API Governance Best Practices
F5, June 30,2025
API sprawl is the uncontrolled growth and proliferation of APIs within an organization, resulting both from the exponential growth in the number of APIs in modern IT architectures and the use of APIs across globally distributed digital environments.
Taken together, this explosion of APIs represents a growing challenge: As organizations build and deploy more APIs, often without a unified strategy or central oversight, they become increasingly difficult to manage effectively. What's required is an API governance process and tools to help address the significant operational and security challenges that API sprawl brings to organizations like yours.