# Cloudflare API Shield Reference

Expert guidance for API Shield - comprehensive API security suite for discovery, protection, and monitoring.

## In This Reference

- **[configuration.md](./configuration.md)** - Setup, session identifiers, rules, token/mTLS configs
- **[api.md](./api.md)** - Endpoint management, discovery, validation APIs, GraphQL operations
- **[patterns.md](./patterns.md)** - Common patterns, progressive rollout, OWASP mappings, workflows
- **[gotchas.md](./gotchas.md)** - Troubleshooting, false positives, performance, best practices

## Quick Start

API Shield: Enterprise-grade API security (Discovery, Schema Validation, JWT, mTLS, Sequence Enforcement). Available as Enterprise add-on with preview access.

## See Also

- [API Shield Docs](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/)
- [API Reference](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/api_gateway/)
- [OWASP API Security Top 10](https://owasp.org/www-project-api-security/)