Configuration as Code

Maintain monitoring in human-readable YAML or JSON. Define, manage, version, and update API monitoring configurations as part of your development workflow, using files your teams can review and change together.

feature source: static https://apicontext.com/features/configuration-as-code

Gitready for version control

YAMLhuman-readable monitoring

CI/CDtoolchain friendly

fullprogram configuration

Make monitoring part of development

Change monitoring with every API change.

Configuration as Code lets developers edit application monitoring as part of normal development, keeping checks, schedules, workflows, and alerting aligned with production APIs.

Human-readable config

Write monitoring in YAML or JSON.

Simplify API monitoring and resilience by letting developers define, manage, and update project configurations in files that are easy to read and review.

Define monitoring as YAML or JSON
Keep configuration readable
Review monitoring changes like code

Version control

Track, roll back, and collaborate on monitoring changes.

Configuration is ready for Git or any version control system, enabling change tracking, rollbacks, collaborative updates, and repeatable project management.

Track monitoring changes in Git
Roll back when needed
Collaborate across development teams

Full monitoring program

Manage calls, workflows, schedules, alerts, projects, and users.

Update API call configuration, workflows, schedules, alerting thresholds, projects, and users from a consistent configuration model.

Update API calls and workflows
Manage schedules and alert thresholds
Configure projects and users

Configuration as Code fits Git, CI/CD, project automation, and developer review workflows

Developer workflow: Bring monitoring into the same process as API development. Readable files: Use YAML or JSON that teams can inspect and review. Project-wide config: Cover API calls, workflows, schedules, alerting, projects, and users. Consistency: Keep monitoring consistent across environments and teams. CI/CD friendly: Integrate monitoring changes into existing toolchains. Change visibility: Track rollbacks, reviews, and collaborative updates in version control.

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# Configuration as Code

Canonical URL: https://apicontext.com/features/configuration-as-code
Source: static

Description: Define, manage, version, and update API monitoring configurations as part of your development workflow, using files your teams can review and change together\.

## Summary
Maintain monitoring in human\-readable YAML or JSON\. Define, manage, version, and update API monitoring configurations as part of your development workflow, using files your teams can review and change together\.

## Stats
- Git ready for version control
- YAML human\-readable monitoring
- CI/CD toolchain friendly
- full program configuration

## Page sections

### Change monitoring with every API change\.
Category: Make monitoring part of development
Configuration as Code lets developers edit application monitoring as part of normal development, keeping checks, schedules, workflows, and alerting aligned with production APIs\.

### Write monitoring in YAML or JSON\.
Category: Human\-readable config
Simplify API monitoring and resilience by letting developers define, manage, and update project configurations in files that are easy to read and review\.

- Define monitoring as YAML or JSON
- Keep configuration readable
- Review monitoring changes like code

### Track, roll back, and collaborate on monitoring changes\.
Category: Version control
Configuration is ready for Git or any version control system, enabling change tracking, rollbacks, collaborative updates, and repeatable project management\.

- Track monitoring changes in Git
- Roll back when needed
- Collaborate across development teams

### Manage calls, workflows, schedules, alerts, projects, and users\.
Category: Full monitoring program
Update API call configuration, workflows, schedules, alerting thresholds, projects, and users from a consistent configuration model\.

- Update API calls and workflows
- Manage schedules and alert thresholds
- Configure projects and users

### Configuration as Code fits Git, CI/CD, project automation, and developer review workflows
Developer workflow: Bring monitoring into the same process as API development\. Readable files: Use YAML or JSON that teams can inspect and review\. Project\-wide config: Cover API calls, workflows, schedules, alerting, projects, and users\. Consistency: Keep monitoring consistent across environments and teams\. CI/CD friendly: Integrate monitoring changes into existing toolchains\. Change visibility: Track rollbacks, reviews, and collaborative updates in version control\.

## Key facts
- YAML
- JSON
- Version control
- CI/CD
- Project export
- Git ready for version control
- YAML human\-readable monitoring
- CI/CD toolchain friendly
- full program configuration
- Developer workflow: Bring monitoring into the same process as API development\.
- Readable files: Use YAML or JSON that teams can inspect and review\.
- Project\-wide config: Cover API calls, workflows, schedules, alerting, projects, and users\.
- Consistency: Keep monitoring consistent across environments and teams\.

## Primary entities
- APIContext
- Features
- API monitoring
- OpenTelemetry
- YAML
- JSON
- Version control
- CI/CD
- Project export

## Audience
- API teams
- SRE teams
- platform teams

## Primary links
- [Put API monitoring under version control\.](/contact)