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Guideline for the structured use of external and internal APIs by applications and services.
API consumption describes how applications and services use external or internal APIs in a structured way. It covers contracts, authentication, rate limiting, data transformation, and error handling. Robust consumption patterns improve reuse, reliability, observability, and performance in distributed architectures at scale.
Share of failed API calls relative to total calls.
Response time distribution to assess performance SLAs.
Measure of processed calls per time unit.
Consumers use REST/GraphQL interfaces to display and synchronize repository data.
Payment processing via external API including webhooks, idempotency and security model.
Unified CRM API consumed by multiple frontends and integrations, with versioning and access controls.
Define and publish the contract (spec).
Implement client adapter with timeouts, retries and circuit breaker.
Integrate monitoring, metrics and alerts.
Establish versioning strategy and migration plan.