# Operate

> Run API Maker after the APIs are built - the configuration of a server and the settings of databases, tables, APIs and sandboxes, caching and Index Maker, logs and dashboards, Git and upgrades, team work, internationalization, the management API and the connection strings of every database.

Source: https://docs.apimaker.dev/v4/docs/guides/index.html

The **Build** tab tells how to make APIs, code and websites. This tab tells how to run them : set a server up, keep it fast, watch it, ship changes and work as a team.

- [Configuration and settings](https://docs.apimaker.dev/v4/docs/am-resources/api-maker-configurations.html) : The configuration of a server, then the settings of each database, table, API, system API and sandbox.
- [Performance](https://docs.apimaker.dev/v4/docs/features/automatic-caching.html) : Answers from Redis with automatic caching, and the missing indexes found and made by Index Maker.
- [Logs and dashboards](https://docs.apimaker.dev/v4/docs/logs/logs-and-dashboards.html) : Log profiles, the log explorer, the servers of the cluster and the Redis dashboard.
- [Git and deployment](https://docs.apimaker.dev/v4/docs/Git/git.html) : Your project in Git, deployment hooks for CI, and a new version of API Maker on every server.
- [Team work](https://docs.apimaker.dev/v4/docs/features/team-work.html) : One account per developer, database names masked per developer, the code finder and the compare editor.
- [Connection strings](https://docs.apimaker.dev/v4/docs/Database-connection-string/mongodb-connection-strings.html) : MongoDB, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle and SQL Server, with TLS and cloud examples.

## Read in this order

1. [API Maker configuration](https://docs.apimaker.dev/v4/docs/am-resources/api-maker-configurations.html) : what a server starts with.
2. [Connection strings](https://docs.apimaker.dev/v4/docs/Database-connection-string/mongodb-connection-strings.html) : how API Maker reaches your databases.
3. [Database settings](https://docs.apimaker.dev/v4/docs/settings/databaseSettings.html), then the settings of tables, APIs and [sandboxes](https://docs.apimaker.dev/v4/docs/settings/sandboxSettings.html).
4. [Automatic caching](https://docs.apimaker.dev/v4/docs/features/automatic-caching.html) and [Index Maker](https://docs.apimaker.dev/v4/extensions/index_maker/introduction.html) : keep it fast.
5. [Logs and dashboards](https://docs.apimaker.dev/v4/docs/logs/logs-and-dashboards.html) : watch it run.
6. [Git integration](https://docs.apimaker.dev/v4/docs/Git/git.html) and [Deploy API Maker](https://docs.apimaker.dev/v4/docs/features/deploy-api-maker.html) : ship changes and upgrades.
7. [Before you go live](https://docs.apimaker.dev/v4/docs/security/go-live.html) : the checklist of the Security tab.

Two more pages : [Internationalization](https://docs.apimaker.dev/v4/docs/i18/i18.html) answers errors in the language of the caller, and [Operate API Maker using its API](https://docs.apimaker.dev/v4/docs/am-resources/operate-api-maker-using-api.html) creates admin accounts from a script.