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//API Governance
Governance built in.Not bolted on.
Lifecycle, policy, and schema standards enforced across every API, automated and federated over the gateways you run.
Standards
Standards enforced, not written down
Style guides and security checklists checked automatically when an API ships.
Schemas
Breaking changes caught before deploy
Schema validation at design time, not on-call pages from downstream teams.
Lifecycle
No more shadow APIs
Every API has an owner, a contract, and a path to retirement.
Governance fails when it is manual, late, and per-team.
Make governance a property of the platform.
//Overview
What is API governance?
API governance makes every API follow agreed standards for design, security, schemas and lifecycle, from first design to retirement, so the API estate stays consistent, safe and free of shadow APIs.
DataObserve Sense defines standards once, enforces them at design time and runtime, catches breaking schema changes before deploy and federates governance across the gateways you already run.
//How it works
From design to retirement,governed end to end.
Step 1
Define standards once
Score rules, shared policy groups, and plan templates.
//Standards that scale
Standards that scale with your estate
Lifecycle, not just runtime
Owners, contracts, and retirement paths.
Policy without per-API work
Update once, propagate everywhere.
Validation before deploy
Breaking changes and missing auth caught early.
Federated governance
One catalog and portal across every gateway.
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//Use cases
API Governance: use cases
Design standards
Check API specs against your rules before they are built.
Breaking changes
Catch schema changes that would break consumers before deploy.
Shadow APIs
Find undocumented APIs and bring them into the lifecycle.
Retirement
Deprecate and retire APIs without breaking consumers.
//FAQs
API Governance: questions teams ask
What is a shadow API?
A shadow API is one running in production without being documented or governed, which makes it a security and reliability risk.
How are breaking changes detected?
Schemas are validated against previous versions before deploy, and changes that would break consumers are flagged.
Does governance require one gateway?
No. Governance is federated across the gateways you already run.
When are standards enforced?
At design time, during deployment and at runtime.
