In this blog series, we’ve explored the essential capabilities to consider when evaluating the right API gateway for your organization, covering aspects from security to architecture – for previous discussions, see part 1, part 2, and part 3. We examined these capabilities in both Gloo Gateway and Apigee to understand how these solutions compare.
In the final post of our series, we explain how observability and monitoring empower organizations to gain insights into their API operations, while supportability ensures smooth and successful performance.
Observability and Monitoring
API gateway solutions must have robust analytics for organizations to use to optimize performance and identify issues.
These are the API gateway observability and monitoring capabilities we compared:
- Logging captures and records detailed information about API requests and responses.
- Tracing tracks the flow of API requests through different services and components to provide a detailed view of request paths.
- Metrics and analytics collect, analyze, and visualize data on API usage, performance, and errors.
Overall, Gloo Gateway gets a 4/4 for these offerings, while Apigee gets a 2/4. Read the full breakdown in the API Gateway buyers guide.
Supportability
Supportability ensures smooth operations and timely responses to meet user needs.
These are the API gateway supportability capabilities we compared:
- Product documentation provides detailed information on configuration, usage, features, and troubleshooting to assist developers and administrators in effectively utilizing their chosen solution.
- Enterprise support helps large organizations effectively manage, optimize, and troubleshoot their API gateway deployments.
- Community support provides a knowledge network for solving problems and collaborating on best practices.
- Long-term version support ensures that specific software versions are updated and have technical assistance for an extended period.
- Health checks regularly verify the availability and responsiveness of backend services to ensure optimal performance and detect issues promptly.
Overall, Gloo Gateway gets a 4/4 for these offerings, while Apigee gets a 2/4. Read the full breakdown in the API Gateway buyers guide.
Compare Every API Gateway Capability
To learn more about all of the capabilities we compared for Gloo Gateway and Apigee, download our API gateway buyer’s guide.
For a better understanding of API gateways, take our API Gateway Basics course.
