API Observation gives you the ability to find APIs your organization may have forgotten about and that
pose a security risk because they are out of date, unsecured, or unmonitored. API Observation
Shadow API Discovery finds these
"shadow" APIs in your organization.
API Observation is part of Advanced API Security, which is a paid add-on to Apigee and
hybrid.
To use API Observation, you must first enable Advanced API Security:
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