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title: Discovered APIs
description: API discovery is a process to discover application programming interface (API) in your API environment.
component: pingintelligence
version: 5.2
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canonical_url: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingintelligence/5.2/managing_pingintelligence_for_apis/pingintelligence_discovered_apis.html
revdate: April 3, 2024
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# Discovered APIs

API discovery is a process to discover application programming interface (API) *(tooltip: \<div class="paragraph">
\<p>A specification of interactions available for building software to access an application or service.\</p>
\</div>)* in your API environment.

The discovery process involves all PingIntelligence components:

* API Security Enforcer (ASE) - A `root` API is defined in ASE for the discovery process to start. The `root` API access log data is sent to API Behavioral Security (ABS) AI engine for processing.

* ABS AI engine - The ASE access logs are processed to discover APIs in your environment.

* Dashboard - Displays, manages, and renders the discovered APIs. Dashboard allows you to edit the discovered APIs and publish them to ASE. To view the APIs discovered from your API ecosystem, navigate to **Discovered APIs** in the Dashboard as shown in the screenshot below.

  ![Screen capture of PingIntelligence discovered APIs showing.](_images/lwv1640177669700.png)