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WSO2 API Manager
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WSO2 API Manager
WSO2 API Manager is an open-source platform designed to help organisations create, manage, publish and monitor APIs in a secure and scalable manner. It offers full API lifecycle management capabilities, including API design, governance, security, rate limiting, analytics and developer portal functionalities.
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Key features of WSO2 API Manager
The essential features and capabilities of the WSO2 API Manager solution include:
Full API Lifecycle Management
WSO2 API Manager supports the complete API lifecycle, from designing and prototyping to publishing, versioning, deprecating and eventually retiring APIs.
Built-in API Gateway
The API Gateway offers high performance with low latency. It manages security, traffic throttling, routing and protocol transformations, providing essential features out of the box.
Microgateway Support
For microservices architectures, the Microgateway offers a lightweight, container-friendly solution that enables decentralised API traffic management, providing flexibility for distributed environments and simplifying the deployment of microservices
Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Deployments
WSO2 API Manager is designed for versatility. It supports deployment across on-premises, cloud, or hybrid environments and integrates with platforms like Kubernetes and Docker, offering the flexibility needed to scale and adapt to diverse infrastructure needs.
Policy-Driven Security and Throttling
Implement precise control over API access with OAuth2, JWT, Mutual TLS and API keys. Customisable policies enable granular rate limiting and traffic management.
CI/CD Integration and DevOps Ready
The platform supports seamless integration with CI/CD pipelines, including tools like Jenkins, Git and Helm. Automate the promotion of APIs through various environments and ensure consistent deployment using modern DevOps practices.
Integrated Developer Portal (API Store)
The self-service developer portal lets developers discover, subscribe to and test APIs easily. Customisable and featuring built-in Swagger and Try-It functionality, this portal simplifies API adoption and streamlines the integration process.
API Federation and Monetisation
WSO2 API Manager enables API monetisation, facilitating the management of distributed teams and multi-tenant setups for large organisations. Monetise your APIs and control access across your ecosystem with robust governance and analytics tools.
Extensive Analytics and Monitoring
Track real-time API usage, traffic patterns and performance metrics with built-in dashboards powered by ELK stack or external tools like Grafana. Monitor API health and receive alerts to ensure optimal performance and swift issue resolution.
Open Standards & Extensibility
Built on open standards such as REST, GraphQL, OpenAPI and WebSub, WSO2 API Manager is highly extensible. Add custom handlers, interceptors and plugins to tailor the platform to your specific needs, ensuring it integrates seamlessly with your existing systems.
Benefits of WSO2 API Manager
Drives digital transformation
WSO2 API Manager enables organisations to expose internal systems and services as secure, reusable APIs, facilitating innovation, agility and a faster time to market.
Boosts developer efficiency
With a self-service onboarding process, API discovery and interactive documentation, developers can quickly build and integrate applications, improving productivity and collaboration.
Strengthens security and compliance
Centralised governance, access control and traffic policies ensure that your APIs meet security standards and comply with data protection regulations, such as GDPR and PCI-DSS.
Optimises API Performance and Scalability
With built-in features like caching, rate limiting and load balancing, WSO2 API Manager ensures that your APIs remain fast, reliable and resilient, even under heavy traffic loads.
How we help with WSO2 API Manager
At Claria, we provide expert guidance and end-to-end support to help you successfully implement, optimise and scale your WSO2 API Manager. Here's how we assist our clients:
Migration to WSO2 API Manager
We assist in migrating your existing APIs to WSO2 API Manager, ensuring a smooth transition with minimal disruption and maximum efficiency, while optimising security and scalability.
Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Deployments
Our team ensures that WSO2 API Manager is deployed efficiently across your desired infrastructure, whether on-premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments. We assist in integrating the platform with Kubernetes, Docker and other cloud-native technologies.
API Strategy and Roadmap
We work closely with your team to develop a comprehensive API strategy aligned with your business goals. Our experts help you define the vision, design the API structure and plan the lifecycle of your APIs.
CI/CD Integration
We integrate WSO2 API Manager with your existing CI/CD pipelines, enabling automated deployment and updates for APIs.
Custom Implementation and Configuration
Our team handles the implementation and configuration of WSO2 API Manager, ensuring it is tailored to your specific requirements.
Ongoing Support and Managed Services
With our 24/7 support and managed services, we monitor the health of your API infrastructure, handle troubleshooting and provide regular updates and security patches.
Data Governance & Compliance
We help establish data governance practices and ensure that your APIs comply with local and global data privacy regulations, maintaining secure and compliant access to sensitive data.
Training and Enablement
To ensure your team can independently manage WSO2 API Manager, we offer customised training sessions, covering everything from API design and security configuration to performance monitoring and troubleshooting.
Team Augmentation
Our experienced professionals can augment your internal team to support API management, offering expertise in development, operations, security and more. Whether for short-term projects or long-term support, we provide flexible resourcing.
Certified WSO2 API Manager Licensing Provider
At Claria, we are a certified WSO2 API Manager licensing provider, guiding organisations through the process of acquiring, renewing and optimising their WSO2 API Manager licenses. Whether you are adopting WSO2 API Manager for the first time or looking to review and optimise your existing subscription, we can help you with the complexities of WSO2 API Manager licensing.
WSO2 API Manager offers a flexible, subscription-based licensing model that can be tailored based on usage, scale and the features you require. Our team assists in selecting the most appropriate licensing structure.
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Licensing Guidance
We help you understand and choose the most cost-effective licensing model based on your needs.
Optimisation
We ensure that you’re not overpaying for unnecessary features and help you scale your license as your API usage grows.
License Renewals
We guide you through the renewal process, making sure your license remains active without disruptions.
Support
As your certified provider, we offer direct assistance for any licensing or technical queries, ensuring your WSO2 API Manager platform runs smoothly.
WSO2 API Manager Pricing and Cost
WSO2 API Manager offers a flexible subscription-based pricing model, allowing you to tailor the solution to your organisation's needs. Pricing is determined based on factors such as the number of APIs, users and transaction volumes, as well as the support level and additional features you require
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Key Considerations for WSO2 API Manager Pricing:
API Traffic
The cost may vary depending on the volume of API calls and transactions managed through the platform.
Licensing tiers
WSO2 provides different licensing tiers to match the scale of your usage, from small businesses to enterprise-level deployments.
Add-ons and features
Additional capabilities, such as advanced analytics, microgateway support and developer portals, may incur extra costs.
Support levels
Choose from basic or premium support based on your operational requirements and the level of assistance needed.
How WSO2 API Manager works
WSO2 API Manager is designed to help organizations efficiently create, manage and monitor APIs. Here’s how it works, step-by-step:
1. API Creation & Design
Create APIs
Developers use WSO2 API Manager to design APIs, whether they are REST, SOAP, GraphQL, or event-driven. The platform provides tools for defining the API’s endpoints, methods and data structures.
API Documentation
WSO2 automatically generates interactive API documentation for consumers, making it easier for developers to understand and interact with your APIs.
2. Security & Access Control
Authentication
APIs can be secured using standard authentication protocols like OAuth2, JWT (JSON Web Tokens), API keys, or mutual TLS (mTLS).
Authorization
You can apply granular access control policies to decide who can access specific APIs based on roles or user credentials. This ensures that only authorized users or applications can access sensitive data or services.
3. API Gateway
Routing & Processing
Once APIs are designed, they are published to the API Gateway, which acts as the central access point. The gateway manages traffic, routes requests to backend services and applies any policies (e.g., rate limiting, logging, transformations) before delivering responses.
Mediation
WSO2 API Manager allows you to add custom middleware or handlers to perform specific tasks like modifying requests and responses, logging, or calling other services before final responses are sent back to the client.
4. Monitoring & Analytics
Track API Usage
WSO2 API Manager provides analytics tools to track the usage of your APIs. You can see who’s using the API, how often and for what purposes.
Performance Monitoring
You can also monitor the performance of APIs, checking things like response times, failure rates and API load to identify bottlenecks and optimize performance.
5. Developer Engagement
Developer Portal
WSO2 API Manager includes a developer portal where external or internal developers can discover, subscribe to and interact with your APIs. The portal provides interactive documentation and sandbox environments to test APIs before integration.
API Subscription
Developers can subscribe to the APIs they need and request access through the portal. This enables organizations to control how APIs are shared with external partners or customers.
6. Traffic Management & Scaling
Traffic Policies
API traffic can be managed through rate limiting, throttling and quota management policies. These ensure that APIs aren’t overwhelmed by too many requests and that resources are used efficiently.
Scaling
WSO2 API Manager supports horizontal scaling to handle increasing traffic and provide high availability, ensuring that your API ecosystem is always available and responsive.
7. API Lifecycle Management
Versioning
WSO2 API Manager supports versioning, so APIs can evolve without breaking existing client applications. Developers can create new versions of an API while maintaining old versions for backward compatibility.
Deprecation & Retirement
Once an API version is outdated or no longer needed, it can be deprecated and eventually retired, helping to maintain a clean API environment.
When to use WSO2 API Manager
WSO2 API Manager provides a set of features for organisations looking to manage, secure and optimise their APIs. Below are some scenarios where it can deliver the most value:
Get in touchExposing APIs to external partners or customers
WSO2 API Manager allows you to securely publish APIs for external use, ensuring controlled access and comprehensive tracking. Whether you’re enabling third-party integrations or providing external developers with access to your services, WSO2 API Manager makes it easy to manage all aspects of external API consumption.
Unifying access to multiple backend services
By aggregating microservices, legacy systems and cloud-based services into a unified API layer, WSO2 API Manager simplifies API consumption. This approach helps decouple clients from the underlying complexity, allowing them to access multiple systems through a consistent and streamlined API interface.
Enforcing security and compliance policies
WSO2 API Manager supports advanced security policies such as OAuth2, JWT, mutual TLS, rate limiting and IP filtering, ensuring your APIs meet enterprise-level security and compliance standards. It provides you with the tools to enforce strict access controls, safeguard sensitive data and comply with regulatory requirements, such as GDPR.
Monitoring and optimising API usage
With built-in analytics and integration with observability tools, WSO2 API Manager allows you to track API usage, monitor performance and detect anomalies in real time. The platform’s analytics dashboard provides valuable insights into API consumption patterns, enabling continuous performance optimisation and informed decision-making.
Engaging developers with a customisable portal
WSO2 API Manager provides a fully customisable developer portal where external developers can discover, test and onboard your APIs. With detailed documentation, usage statistics and interactive features like Try-It, the portal helps accelerate adoption, improve developer engagement and foster collaboration.
WSO2 API Manager Considerations
Before adopting WSO2 API Manager, it’s important to evaluate several key factors that will impact the success and efficiency of your API management solution. Here are the primary considerations to keep in mind:
WSO2 API Manager offers powerful governance features, including versioning, access control, security policies and monitoring. Before implementing, assess your current approach to API security, including whether your teams are equipped to enforce standards such as OAuth2, JWT and access control. It is also essential to evaluate if your organisation is ready to manage compliance requirements such as GDPR or industry-specific regulations, ensuring that all policies are consistently applied.
Managing APIs effectively goes beyond simple endpoint creation. It involves continuous traffic monitoring, performance tracking, analytics and policy enforcement. Consider whether your teams have the capacity to manage these aspects as your number of APIs and API traffic grows. It’s important to assess whether your team has the required expertise in monitoring API health, managing scaling needs and analysing API performance data, or if additional training or external support may be required.
WSO2 API Manager allows for API monetisation and developer engagement through a customisable API portal. Think about how you plan to engage external developers and monetise your APIs. Will you implement usage-based billing models or offer different tiers of API access? It's important to define your developer ecosystem and how you will encourage adoption and usage through the API portal, as well as manage external access.
Adopting WSO2 API Manager involves long-term maintenance and ongoing optimisation. Consider how your organisation will handle updates, monitoring and troubleshooting. Is your internal team prepared to handle this, or would a managed service be more beneficial? You should also consider how versioning and deprecation of APIs will be handled over time, ensuring continuity and minimising disruption as your API ecosystem evolves.
Integration with your current infrastructure is a crucial consideration. Whether your systems are hosted on-premises or in the cloud, you’ll need to evaluate how WSO2 API Manager fits within your existing IT landscape. Consider any required integrations with third-party applications and services. Understanding the necessary customisation or connectors to ensure compatibility will help you make a smooth transition to API management.
Why choose Claria?
Your trusted WSO2 API Manager partner
As a certified partner for WSO2, Claria brings specialised knowledge and experience in API management. Our team offers practical, hands-on support, helping you optimise your API strategy, enhance security and enable scalability. With our deep understanding of both technology and business needs, we ensure that your API management solution is aligned with your goals.
Tailored API solutions that align with your business requirements
Expertise in WSO2 API Manager and its full suite of features
End-to-end support from strategy and design to implementation and optimisation
Proven track record with organisations across various industries
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WSO2 API Manager FAQs
WSO2 API Manager is available in a free, open-source community edition, which you can use without a license. However, for enterprise-grade features, security updates and official support, a commercial license is required. Claria, as a certified partner, can help you choose the right licensing model.
Yes, WSO2 API Manager is highly extensible and can integrate with a wide range of systems, including identity providers, CI/CD pipelines, logging platforms, backend services and databases. It supports standard protocols and can be customised with middleware extensions and filters.
Yes, WSO2 includes a Developer Portal where APIs can be published for internal or external developers. It supports subscription-based access, rate limiting and customisable onboarding flows. You can also implement API monetisation models using its policy management and analytics features.
WSO2 API Manager includes a built-in analytics dashboard that offers real-time and historical insights into API usage, performance metrics, user activity and error rates. These insights help optimise APIs, detect anomalies and plan for scalability.
WSO2 API Manager provides robust, policy-based security controls, including OAuth2, JWT, API key management, rate limiting, throttling, IP filtering and role-based access. It also supports integration with external identity providers for SSO and custom authentication mechanisms.
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