View reports about API activity across the API lifecycle

Gain visibility into API activity across every stage of the API lifecycle. API lifecycle reports provide insights into development, testing, production, distribution, and API management, helping teams track adoption, analyze usage trends, and better understand how APIs are built, tested, deployed, and managed across the organization.

To access the API lifecycle reports, from your homepage, click Reports in the sidebar. Click API Lifecycle under Usage reports to view usage metrics.

Actions count

Actions count is a metric that tracks user activity beyond API calls. An action is an intentional, use case-specific event, not a random click. These are the same events that power the API lifecycle reports, so the following activities count as actions:

• API development - Create, delete, or update activity on collections, specifications, mocks, or flows.
• API testing - Functional test runs (manual, CLI, CI/CD, and scheduled) and performance test runs.
• API production - Monitor runs and production flow runs.
• API distribution - Sharing workspaces through the Private API Network, Partner Workspaces, and public workspaces, and viewing content shared through them.
• API management - Publishing workspaces to the API Catalog.

Counting actions gives you a fuller picture of how people use Postman than API calls alone. For example, a user who sends no API calls but is active in these areas still shows up in your reports.

Browse and reference

Users who are active in Postman but have no activity recorded in API development, testing, production, distribution, or management are grouped in the Browse & Reference category.

API development

The API development section provides insights into the API design and development process, including the number of workspaces in development during the selected time period. A workspace is counted if it has create, delete, or update activity on collections, specifications, mocks, or flows, or if SDKs were generated.

This section also shows charts of active collections, specifications, mocks, flows, and SDKs generated over time. Each chart is followed by a list of the most popular items by the number of updates, mock requests, or SDK generations.

API testing

The API testing section lists total functional test runs (manual, CLI, CI/CD, and scheduled) and performance test runs (manual and automated) during the selected period.

It also includes a list of the most tested collections in each category of tests.

API production

The API production section provides information about total monitor runs and production flow runs during the selected period. It also includes a list of the most popular monitors and production flows by the number of runs.

API distribution

The API distribution section provides insights into the distribution of APIs across the organization, including the number of workspaces shared through the Private API Network, the number of Partner Workspaces, and the number of public workspaces during the selected period.

This section also includes the top workspaces in each category by the number of views. To see more detailed statistics, click Open report for Partner Workspaces or public workspaces. You can also find them in Workspaces reports.

API management

The API management section lists the number of workspaces published to the API Catalog during the selected period. It also includes a list of popular workspaces in the API Catalog by the number of updates.