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2025 API Management Survey

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The survey should take ~8-12 minutes. Your answers will help better understand and leverage modern APIs and integration architectures.

We'll analyze responses and publish our findings in our upcoming API Management Trend Report, scheduled for release this May. Thank you for your participation!

 
1. What are your organization's biggest integration difficulties? Select all that apply.
2. What types of systems does your organization integrate? Select all that apply.
3. What software architecture patterns and styles are in use at your organization? Select all that apply.
4. Select the following types of APIs that you currently work on:
5. Which of the following primary aspects of API management have you contributed to? Select all that apply.
6. Over the last 12 months, has your organization adopted an API-first approach to development?
Which of the following have you observed as direct benefits of API-first development? Select all that apply.
Which of the following have you observed as direct challenges of API-first development? Select all that apply.

Streamlining Your APIs

7. How do you simplify API integration development and maintenance?
Which of the following have you observed as direct benefits of API gateways? Select all that apply.
Which of the following have you observed as direct challenges of API gateways? Select all that apply.
8. Which of the following metrics does your organization track with regard to its APIs? Select all that apply.
9. How does your organization monitor and observe API performance? Select all that apply.
10. What key metrics do you track for API observability? Select all that apply.
11. Which of the following API-related tasks has your organization automated?
Space Cell Completely automatedPartially automatedNot automatedI don't know
Fetching data from external APIs
Generating API endpoints
Deploying APIs to production
Testing APIs

AI for APIs

12. How is your organization currently using AI APIs? Select all that apply.
What type of AI APIs does your organization primarily use?
13. How important are APIs in your organization's AI adoption strategy?
14. How does your organization utilize APIs in edge computing and IoT environments? Select all that apply.
15. What API protocols or standards does your organization use for IoT and edge computing? Select all that apply.

API Security

16. Are security and data privacy top of mind when managing APIs?
17. Which of the following are major API security concerns and/or challenges at your organization? Select all that apply.
18. How does your organization monitor and detect API security threats? Select all that apply.
19. What security measures does your organization use to protect APIs? Select all that apply.

Messaging Infrastructure

20. Which of the following paradigms have you used significantly to make API calls and create API endpoints in the past year? Select all that apply.
Space Cell Make API callsCreate API endpoints
SOAP
REST
GraphQL
gRPC
21. Have you ever worked on transitioning integrations from SOAP to REST?
Why did you adopt REST? Select all that apply.
22. Have you ever worked on transitioning integrations from REST to GraphQL?
Why did you adopt GraphQL? Select all that apply.
23. Do any teams in your organization use GraphQL in production?
Describe your organization's GraphQL architecture:

Background and Experience

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24. What types of software are you currently developing? Select all that apply.
25. What programming language ecosystems does your company use? Select all that apply.
26. What is your primary programming language at work?
Response should be between 0-60 This question requires a valid number format.
28. What best describes your primary role in your company? *This question is required.
29. What is the size of your organization in terms of employees? *This question is required.
30. Do you wish to enter the survey raffle?
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