL, SOAP, and asynchronous, event-driven APIs. This universal approach cuts through the complexity of managing different API types and provides consistent analytics across your entire API portfolio, regardless of the underlying technologies. It means you can enjoy a full picture of your API portfolio’s performance, not just siloed snapshots.
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Can Tyk Analytics help us predict future API usage trends?
Tyk allows you to send your API data to predictive analysis tools, enabling you to predict future opportunities and trends. By leveraging historical usage data and patterns, you can anticipate future needs, proactively scale resources, and make strategic decisions about API development, enhancement, and monetization before demand materializes.
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How user-friendly is Tyk's analytics interface?
Tyk Dashboard provides a user-friendly interface for monitoring API analytics, allowing you to quickly visualize usage spikes, see your most-called APIs, and access other key metrics. The intuitive design makes it easy for team members across your organization to access and understand the insights, without requiring specialized technical knowledge.
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How can Tyk's analytics improve our API users' experience?
By understanding how users interact with your APIs, Tyk’s analytics help you identify pain points, optimize performance, and develop features that align with actual usage patterns. This leads to enhanced user experiences, as you can focus your development efforts on what matters most to your API consumers, preventing slowdowns during peak usage times, and creating and evolving APIs to better meet their needs.
