Anypoint API Governance
Keep enterprise APIs compliant, secure, and AI-ready.
Anypoint API Governance ensures consistent API quality and security with self-service tools.
Ensure consistent API quality and security.
Get AI-ready faster by ensuring consistent quality and security without the usual bottlenecks. MuleSoft’s Agent Governance ensures enterprise-grade control and compliance across every agent and system.
Architects can maintain standards with self-service tools, while developers can build with confidence, avoiding lengthy review cycles.
Build consistent standards for APIs and AI protocols.
Set up control groups to define quality standards and apply them across all your APIs, from MuleSoft and third-party platforms to AI protocols like MCP and A2A.
Set up control groups to define quality standards by combining multiple governance rulesets. Apply consistent rules across all APIs with flexibility to override when needed.
Maintain consistent quality and security standards across all your APIs. Apply unified governance rules to every API, from MuleSoft-built APIs to third-party services and legacy systems.
Extend governance to Model Context Protocol and Agent-to-Agent protocol-based APIs. Maintain consistent standards for AI agent communications while staying secure and compliant.
Apply governance across your API's entire journey.
Define governance rules at design time and automatically apply them to live API instances for full lifecycle control.
Create control groups that set design standards using multiple predefined or custom rulesets. Each ruleset acts as a style guide for APIs based on industry regulations or organizational best practices, with flexibility to override rules when needed to keep projects moving.
Make sure both new and existing APIs meet defined governance standards at scale, covering everything from REST to MCP and A2A. Identify the right APIs across all teams, environments, and design tools using filters for asset type, tags, environment, or APIs with instances.
Access and import relevant governance rules from Anypoint Exchange directly into API Designer. Speed up development by reducing review cycles with real-time design and compliance checks. Apply governance rules to API policy instances through API Manager to maintain conformance from design to deployment.
Review how well all your APIs meet quality and security standards using the API Governance console. Find APIs with issues and improve their quality through regular checks and automated notifications. Extend governance to API instances managed by API Manager for complete end-to-end coverage.
Monitor compliance and validate APIs in real-time.
Check API compliance as you design to speed up development, and monitor the quality of your entire API portfolio through one unified dashboard.
Reduce review cycles by validating conformance during API design. Check that APIs follow the rules as you build them to avoid delays and keep development on track.
View compliance status across your entire API ecosystem from one dashboard. Spot APIs that don't meet standards, see compliance trends, and take action to improve overall quality.
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Anypoint API Governance Frequently Asked Questions
Anypoint API Governance is a component of Anypoint Platform that enables you to apply governance rules to your APIs as part of the API lifecycle. It ensures consistent API quality and security with self-service tools that help define standards for API quality with control groups and apply standards consistently to any API. Think of it as a quality control system that automatically checks your APIs against your organization's standards and best practices throughout their entire development lifecycle.
API governance helps save time and money, because it achieves consistency and completeness of API designs, allowing them to be easily discoverable and reused, and ensures that APIs are compliant with API best practices for design, development, deployment, and consumption. It accelerates development by cutting down on review cycles with design and compliance checks in real-time. Instead of catching issues after APIs are built, governance identifies problems early in the design phase, reducing costly rework and ensuring APIs meet quality standards from day one.
The key benefits include centralized governance across all APIs regardless of where they're built, self-service tools that avoid overhead caused by conformance review cycles, and the ability to customize and publish governance rulesets to share and enforce organization-specific best practices with your developers. The API Governance Dashboard provides a comprehensive view of your API ecosystem and enables you to take action to improve governance and quality, helping you monitor API health, ensure policy conformance, and identify vulnerabilities proactively.
You can enforce governance within your DevOps organization by automating API governance in your CI/CD pipeline using CLI commands or through API solutions using the experience API. With Anypoint API Catalog CLI, you can discover and catalog any API including their related metadata and documentation using a CI/CD plugin. Ruleset(s) can be imported from Anypoint Exchange into the API definition within the Design Center, allowing architects to catch governance inconsistencies early during the design phase of an API.
You can seamlessly access and import applicable governance rules from Anypoint Exchange into API Designer, which means developers see governance issues in real-time as they design APIs. Governance rulesets are collections of rules, or guidelines, that can be applied over the metadata extracted from APIs in Anypoint Platform, covering everything from naming conventions to security requirements like HTTPS encryption. You can apply consistent rules from design time to deployment using governance rulesets to apply governance in one place to multiple aspects of your APIs.
For large organizations, centralized API governance provides a comprehensive view of your API ecosystem that allows you to monitor the health and governance status of your API programs and respond to key insights. The API Governance Dashboard offers an organization-wide view of your API landscape, allowing you to quickly grasp the overall status of your APIs and identify areas that require attention. You can validate which APIs are governed or non-conformant to your policies while keeping tabs on which APIs are public or sensitive, unsecured or unprotected, and even which are missing documentation. This eliminates the complexity of managing governance across multiple teams and ensures consistent standards across your entire API portfolio.