Overview#
The Usage category provides essential APIs for monitoring, tracking, and managing your service consumption and account balance. These endpoints allow you to access detailed usage reports, summarized usage statistics, and current balance information, enabling you to make informed decisions about resource allocation, budget planning, and service utilization. This category is crucial for maintaining financial oversight of your API consumption and ensuring you stay within your allocated limits.Parent Category: Root
Child Categories: None
APIs in this category: Usage Report, Usage Summary, Balance
Key Capabilities#
Main Functionality
The Usage category provides comprehensive visibility into your service consumption patterns, detailed transaction history, and current account balance, allowing for effective resource management and financial planning.
Usage Monitoring
Track detailed usage metrics and consumption patterns across all services, with comprehensive reporting capabilities that help identify trends and optimize resource allocation.
Financial Oversight
Access current balance information and transaction history to maintain clear visibility of your account status and ensure proper budget management.
Usage Analysis
Generate summarized usage statistics that provide actionable insights into service utilization, helping identify optimization opportunities and forecast future needs.
Common Use Cases#
Monitoring API call volumes to ensure cost-effective integration with payment processors
Tracking transaction-based API usage for accurate client billing and reconciliation
Analyzing usage patterns to optimize resource allocation during peak financial periods
Integration Considerations#
Best Practices
Schedule regular automated usage report retrievals to maintain consistent visibility into consumption patterns
Implement alerts based on balance thresholds to avoid service interruptions due to insufficient funds
Combine usage summary data with your business metrics to calculate ROI on API investments
Store historical usage data to enable long-term trend analysis and forecasting
Reports are only available for requests made in the current calendar year
Usage data may have a processing delay of up to 24 hours before appearing in reports
High-frequency polling of these endpoints may be rate-limited to ensure system performance
Detailed transaction-level data may be aggregated for periods older than 90 days
How APIs in this Category Work Together#
The Usage category APIs form a comprehensive system for monitoring and managing your service consumption from high-level summaries down to detailed transaction reports, while maintaining visibility of your account balance.Key Integration Patterns:Usage Summary + Balance: Quickly assess overall consumption patterns alongside current account status to ensure sufficient funds for ongoing operations
Usage Report + Usage Summary: Compare detailed transaction data with aggregated metrics to identify specific high-usage periods or anomalies
Balance + Usage Report: Correlate account balance changes with specific transaction activities to maintain accurate financial records
Account Management: While Usage focuses on consumption and balance, Account Management handles user permissions, profile settings, and administrative functions
Billing: Usage data directly informs billing processes, with the Billing category handling invoice generation, payment processing, and subscription management
Analytics: Usage data can be combined with Analytics APIs to correlate service consumption with business outcomes and performance metrics
