Testing Services with Playgrounds
Use the playground to try services in your portfolio directly in the enhanced experience—no external tools required. Explore endpoints and tools, configure and send requests, and inspect responses without leaving the service detail page.
Before the playground, understanding a service meant reading its overview and documentation, then copying paths into an external tool such as Postman or the MCP Inspector to see how it behaved. The playground brings that testing loop into the enhanced experience so you can go from reading about a service to exercising it in the same view.
Playground Types
The playground adapts to the type of service you open:
- API playground
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Test an API by exploring its endpoints, configuring authentication and requests, sending calls, and inspecting responses. Serves a similar purpose to the API Console in Anypoint Platform, embedded in the enhanced experience UI. See Testing APIs in the API Playground.
- MCP server playground
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Test an MCP server by exploring and invoking individual tools and inspecting their responses. See Exploring MCP Server Tools in the MCP Playground.
Before You Begin
Before getting started, make sure you have:
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An Anypoint Platform account.
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One of these permissions:
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Exchange: Exchange Viewer
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Exchange: Exchange Contributor
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Exchange: Exchange Administrator
For more information, see Enhanced Experience Permissions.
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Open the Playground
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In Portfolio, open the catalog for the service type (for example APIs or MCP Servers).
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Use the search box to find the service by name or description, or scan the list or grid.
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Select the service to open its detail page.
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Select the Playground tab.
The playground opens with the endpoints or tools available for the service you’re viewing.