1. In association with a Web API ecosystem and one or more Web API users, a computer implemented method comprising the steps of: identifying specified events over a given period of time that respectively affect the Web API ecosystem, wherein at least one of the events comprises an interaction between the Web API ecosystem and either a Web API user, or a specified Web API, selectively; constructing a data structure that contains a data element representing each identified event; and using a specified interface to translate respective data elements between the data structure and a specified data store, wherein the specified data store represents each translated data element in a form which is different from the form used to represent the data element in the specified data structure.