Why is Postman so fantastic?

Overview: lots of IT technical people user Postman for API creation, exploration, testing.  There is so much more to the product than most developers are aware of.  Initially Postman was for developers to explore and test API's, basically a test rig for API's.  Postman built a Minimum Lovable Product (MLP) initially, they have added multiple features over the years and they are so useful.  Most users tend to use the most basic features but could use additional functionality

List of Features I like:

Monitor - Postman has a Monitors option that is great for continuous monitoring, you can link to your collection and run them on a schedule. I like to take a small key set of API's to run every 5 minutes using Monitor to schedule my collection runs (from Postman cloud), this provides me with: Are the APIs running and is their performance decreasing.  The monitoring Dashboards are fantastic, and alerting allows for webhooks or email.  In this post, I monitor API's with OAuth security and send alerts into Microsoft Teams using email on the Teams channels. 

Postman API Builder - Allows me to build OpenAPI contracts and mock the API to allow contract first/API-First  design (UI and backend development can be done independently.  I tend to use Swagger tooling and APIM to mock to do this but I'm very tempted to do use Postman Mock Servers

Postman CLI - This allows me to run collections on my local machine or from a server.  In a post I cover using the Postman CLI to run a postman collections using PowerShell, adding a shortcut to quickly verify and API is running, and I added Elgato Stream Deck so I can click a button and it will run my collection on my laptop. 

More Features: Environments, Tests and collecting responses into variables, Collections, Authentication Reuse, Workspaces, Loading test file data, source control/Git, Pipeline testing Integration,