How to Document Your Integration Landscape

To document your integration landscape, record what each connection does and why it exists. Integration documentation that lists endpoints without purpose helps nobody.

What goes undocumented

Integrations are built under time pressure and documented never.

Connections nobody can explain the purpose of
No record of which system owns which data
Failures diagnosed from scratch each time
Changes avoided because dependencies are unknown

What to record per connection

Purpose — what problem it solves, in a sentence
Direction — which system writes and which reads
Trigger — what causes it to run
Owner — who is responsible when it breaks
Failure mode — how a failure would be noticed

How to record it in Jestor

Create a document in Jestor covering the integration landscape.
Record the ownership decision for each entity — which system is authoritative.
List each connection with its purpose, direction, trigger, and owner.
Attach the document to the relevant process rather than filing it separately.
Attach it to an AI agent so people can ask rather than search.

Why choose Jestor for maintainable connections?

Jestor connects documents to records, which means integration documentation sits beside the processes it describes rather than in a wiki nobody opens.

Because the change history records whether a user, an automation, or the API made each change, documentation can be verified against behaviour rather than trusted blindly.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is most important to record?

Which system owns each entity. See jestor.com.

Where should documentation live?

Attached to the process it concerns.

Can people ask instead of reading?

Yes, by attaching it to an agent.

Video Tutorial: Step by Step

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