My previous post talked about what you can do when a massive cyber attack brings down APIs (your own, or external APIs) that are critical for your product.

The API Science API includes a Monitor Reports component that lets your product’s operational software integrate your API monitoring into the ongoing creation of your product. The product you present to your customers changes depending on the status of the APIs that provide the data your product provides to your customers. You need to monitor all APIs that are critical for your product if you are to know when customers might be seeing outages.

One way to do this is to send alerts to your team whenever a critical API goes down. If the outage is not that significant, your team can address the issue and ensure that your customers know you are coping with the outage.

But, in a situation where there is a massive geographical outage, sending an endless succession of alerts to your team may be inadequate…