API Full Lifecycle Management
Manage all your APIs and services from a single place.
Get centralized visibility and control across all APIs, regardless of origin, architecture, or environment.
Manage, secure, and scale any API.
Manage the entire API journey from creation to retirement on one unified platform.
Deploy gateways to APIs in any environment with ease across cloud, on-premises, or multi-cloud infrastructures.
Apply pre-built or custom policies to individual or groups of APIs and enforce standards at scale.
Manage fine-grained access to APIs with tiered SLAs, natively, or through your identity provider for seamless control.
Maintain the health of all your operations.
Get a complete real-time view of your APIs, dependencies, and integrations to ensure performance and resiliency.
Observe your APIs and integrations in a real-time topological view to quickly identify bottlenecks, dependencies, and performance issues.
Proactively identify threats and keep applications resilient with real-time monitoring and automated responses that prevent downtime.
Precisely diagnose issues and act on them instantly using powerful analytics.
Analyze technical and business insights from a single view so you can make faster decisions with complete context across systems and operations.
Improve your APIs with vital insights.
Analyze KPIs, identify trends, and get instant alerts about policy violations and unusual user activity.
Analyze the quality of APIs with performance metrics including latency, availability, and error rates for an optimal user experiences.
Improve your security posture by detecting policy violations instantly so you can address threats before they escalate.
Gain insights into user interactions with your APIs by tracking usage patterns, popular endpoints, and user behavior to optimize performance.
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Develop APIs faster with automation.
Design quality APIs quickly with built-in testing, documentation, and governance validation.
Deploy APIs in any environment.
Support your AI and integration projects with flexible deployment options that run anywhere, in our cloud or yours.
Secure APIs with multi-layer protection.
Protect APIs from threats, enforce security rules automatically, and stay compliant with no downtime.
Reuse APIs for faster development.
Discover, share, and reuse pre-built APIs and connectors across your entire organization.
Leveraging the MuleSoft platform, we can monitor the real-time flow of data between our systems. From our website to our ERP, we can monitor how our systems and processes are performing.
Christopher NelsonSe. Director for Business Applications, Splunk
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Full Lifecycle Management Frequently Asked Questions
Full lifecycle management covers the entire API journey from design through retirement—including creation, testing, publishing, securing, monitoring, versioning, and decommissioning. Standard API management typically focuses only on runtime aspects like securing and monitoring already-built APIs, missing the design and implementation phases that full lifecycle solutions provide.
Look for design tools (API specs and mocking), developer portals for discovery and reuse, security policies and governance, real-time monitoring and analytics, version management, testing automation, deployment across any environment, integration with CI/CD pipelines, and a unified platform that connects all these capabilities rather than requiring multiple disconnected tools.
MuleSoft's Anypoint Platform is recognized as a leader by Gartner for full lifecycle API management. It uniquely combines API management with integration (iPaaS) in one platform, supports hybrid deployments, processes 60+ billion transactions monthly, provides enterprise-grade security and governance, and scales to handle complex, mission-critical workloads across global organizations.
MuleSoft's Anypoint Platform covers every stage: Design with visual API Designer, Build with Anypoint Studio and pre-built connectors, Test with automated MUnit testing, Deploy to any environment (cloud/on-prem/hybrid), Secure with policies and governance, Monitor with real-time analytics and dependency mapping, and Manage with version control and retirement capabilities—all from one unified platform.
Yes, MuleSoft fully supports DevOps practices with native CI/CD integration. It works with GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab, and other tools through APIs and CLI. You can automate, build, test, and deployment processes, integrate with Maven for dependency management, use MUnit for automated testing, and manage the entire API lifecycle through your existing DevOps toolchain.
Healthcare (patient data integration, EHR systems), financial services (payment processing, customer data), retail and e-commerce (omnichannel experiences, inventory), manufacturing (IoT, supply chain), telecommunications (customer provisioning, network management), and government (citizen services) all benefit significantly. Any industry handling complex integrations, strict compliance, or digital transformation initiatives sees major value.
Absolutely. MuleSoft supports cloud-native deployments (CloudHub), containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker via Runtime Fabric), on-premises data centers, and hybrid architectures—all managed from a single platform. You can deploy APIs anywhere and manage them centrally, making it ideal for organizations with mixed infrastructure or cloud migration strategies.