Importing RAML API Representations to Create API Monitors

November 22, 2016January 15, 2017 Kevin Farnham API Monitoring

The point of RAML (the RESTful API Modeling Language) is to make it “easy to manage the whole API lifecycle from design to sharing.” If you’ve created a RAML representation for your API, you can easily create an API Science monitor that checks the status of that API, using API Science’s RAML import capability. In […]

Importing Swagger API Representations to Create API Monitors

November 17, 2016January 15, 2017 Kevin Farnham API Monitoring, Integrations

Swagger is an open source project that bills itself as “the World’s most popular framework for APIs”: Swagger is a simple yet powerful representation of your RESTful API. With the largest ecosystem of API tooling on the planet, thousands of developers are supporting Swagger in almost every modern programming language and deployment environment. With a […]

Validating API Responses and Performance Using JavaScript

November 14, 2016January 15, 2017 Kevin Farnham Alert Rules, API Monitoring, JavaScript, Performance, Test Validation

Determining the present state of an API that’s critical to your product’s performance is the reason why companies apply API monitoring on a 24/7 basis. If your product depends on a sequence of calls to multiple APIs (perhaps internal as well as external), your product could appear “down” to your customers if even one of […]