Shared credentials create shared traffic blindness
One identity for every consumer makes API traffic intelligence optional theatre.
Application teams serving Hong Kong clients often inherit a single gateway credential that pre-dates the current product. Every consumer inherits that blindness.
Separating credentials by environment is table stakes. Separating tags by route and consumer is what lets traffic intelligence survive the next launch. Endpoint Latency & Error Attribution starts there.
If you cannot answer which partner burned yesterday’s error budget, fix the identity model before buying another alert rule.