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What tools do you use for API management?
Do you work with APIs? If yes, how do you keep track of logs, debugging issues, and documenting everything?
Are there any tools you're currently using to make your workflow smoother.
Would love to hear your experiences and recommendations.
Shoutout to Treblle for inspiring this discussion.
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Hoa Nguyen
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PostMan is better even few years ago everyone said that the vscode extension Thunderclient will wipe out but still developers including myself feel more aligned with the postman's ui and its collection feature also the ease of setting parameters, using variables for multiple params its so good to use.
I believe Pendo.io is very underated, but I use it a lot for API event management
Cursor and GPT can produce pretty solid documentation—I'd say it gets about 80% of the job done. I usually organize my endpoints into separate services based on their functionality, which makes it easier to go through each file and generate documentation for that specific service. It’s an efficient process.
I use Fly for deployment, which provides a Grafana instance for each app. This makes searching logs and debugging much easier.
It looks like there’s no single tool that can cover all the needs you mentioned. For debugging APIs, I used to rely on Postman, but now I’m using Postcat because Postman feels too complicated for my simpler use cases. As for tracking logs, that’s usually where an API gateway comes in. Nginx has basic access logs, but it struggles with flow control. I’ve tried both Kong and Apinto, and each has its strengths. I’d love to hear what tools others are using!
