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# Cloudflare API Shield Reference
Expert guidance for API Shield - comprehensive API security suite for discovery, protection, and monitoring.
## Reading Order
| Task | Files to Read |
|------|---------------|
| Initial setup | README → configuration.md |
| Implement JWT validation | configuration.md → api.md |
| Add schema validation | configuration.md → patterns.md |
| Detect API attacks | patterns.md → api.md |
| Debug issues | gotchas.md |
## Feature Selection
What protection do you need?
```
├─ Validate request/response structure → Schema Validation 2.0 (configuration.md)
├─ Verify auth tokens → JWT Validation (configuration.md)
├─ Client certificates → mTLS (configuration.md)
├─ Detect BOLA attacks → BOLA Detection (patterns.md)
├─ Track auth coverage → Auth Posture (patterns.md)
├─ Stop volumetric abuse → Abuse Detection (patterns.md)
└─ Discover shadow APIs → API Discovery (api.md)
```
## 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 2.0, JWT, mTLS, BOLA Detection, Auth Posture). 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/)