# Platform API

Frends offers tasks for [Frends Platform API](https://docs.frends.com/frends-development/frends-platform-api), enabling you to manage Frends directly through an API interface to support your integrations.

By leveraging Frends' task-based approach, you can configure and customize integrations according to your specific requirements. Frends offers a wide range of tasks that facilitate integrations to a variety of systems and protocols.

## Use cases

Below you will find typical use cases for Platform API tasks and how they are implemented.

### Export process logs

Using a schedule trigger and the Platform API [`Request`](https://tasks.frends.com/tasks/Frends-PlatformApi-Request/), you can automatically export process log data to an external logging system or database for centralized monitoring and analysis.

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