Organizations are increasingly publishing application programming interfaces (APIs) in order to share frequently requested real-time data with internal or external consumers. For example, the government of a country might create and publish APIs that enable the public or press to access information about police forces and crime statistics in different areas. API management is a system in which an organization, or API provider, creates APIs, governs the API design life-cycle, governs and secures API runtime execution, publishes APIs for API consumers, and monitors API usage.