IBM API Connect for GraphQL

What do you like best about the product?

It’s easy to set up and not too complex to learn, so I was able to get started quickly.

What do you dislike about the product?

It is very costly compared to other products.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Rapidly design, create, and document APIs (REST, SOAP, GraphQL) using built-in developer tools and AI-powered generators.

What do you like best about the product?

It is very user-friendly. The product natively provides integrations with GraphQL and AsyncAPI, which enables a full service discoverability within the Dev Portal. This capability provides a self-service service consumption.

What do you dislike about the product?

Debugging API's might get somewhat difficult

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

securing API's (often proxies) to the public world

What do you like best about the product?

- It offers a good balance of features, security, and usability.
- It has a User-Friendly Interface.
- Solid for Mid-Level Use Cases

What do you dislike about the product?

Learning Curve for New Users is a little high. While the interface is well-structured, beginners or those without prior exposure to IBM’s ecosystem may find the initial learning curve steep.

Occasional Bugs:
The platform does occasionally exhibit bugs or inconsistencies, which can impact the developer experience. Most issues are manageable, but they can be frustrating during critical development phases.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mainly centralized API management, Security and Access control.

What do you like best about the product?

I love security features and features like rate limiting and throttling

What do you dislike about the product?

UI can be improved and pricing is a bit higher comparatively

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Overall API creation and management. It helps us in security and scalability of our APIs.

What do you like best about the product?

IBM API Connect is IBM Cloud based technology useful for API management lifecycle including development and administration.

What do you dislike about the product?

Limitations of Analytics data extraction

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

For SOAP and RESTful APIs, API development and management is easy with IBM API connect. IBM Analytics helps to keep the data for monitoring and troubleshooting.

What do you like best about the product?

Recently I got the opportunity to work with IBM API Connect. It comes in very handy for management and deployments of APIs. It provides seamless tools for API managing and development throughout the API lifecycle, starting from design to deployment and deprecation of APIs.

What do you dislike about the product?

Though it provides an end-to-end platform for the management of APIs, I still feel more tutorials and walkthroughs can help beginners learn API integration faster.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using the built-in tools offered by IBM API Connect, we designed an API for accessing product details and fetching order history. The design phase was quite easy, special thanks to OpenAPI support, and it also helped us deploy the API gateway.

What do you like best about the product?

IBM API Connect is a single API Management solution where it provides high security, easy to develop the APIs, we can publish the APIs to socialize. IBM API Connect will be integrated with IBM DataPower Gateway where it acts as a gateway providing high security and acting as a proxy. In the latest version of API Connect, advanced features are released where we can discover the APIs before moving to the API lifecycle and govern the APIs using API & Product level rulesets. The implementation for the administrator is quite easy, and the support provided by the IBM Support center is helpful when facing any production down issues.

What do you dislike about the product?

In the latest version of IBM API Connect, the deployment profile for the analytics server was deprecated, which requires additional RAM for the servers.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Developing APIs and publishing them through the developer portal site helps the APIs reach a wider audience and gain publicity.

What do you like best about the product?

It helps streamline the usage process of APIs with minimal code and enhance great functionality

What do you dislike about the product?

Nothing. It was all great learnings about the product

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps in improving the agility and efficiency with its low code approach and great result

What do you like best about the product?

features like load balancing, security, rate limiting

What do you dislike about the product?

Complexity in advanced configuration in custom integration

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

API testing

What do you like best about the product?

UI of IBM API developer and Admin portal is good for managing and viewing the available products. The configuration related to product subscription, API's endpoints and secrets is very easy through Admin portal. The best thing I like about this product is that it's very easy to configure and manage the access for specific product at individual and group level. It provides variety of security protocols and plans to expose your products.

What do you dislike about the product?

Product needs improvement on the latency of API call. As, with this layer of APIC configuration it adds a bit more delay. Also, the platform is very slow if we import the API and try to view/edit in API editor.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have very large numbers of API which we are exposing to multiple vendors. With IBM API connect portal we are able to manage all the API's very easily. Also, we are able to monitor the access and limit the usage of the API calls. Also, we are able to automate the configuration process of all the new API's.