Tyk Dashboard

The Tyk Dashboard is the GUI and analytics platform for Tyk. It provides an easy-to-use management interface for managing a Tyk installation as well as clear and granular analytics.

The Dashboard also provides the API Developer Portal, a customisable developer portal for your API documentation, developer auto-enrolment and usage tracking.

The Dashboard also exposes the Developer Portal as a separate component of the application. This means it can either be deployed as an internet-facing application or as a purely admin application depending on how it is being used:

Tyk Dashboard API

The Dashboard is a large, granular REST API with a thin-client web front-end, and if being deployed as part of a Tyk install, serves as the main integration point instead of the Gateway API.

The Dashboard API is a superset of the Gateway API, providing the same functionality, with additional features (anything that can be done in the Dashboard has an API endpoint), and offers some additional advantages:

• the Dashboard API has a granular structure, you can create separate clients easily
• the API features read/write permissions on a per-endpoint level to have extra control over integrations
• the API enforces a schema that can be modified and hardened depending on your usage requirements

The Dashboard exposes two APIs:

• the Dashboard API for operational use of the Dashboard
• the Dashboard Admin API for initial and administrative configuration

Accessing the Dashboard API

The Tyk Dashboard API is secured using an Authorization header that must be added to each request that is made. The Tyk Dashboard API Access Credentials Authorization key can be found within the Dashboard UI at the bottom of the Edit User section for a user.