Part 4: Setting a Cohesive Analytics Strategy

In Part 3, you learned about the vast set of metrics you can use to measure infrastructure, product, and business initiatives. As you begin to capture the data and start to analyze the metrics, you will need to be able to interpret these metrics, identify the right key performance indicators (KPIs) for your product, and make decisions based on these metrics. In this part, you will learn about how you can stitch together the insights from the various metrics you have, evaluate and contrast each of them to validate or invalidate your findings, and remove biases that might impact your decision-making process.

Once you have metrics established and start measuring various aspects of the API experience and usage, you can see which aspects of your product strategy are being addressed sufficiently by your current product initiatives and where you might have gaps. Establishing an analytics strategy will allow you to stitch together the various...