# Visualizing federated GraphQL APIs with GraphOS Studio

DevFeed: [Visualizing federated GraphQL APIs with GraphOS Studio](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/visualizing-federated-graphql-apis-with-graphos-studio-23568.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.apollographql.com/blog/visualizing-federated-graphql-apis-with-graphos-studio>)

Author: Vivek Ravishankar

Published: 2024-03-26T12:20:22Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Apollo Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/apollo-blog.md>)

Topics: [GraphOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphos.md>), [GraphQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphql.md>), [Microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microservices.md>), [backends](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backends.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>)

Tags: [announcement](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announcement.md>), [graphos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graphos.md>), [graphql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graphql.md>), [graphql-federation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graphql-federation.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [schema](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/schema.md>), [visualization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/visualization.md>)

## AI overview

Apollo announces native schema visualization in Apollo GraphOS Studio for federated GraphQL APIs. The feature lets developers and teams explore types, fields, and connections in a graph without running it locally, enabling introspection, or using a separate visualization tool. It also supports subgraph filtering, entity highlighting, shareable views, and an always-up-to-date graph visualization.

## Source excerpt

GraphQL's secret sauce is its ability to act as an abstraction layer for service-oriented backends, translating a sea of microservices into a more human-friendly representation of an organization's data and capabilities. However, as a graph inevitably expands across more and more of the backend, it becomes increasingly difficult for the platform and backend teams that own it to fully understand its structure.