My previous post presented “A Graphical View of API Performance Based on Call Location.” In that post, we analyzed the performance of a week of calls to the World Bank Countries API (which is served from Washington DC) from four different locations around the globe: Washington DC USA, Oregon USA, Ireland, and Tokyo Japan. The API performance across the week showed remarkable consistency. Calls to the API from Washington DC had by far the best performance; calls from Ireland generally outperformed calls from Oregon, which generally outperformed calls from Tokyo. Here’s the data for the week (the Y axis is logarithmic)
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How to Create an Automated Custom Web Site that Displays API Uptime Data
Previous posts described how to use curl, cron, JSON, Python, matplotlib, and HTML to create an automatically-updated custom API performance web page. In addition to providing API performance data, the API Science API also provides uptime data for the APIs you monitor. In this post, I’ll demonstrate how to download API uptime data and create […]
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You’ve got a product that requires many nines of uptime. If an API (external or internal) that your product requires is down, your own product is down, or key aspects of it are down. This article describes how you can utilize the API Science API to assess problems as they occur, and alert your team […]
Continue reading7 Ways to Customize API Monitoring Using Global and Local Variables
It is possible to configure API monitors with rigidly fixed parameters. However, using the API Science platform, it is also possible to configure API monitors using both account-wide global variables and monitor-specific local variables, in order to provide your team with a deeper view into what your customers are experiencing. Introduction to API Science’s Global […]
Continue readingWith APIs and Software Libraries, How Much Code Is Needed to Create Something Immensely Useful? Not Much…
Your business likely requires customized views of the data that is core to the creation of your product. Decades ago, accomplishing this involved development of large data analysis software libraries that were customized to a company’s particular needs, along with user interfaces that enabled employees to view the data, so they could respond to anomalies. […]
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For your company to succeed, your API-based product must provide maximal performance and uptime to your customers. In order to provide this, you need to monitor the APIs (both internal and external) that are critical for your product’s customer experience. This series of posts illustrates how you can create a custom automated web site that […]
Continue readingHow to Use MatPlotLib to Display API Performance Data
In my previous two posts, I illustrated how your team can Use cron and curl to Regularly Download API Performance Data and How to Use Python to Extract API Performance Data. In this post, I illustrate how you can use the Python MatPlotLib library to create plots of the downloaded data that will be of […]
Continue readingHow to Use Python to Extract JSON API Performance Data
In my last post, I described How to Use cron and curl to Regularly Download API Performance Data. This is the first step toward creating a view of API performance data that is customized for your company’s needs. Once you have the raw data, you can use your company’s preferred programming languages and the custom […]
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API performance is critical for modern applications. People use their phones and tablets to immediately access information that is relevant to what they’re doing or thinking about right now. If your company’s objective is to provide this information, then you need to know how your product appears to your customers. If your product relies on […]
Continue readingHow to Use Your API Science One-Month Free Trial (Part 3)
When you’ve created and configured your first API Science monitor, you’ll want to configure automated notifications to your team when something involving a critical external or internal API goes awry. You’ll also want to study the performance of your critical APIs using API Science reports. Configuring API Monitor Notifications While your customers access your product […]
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