Welcome to the Apigee Blog! 

Apigee is a website that can give you analytics and throttling for APIs.  Think of it kind of as a cross between “Google Analytics for APIs” and an API circuit-breaker that will protect your app from any traffic spike on your API.  It’s ‘freemium’ , self-service API management.

Apigee works by giving you a proxy that takes metrics and enforces rate-limiting and other policies on your API traffic as it flows.  So if you offer an open API - you can use Apigee between your API and customers to provide usage statistics and protect your back end with API throttling.  Or if you have an application that uses an API, such as an iPhone app or a mashup - you can create a proxy for an API you are using in the app (such as Yahoo Local’s search API) and hit the API through your Apigee proxy to get alerts if that API is not working as it should.  Or to double-check if your service is delivering to SLA or if someone is billing you for API usage.

Apigee is currently in a private preview and we’re hoping you’ll sign up for an invite.  We’re adding a few accounts every day, so it might be a few days. It would be a big help if you can tell us about your API and what you’d like to do.

Apigee is built by Sonoa Systems on our Sonoa ServiceNet platform - this is the same technology platform that we use for our enterprise customers doing high scale, complex API and policy management.  We try to write everything we’ve learned about API technology and management over on our API Infrastructure blog.

And there’s more about Apigee on the FAQ, we’re @apigee on twitter, and you’ll also see a ‘feedback’ tab floating around the margin of this page as well - so we hope you will tell us what you think and give Apigee a spin !