Data Management
As you create and publish APIs, and administer API Gateway settings as a part of your business, the data generated from API Gateway gradually grows. The growing volume of data must be properly managed for optimal access and usage of the required data.
For an effective data management practice, Software AG strongly recommends that you perform the following :
Data housekeeping. Helps you maintain a hassle-free database and enhances your data access experience.
Data backup (Data management for data recovery). Helps you protect your data and lets you recover it when there is a data loss.
The following sections describe these use cases in detail.
Data housekeeping
Data housekeeping is to limit the data in maintained by API Gateway to avoid any capacity or performance problems.
API Gateway records analytics and log data for every API invocation. As a result, the amount of data maintained by API Gateway increases significantly.
Housekeeping involves maintaining the recent analytics and log data in API Gateway. Hence, the older or obsolete data is removed or purged. You can archive the log and analytics data before purging it. The archives can be used to meet long-term data retention requirements for forensic analysis, legal, or compliance purposes.
Data backup for data recovery
To protect against accidental loss of data, you should take regular backups of your data.
Data losses can occur in many forms, from hardware failures to data center outages, human errors, security threats, or other unexpected events. Legal compliance requirements or business continuity planning may require measures that allow systematic handling of such data loss scenarios.
Backup refers to the practice of making periodic copies of important data to a separate storage area. If the original data is lost or damaged, then use a copy to recover it.
