APIÂ Discovery
The Wallarm API Discovery module, part of Wallarm API Security Platform, provides runtime visibility for your entire API portfolio, allowing you to:
- Regain control over your API attack surface and reduce associated risk
- Inventory, track and correct issues based on actual user traffic

Do You Need API Discovery?
APIs are crucial to your organization. And the first step to securing all your APIs is to get full visibility into where they are, what they're meant to do, and how they're doing it.

Organizations struggle to manage the explosive growth in API use, both externally and internally – which means a sizable and expanding attack surface.

Gartner estimates that by 2025, less than 50% of enterprise APIs will be properly managed – which conceals a massive chunk of your API estate from security controls.

Reliance on open source, 3rd party, and diverse internal development teams results in a veritable alphabet soup of protocols, languages, and frameworks – which adds complexity and cost to your security stack.

More organizations are pushing more sensitive data through their APIs, including PII, financial & health data, credentials and more – which increases the danger and impact of unintentional or malicious disclosure.
Unparalleled Visibility
Wallarm API Discovery provides visibility into all your web applications and APIs based on actual traffic for focused monitoring and protection.


Track and manage all your API assets to understand your real attack surface and guard against surprises from deprecated or unmanaged endpoints.

Build complete API inventory based on actual usage to identify out-of-spec code, track changes, and keep tabs on sensitive data usage.

Assess and remediate any weaknesses which open you up to attack and automatically implement new protections against attacks.
Regain Control and Reduce Risk
Wallarm API Discovery enables you to inventory, track and correct issues based on actual user traffic.

Discover all your APIs, including Shadow APIs, Rogue APIs, Zombie APIs, and deprecated endpoints—so you can improve control of your attack surface and reduce risk.

Differentiate assets in your portfolio, such as public-facing vs. internal or new vs. old—so you can tailor your security program to focus on critical needs and optimize your security efforts / spend.

Leverage automatically created OpenAPI (Swagger) specs based on actual traffic—so you can reduce security gaps and ensure security team has full visibility.

Get alerts when new APIs pop up or when existing APIs change—so you can minimize API drift and prioritize scrutiny (e.g., pen testing or bug bounty programs) and guard against protection gaps.

Understand sensitive data usage, including PII, financial & health data, credentials and more—so you can ensure compliance with applicable regulations / standards and reduce risk of improper exposure.

Quickly search for and assess latent or active threats such as newly published CVEs or CWEs, on-going brute force attacks, and more—so you can remediate issues before they become problems.
Cloud-Native Integrations
Wallarm integrates easily into your existing workflow, reducing learning curve and duplicative effort – and improving time-to-protection.

























- REST, SOAP, graphQL, gRPC
- Web Applications
- Microservices
- Serverless
- AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM Cloud
- Private, Hybrid and Multi-Cloud
- Kubernetes / Service Mesh
- Zero-Trust
- OWASP Top-10 Threats
- API-specific Threats
- Credential Stuffing
- L7 DDoS and Bots
Trusted by Security & DevOps Teams Globally
Fortune 500 and many other of the world’s largest tech companies rely on Wallarm to protect their APIs and web applications.
Additional Resources
Want more? Here are some supplemental material to learn more about Wallarm API Discovery.

Find out how to get full visibility and regain control over your API attack surface.

Learn how to automatically construct API schemas based on actual user traffic.

As we increasingly rely on APIs to drive business, issues like Rogue APIs, Shadow APIs and Zombie APIs can arise!

What do you know about your APIs? Read up on Wallarm enables you to tackle your API asset management challenges.

How to use the API Discovery module to build API structure for analysis & comparison.
Wallarm helps you develop fast and stay secure.