When you are logged into your API Science account, at the top of the page you will see a “Reports” navigation link. Clicking this brings you to the “Create Report” page: From here, you can run four different reports for any of your monitors, over selectable time ranges. Some reports have the option to include […]
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Evaluating the Performance of Critical APIs Using API Science’s Data Analysis Tools
The API Science API monitoring platform provides an array of data analysis tools for viewing the performance of internal or external APIs that are critical to your product, from the top level (represented by our weekly summary report) down to the fine-grain details of the results from a single test run of an individual monitor. […]
Continue readingAPI Performance Outliers Based on Location
Monitoring API performance from various locations around the world is critical in order for you to know what your global customers are experiencing. The “Weekly API Science Report” that you receive with your API Science membership provides a good summary of the status of the APIs you are monitoring. A week ago, for my post […]
Continue readingConfiguring API Science API Monitor Notifications
My last post described how you can use the API Science API monitor settings to configure what constitutes success each time your monitor is run. While your customers access your product on a 24/7 basis, your data center probably runs unattended during off-work hours. So, what happens if an API (internal or external) that’s critical […]
Continue readingWorking with API Science API Monitor Settings
In an earlier post, we created a new API Science monitor that tests the World Bank’s Countries API. Our World Bank Countries API monitor was created using the minimum possible configuration: the monitor simply executes an HTTP GET for the URL: http://api.worldbank.org/countries/br However, the API Science monitoring platform provides options for much more comprehensive configuration […]
Continue readingWhy Location Matters in API Performance Testing
In his 2014 book Flash Boys, Michael Lewis talks about a massively expensive project that burrowed through mountains, tunneled under riverbeds, dug trenches beside country roads, with the objective of creating “maybe the most insistently straight path ever dug into the earth” between Chicago and New Jersey. Why? So that “a one-and-a-half-inch-wide hard black plastic […]
Continue readingCreating Your First API Science API Monitor
Your API Science free 30-day trial includes sample API monitors that enable you to immediately explore the capabilities the API Science platform provides. But if you’ve come to API Science, it’s probably because your work utilizes APIs (external or internal) and you recognize the need to know the uptime of these APIs and their performance […]
Continue readingExploring Your API Science Free Trial
When you start your free API Science 30-day trial, you are immediately provided with an API Dashboard that has been preconfigured with API monitors that let you explore the capabilities the API Science platform provides. Your dashboard provides an overview of present and recent statuses for all of your API monitors. The columns for each […]
Continue readingWelcome to API Science
Welcome to API Science. You are probably here because your work involves use of Application Program Interfaces (APIs), and the service you provide suffers when the APIs you use (external or internal) experience outages. In this global economy, it’s morning in Asia when it’s late night in the Americas, and vice-versa. This means that if […]
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