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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How to Use Your API Science One-Month Free Trial (Part 2)
Part 1 of this series introduced the API Science platform and described the basics of how you can utilize your free one-month trial to monitor and evaluate the internal and external APIs that are critical for your platform to be fully functional. Once you have signed up and reviewed what API Science offers, the sensible […]
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API Science provides new users with a free one month trial. In this post I’ll outline ways you can utilize your free trial to explore the features API Science offers. APIs are an essential component of almost every modern online product. If your product is an app, then you’re providing your customers with information of […]
Continue readingUtilizing the API Science Platform to Maximize Uptime for Your Customers
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 […]
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Monitoring the performance and uptime of the internal and external APIs that your product depends on is critical if you are to maintain customer satisfaction. However, there is a difference between the performance and uptime of a generic call to an API, and a call that requests a specific subset of information. A request for […]
Continue readingCreating a Multi-Step API Monitor
One of the unique features of the API Science platform is the capability to create multi-step API monitors, wherein multiple API calls are chained together into a single monitor. If your product requires multiple API calls in order to produce the result you deliver to your customer, you could create a collection of standard single-call […]
Continue readingWhat Do Curl Timings Mean?
API Science monitor checks gather statistics that provide a means for analyzing multiple aspects of API performance. For example, clicking on a monitor name from your API Dashboard brings up a summary screen that includes a bar plot detailing the performance for the last 10 API checks: Each bar consists of four sub-bars that are […]
Continue readingAPI Science API Monitor Reports
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 […]
Continue readingEvaluating 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 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 […]
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