This document summarizes a session on API observability in Postman. The session instructs attendees to log into their Postman accounts, provides an agenda that includes defining API observability and monitoring, demonstrating observability in Postman, and closing with Q&A. It also outlines learning objectives to discuss observability for APIs, look at observability in Postman, integrate APIs, and do reporting. Key differences between API monitoring and observability are also highlighted.

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Observability
for APIs
Arlemi Turpault
Advocacy Lead
Mudit Mehta
Software Engineer II

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Arlemi
Turpault
SOFTWARE ENGINEER II, POSTMAN
Mudit
Mehta
@arlemi
@mudit19971804

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What is API Observability?
Differences between API Observability and API Monitoring
Observing APIs in Postman
Resources
Q&A
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Agenda

5. ● How long have you been using
Postman?
● What is your role?
● Are you already doing API
Observability?
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A little about you

6. At the end of this session, you will be able to:
● Discuss what observability means for APIs
● How to look at observability within Postman
● Ad-hoc integrations
● How to do reporting within Postman
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Learning Objectives

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Lifecycle
Consumer
Lifecycle
What is API Observability?

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What is API Observability?
"Observability refers to the ability to identify
any outputs from your API operations and use
them to understand the state of your API
landscape."
Kin Lane - blog.postman.com

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API Monitoring
Source: medium.com (Gabriel Nascimento Costa)

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API Observability
Source: medium.com (Gabriel Nascimento Costa)

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12. During this session, we learned how to:
● Discuss what observability means for APIs
● How to look at observability within Postman
● Ad-hoc integrations
● How to do reporting within Postman
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Learning Objectives

13. Q&A
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