How to Use MatPlotLib to Display API Performance Data

June 13, 2018 Kevin Farnham API Monitoring, API Science API, Integrations, JSON, Performance, Reporting, Teams

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 value to your API performance monitoring team.

In the first article, we utilized the API Science Performance Report API to download JSON data and store it in a file on our local disk. In the second article, we created a Python script that reads the JSON text file into a Python dictionary. Now, we can use MatPlotLib to create plots of the data in the Python dictionary…

How to Use Python to Extract JSON API Performance Data

June 6, 2018June 13, 2018 Kevin Farnham API Monitoring, API Science API, Integrations, JSON, Performance, Reporting

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 […]

How to Use cron and curl to Regularly Download API Performance Data

May 30, 2018June 6, 2018 Kevin Farnham API Monitoring, API Science API, JSON, Performance, Reporting, Teams

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 […]

Using Account Global Variables to Receive API Monitor Data in Specific Formats

April 10, 2018April 17, 2018 Kevin Farnham API Monitoring, API Science API, JavaScript, JSON, Multi-Step Monitoring

My last post illustrated that calls to the World Bank Countries API can be configured to output the API data in multiple formats, including XML and JSON. The API Science platform supports the creation of global variables that are accessible by all API monitors in a user’s account. Global variables are defined and set using […]

Configuring API Monitors for Specific Response Formats

March 27, 2018April 10, 2018 Kevin Farnham API Monitoring, API Science API, Global Monitoring, JavaScript, JSON, Multi-Step Monitoring

Global variables can be utilized to store any kind of data that is needed as a reference resource within a complex API monitoring process. For example, global variables can be created by one API monitor, then that data store can be read as input data by another API monitor. In my post Introduction to API […]

7 Ways to Validate that Your APIs Are Working Correctly

February 21, 2018March 19, 2018 Kevin Farnham API Best Practices, API Monitoring, API Science API, JavaScript, JSON, Performance

Online products that provide a complex service typically rely on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), utilizing online resources to provide basic information. The added value is in how their own software uses this information to create a new product that is of value to their users. The APIs that are utilized to create this unique product […]

Why You Need to Monitor Your Product’s External and Internal APIs

January 31, 2018February 21, 2018 Kevin Farnham API Best Practices, API Monitoring, API Science API, Performance

If your company provides a web service, then maximizing your site’s uptime and providing your customer with the latest information your service provides should be prime objectives. Depending on what’s happening at the exact moment a customer makes a request to your service (clicks a button, enters text, clicks an image, etc.), your software must […]

Utilizing the API Science Platform to Maximize Uptime for Your Customers

January 22, 2018January 31, 2018 Kevin Farnham API Monitoring, API Science API, Getting Started, Performance, Reporting

So, you’ve invented a great new product that everyone who has a smartphone or tablet can access. Your product’s uniqueness is embedded in your internal software, but you also rely on data accessed from external APIs. Your software includes internal APIs utilized by the product you present to your customers as they interact with your […]

Tutorial: Creating Custom API Monitor Dashboards Using Javascript and JSON

January 15, 2018January 28, 2018 Kevin Farnham API Monitoring, API Science API, Integrations, JavaScript, JSON, Teams

API monitoring platforms like API Science provide the means for monitoring the APIs that are critical for your application. With the API Science platform, you can check APIs for uptime and performance each minute, define alerts that will be sent to your team based on the latest status of those APIs, review the performance history […]

Creating Custom Consoles Using API Monitor Data

December 18, 2017January 15, 2018 Kevin Farnham API Monitoring, API Science API, Integrations, JavaScript, Reporting

My last post illustrated how you can access API monitor data and display it on a web page. The demonstration software in that post calls the API Science API and displays the response text on a web page. The response from a call to the API Science API is a JSON formatted string, for example: […]