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 […]
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Creating 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 […]
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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 […]
Continue readingWorking with API Science API Monitor Settings
In an earlier post, we created a new API Science monitor that tests the World Bank’s Countries API. Our World Bank Countries API monitor was created using the minimum possible configuration: the monitor simply executes an HTTP GET for the URL: http://api.worldbank.org/countries/br However, the API Science monitoring platform provides options for much more comprehensive configuration […]
Continue readingCreating Your First API Science API Monitor
Your API Science free 30-day trial includes sample API monitors that enable you to immediately explore the capabilities the API Science platform provides. But if you’ve come to API Science, it’s probably because your work utilizes APIs (external or internal) and you recognize the need to know the uptime of these APIs and their performance […]
Continue readingExploring Your API Science Free Trial
When you start your free API Science 30-day trial, you are immediately provided with an API Dashboard that has been preconfigured with API monitors that let you explore the capabilities the API Science platform provides. Your dashboard provides an overview of present and recent statuses for all of your API monitors. The columns for each […]
Continue readingWelcome to API Science
Welcome to API Science. You are probably here because your work involves use of Application Program Interfaces (APIs), and the service you provide suffers when the APIs you use (external or internal) experience outages. In this global economy, it’s morning in Asia when it’s late night in the Americas, and vice-versa. This means that if […]
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