Fastly API Discovery Just Got Even Better ![]()
Fastly API Discovery gives you one-click access to discover, monitor, and secure your APIs easily. It continuously monitors your API traffic within Fastly’s extensive Edge network to build a continuous snapshot of your APIs, keeping you aware of any new, updated, and unexpected API requests coming to your origin.
We’ve added new capabilities to API Discovery, including Tree View for better real-time contextual viewing. Now, we’ve added Inventory, which helps you create audit logs and additional evergreen context for your teams.
Looking ahead, we’re delivering more capabilities to help teams define their API standards, and monitor and enforce API behaviors for specific and targeted mitigation actions. And we’re just getting started ![]()
Why Use API Discovery?
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Continuous discovery: Automatically identify and record the incoming API requests to your services.
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Easy configuration: Enable API Discovery on your existing Fastly Delivery or Compute services with a single-toggle. No messy configurations or deployments required.
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Simple sensemaking: Aggregate APIs by domain, normalized URL path, and method for a simple, navigable catalog view. Or switch to Tree View for a better visualization of the relationships between APIs and underlying resources.
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Shared understanding: Keep track of important APIs and metadata with Inventory, and ensure your platform and security teams make decisions from the same data.
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Targeted security: Detect new, updated, and unintended API requests. Mitigate issues with security products like Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF.
How do I get started?
Documentation: Getting started with API Discovery
Ask questions or share feedback below – we’d love to hear how API Discovery can work better for your team!