API subscription checklist
Before you move an API subscription into production, confirm that the service, billing terms, and integration path match your application requirements.Subscription details
- Confirm the included usage, overage rules, renewal period, and cancellation terms.
- Check whether failed requests, retries, or rate-limited requests can affect billing.
- Save the plan details in your internal documentation.
Integration readiness
- Test authentication with a non-production key.
- Run basic success, error, and rate-limit scenarios.
- Confirm the API returns errors your application can handle.
- Add logs that connect API calls to user actions or internal jobs.
Security review
- Store keys in environment variables or a secret manager.
- Limit who can create, view, and rotate keys.
- Rotate keys when team access changes.
- Review Security and privacy before production traffic.