API usage analytics
API usage analytics provide valuable insights into how your API is being used, who is using it, and how it’s performing. The most important metric to consider when studying the behavior of your API users is the time to first request. This metric measures the time a user takes from signing up to making their first request to your API. It’s an important metric because it measures the friction that consumers have when they first interact with your API. Having a high time to first request metric means that consumers are finding it difficult to understanding how to use your API. So, your goal is to lower this metric as much as possible. You can do that by implementing the learnings from Chapters 2, 5, and 12.
After consumers make their first request, there are other metrics to consider that will provide different insights. You can understand how consumers interact with your API by analyzing specific metrics such as usage volume, request rate, and traffic...
