F5 Out-of-Band API Discovery for BIG-IP, NGINX, and 3rd party API Gateways @devcentral
F5 Out-of-Band API Discovery for BIG-IP, NGINX, and 3rd party API Gateways  @devcentral
Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Learn how F5 API Security's out-of-band API Discovery solution provides deep visibility into your API estate without adding latency or routing traffic through Regional Edges. This demo walks through F5 Distributed Cloud's Web App and API Protection (WAAP) capabilities, showing how integrations with BIG-IP, NGINX, and third-party API Gateways enable comprehensive API inventory, sensitive data discovery, and shadow API detection across on-prem, hybrid, and public cloud environments.

Notes:
- Contributed by: Cameron Delano
- Related Article: community.f5.com/kb/technicalarticles/out-of-the-shadows-api-discovery/303789

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