- Introduction
- Installing and updating
- Navigating Postman
- Sending your first request
- Managing your account
- Syncing your work
- Discovering templates
- Creating your first collection
- Creating a workspace
- Setting up your Postman app
- Importing and exporting data
- Troubleshooting app issues
- Building requests
- Authorizing requests
- Receiving responses
- Grouping requests in collections
- Using variables
- Managing environments
- Visualizing responses
- Specifying examples
- Using cookies
- Working with certificates
- Generating client code
- Troubleshooting requests
- Using the Collection Runner
- Scheduling runs with monitors
- Building request workflows
- Importing data files
- Working with your team
- Defining roles
- Requesting access
- Sharing your work
- Your Private API Network
- Commenting on collections
- Versioning APIs
- Using version control
- Using the API Builder
- Managing and sharing APIs
- Validating APIs
- Monitoring your APIs
- Setting up a monitor
- Viewing monitor results
- Monitoring APIs and websites
- Set up integrations to receive alerts
- Running Postman monitors using static IPs
- Troubleshooting monitors
- Monitoring FAQs
- Analyzing with reports
- Documenting your API
- Authoring your docs
- Publishing your docs
- Viewing documentation
- Using custom domains
- Publishing templates
- Publishing to the API Network
- Submission guidelines
- Managing your team
- Purchasing Postman
- Billing
- Configuring team settings
- Utilizing audit logs
- Onboarding checklist
- Migrating data between teams
- Intro to SSO
- Configuring SSO for a team
- Logging in to an SSO team
- Microsoft AD FS
- Custom SAML in Azure AD
- Custom SAML in Duo
- Custom SAML in GSuite
- Custom SAML in Okta
- Custom SAML in Onelogin
- Custom SAML in Ping Identity
- Migrating to the current version of Postman
Your Private API Network
Share the APIs that your team uses internally to the Private API Network. Your team can learn about and access these APIs and start using them right away.
If you're logged in, go directly to your team's Private API Network. You can always find it by clicking API Network at the top from anywhere in the Dashboard.
In order to add your API to the network, it must be in the API Builder. You can only add APIs, not collections, to the Private API Network.
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Adding your APIs
You can only add an API to the network if you have edit access to the API, and your team members have permission to view or edit the API. Learn more about roles and permissions.
To add an API to your team's Private API Network from your Dashboard, sign in and click API Network at the top.
The default view is your team's Private API Network. Click + Add new.
In the modal, choose the workspace containing the API you want to add to the network. You can select as many APIs to add to the network at one time. For each API selected, specify the version(s) to add. Then click Add to Network.
The APIs that you add to the Private API Network reflect the latest state of the API in your team workspace. In other words, changes made to the API in the workspace will be reflected in the network in real time.
The API will immediately be visible in your team's Private API Network. From the listing, you can edit the network listing or remove the API from the network.
You can also add an API to your team's Private API Network from the Postman app. Go to the API Builder via APIs in the left sidebar. Select an API, and see a high-level description on the first tab Overview. You can add and edit your network listing next to the version details on the right.
Security
Private APIs are only visible to logged in users who are a part of your Postman team. They are not discoverable or accessible to anyone who is not a part of your team.
Guidelines
To submit an API to the network, you must have edit access to the API. You cannot add an API to the private network unless all team members have at least view access to the API. Learn more about team roles and permissions.
Folders in Private API Network
You can create new folders from the Private API Network view. Click Add New, then select Folder to create a new folder.
Once you've created the folder, click Add New and select APIs to add APIs to your Team's API Network. You can choose the workspace and then select as many APIs you want to add to the network at one time. For each API selected, specify the version(s) to add. Click Add.

To edit the API setting, click ...
and select Edit network listing.

You can change the versions, update the API summary and even modify the folder to which the API should be added.

You can also remove the added APIs from Postman's API Network. Click ...
next to the API you would like to remove, then select Remove from network. Once you click Remove API, your team members will also lose access to the API via the network.
The sidebar navigation displays the folder structure for your Private API Network. You can also drag and drop the APIs and subfolders to different folders.
You can use the search box to search across folders, subfolders, and APIs in your Private API Network. You can also filter the folders, subfolders, and APIs based on name, recently added, and popularity.
Discovering and consuming private APIs
The Private API Network is a good place to learn about APIs shared within your team. You can browse private APIs in the Private API Network under your team name, or explore public APIs in the public API network.
Private APIs are only visible to logged in users who are a part of your Postman team.
Under your team name, you can browse a directory of APIs shared within your team.
Select an API to see a high-level description.
Click through Open in Builder to see a more detailed overview of the API in the web version of the API builder. Under the Overview tab of the API builder, you can review information about the API and update the description. You can see team collaborators and activities like recently added collections associated with this API.
You can also review version-level details on the right. Next to Versions, you can Edit network listing. All available versions are listed below, with an indicator of the active version as well as the version(s) listed to the network. Add to API Network will display if you haven't yet added the API to the private network.