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# Governance Dashboard Overview

> For the full documentation index, see: https://docs.mulesoft.com/llms.txt

> [!NOTE] We updated the terminology in the API Governance UI to reflect a broader range of asset
> types. Where Governance previously used "APIs," it now uses "Services." There are no changes to
> functionality. During this transition, you may see a mix of the new and previous terms in our
> documentation.

The Anypoint API Governance Dashboard is a tool designed to help you easily understand the status of
your APIs across your organization and govern your API programs effectively. The dashboard provides
metrics related to the health of your API programs, with direction action available right from the
dashboard, where there is a logical associated action.

## Key Features

The Dashboard provides several key features to help you manage your APIs:

Metrics

Access a pre-built set of metrics to understand your API surface area.

Actions

Each metric is associated with potential actions you can take from the dashboard to improve your API
posture.

Organization-wide Visibility

View a pre-built set of metrics for each of your organizations.

Clear Status Overview

Instantly see the status of your APIs, including those that are unprotected, governed, in Exchange,
and in production.

API Type Breakdown

Understand the distribution of your APIs by type (for example, REST API, AsyncAPI, HTTP API, gRPC,
Agent, MCP).

Governance Insights

Gain visibility into your governance posture, including the number of governed services, their
conformance status, and nonconformance severity.

## Dashboard Metrics

The **Key Metrics** section is a core component of the API Governance Dashboard. It offers a
pre-built suite of metrics designed to provide a clear view of API status across your organization.
This visibility helps you make informed decisions and improve your organization’s API quality by
identifying conformance issues and enabling you to resolve those issues. Each metric is associated
with a collection of APIs and an action to take on those APIs.

## Unprotected APIs

Definition

APIs in your catalog that are **not currently managed in API Manager**.

Displayed Count

The dashboard shows the total count of such APIs.

Actionable Metrics

Create a profile to govern some or all of your unprotected APIs, or view detailed API lists, to help
you address issues or improve your API program.

## Governed Services

Definition

The **Total services governed under a profile in API Governance**.

Displayed Count

The dashboard displays the total number of governed services.

Actionable Metrics

**View Services** takes you to the Governance Console, where you can view a list of governed
services with details and the option to download a list of governed services.

## APIs in Exchange

Definition

APIs in your catalog that are in Exchange.

Displayed Count

The dashboard shows the count of all APIs in Exchange.

## APIs in Production

Definition

APIs in your catalog that are deployed in a production environment.

Displayed Count

The dashboard shows the count of all APIs in production.

Actionable Metrics

**View APIs** takes you to the Governance Console, where you can view a list of APIs in production
with details and the option to download a list of APIs in production.

## APIs by Type

Definition

APIs in your catalog by type, specifically **REST API, AsyncAPI, HTTP API, gRPC, Agent, and MCP**.

Displayed Count

The dashboard shows the count of all APIs by type.

Actionable Metrics

**View APIs** takes you to the Governance Console, where you can view a list of APIs by type with
details and the option to download a list of APIs by type.

## Governance Usage by Profile Type

Definition

Total number of APIs governed.

Breakdown

APIs governed by **Active** profiles versus those in **Draft Only** profiles.

## Conformance Status

Definition

APIs conformance status.

Displayed Count

The dashboard shows the count of all governedAPIs by conformance status.

Breakdown

API counts by conformance status, showing **Conformant** and **Not Conformant** APIs.

## Nonconformance by Severity

Definition

Total number Nonconformant APIs.

Breakdown by Severity

Nonconformances based on their severity level: **High, Medium, and Low**.

## Taking Action from the Dashboard

From the dashboard, you can often take direct action, such as:

Creating Governance Profiles

Initiate the creation of new governance profiles to start governing unprotected APIs or APIs in
production.

Viewing API Lists

Navigate to detailed lists of APIs based on the displayed metrics (for example, view all unprotected
APIs, APIs in production, or APIs by type).

## Creating Governance Profiles from the Dashboard

The API Governance Dashboard UI guides you through creating profiles. When you take action from the
Dashboard to create a profile, your profile is prepopulated with the APIs that match the filter
criteria from the Dashboard.

Note: The Governance Dashboard is available to all MuleSoft orgs out-of-the box. If you take action
to create a governance profile, the APIs targeted by the profile will be metered.

### Create a Governance Profile for Unprotected APIs

If you click **Create Profile** from the **Unprotected APIs** section of the Dashboard, your draft
profile is prepopulated with the following:

- The profile name is **Unprotected APIs**.

- All unprotected APIs are included by the filter criteria.

- The **Anypoint Best Practices** and **Authentication Security** rulesets are selected.

- Notifications are enabled for the profile.

- You can change any settings, including selecting rulesets and filter criteria, to further refine
  the profile.

- You can save the profile as a draft or activate it.

- After you save the profile as a draft, you can view the conformance information for the APIs in
  the profile.

- After you activate the profile, you can view the conformance information for the APIs in the
  profile outside of the draft profile view.

You can then review your profile and click **Save as a draft** or **Save as active**:

- Save a profile as draft to test profile settings and review conformance information before showing
  the conformance information for its targeted APIs outside of the draft profile view.

- Save a profile as active to show the conformance information outside of the draft profile view.

When you save a profile as either draft or active, its targeted APIs become governed.

### Create a Governance Profile for APIs in Production

If you click **Create Profile** from the **APIs in Production** section of the Dashboard, your draft
profile is prepopulated with the following:

- The profile name is **APIs in Production**.

- APIs with instances in a production environment are included by the filter criteria.

- The **Mule API Management** ruleset is selected.

- Notifications are enabled for the profile.

- You can change any settings, including selecting rulesets and filter criteria, to further refine
  the profile.

- You can save the profile as a draft or activate it.

- After you save the profile as a draft, you can view the conformance information for the APIs in
  the profile.

- After you activate the profile, you can view the conformance information for the APIs in the
  profile outside of the draft profile view.

You can then review your profile and click **Save as a draft** or **Save as active**:

- Save a profile as draft to test profile settings and review conformance information before showing
  the conformance information for its targeted APIs outside of the draft profile view.

- Save a profile as active to show the conformance information outside of the draft profile view.

When you save a profile as either draft or active, its targeted APIs become governed.
