The API Science API includes a templates API. A template is the code that represents “a single URL request.” In a sense, then, a template is the equivalent of a software subroutine or function. It is called to perform an action that produces a specified output based on a specific set of input parameters. The template is a subroutine that embeds a call to another “subroutine” that is located on a remote server: our template’s HTTP call to that API sends the input data, and the template gathers the returned result, typically in the form of a JSON or XML response…
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Integrating Human Resources with API Monitoring
Organizations are organic: they change over time, with new employees coming on board, current employees switching job roles, and other employees departing. If you are monitoring APIs and you have a list of employees who are to be notified if a problem is discovered with a specific API, then you need to have an up-to-date […]
Continue readingMonitoring Your API’s Uptime Using the API Science API
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 […]
Continue readingIntegrating API Monitoring into Your Product’s Operational Workflow
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. You are monitoring the APIs that are key for your product, and have alerts configured so that your development and QA […]
Continue readingModifying Groups of API Monitors Using Tags
In recent posts, I’ve described how you can use API Science’s API to evaluate API monitor checks, detect failed checks, and use tags to group API monitors. If you’ve integrated the monitoring of your product’s performance and availability using the API Science API, it’s also possible to take the next step of modifying your monitors […]
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Many online products require gathering information from many different data sources. If your product queries multiple APIs (external or internal), then it is vital for your team to monitor those APIs in order to assess whether your product appears up, partially up, or down. My last two posts described how you can use the API […]
Continue readingEvaluating API Monitor Checks Using the API Science API
Your API monitoring team can be alerted when an API that’s critical for your product goes down using API Science’s alerts capability, which provides the ability to notify your team about problems using email, a URL, Slack, PagerDuty, and HipChat. These methods can be extended using tools like IFTTT (IF This Then That) such that […]
Continue readingUsing Slack, Zapier, HipChat, PagerDuty, IFTTT, and Todoist to Broadcast API Monitor Alerts
Today, many companies have employees that work from diverse locations around the globe. If your company’s product relies on APIs (internal and/or external), your team needs to know immediately when a critical API goes down or starts delivering invalid information. But how can you quickly communicate problems of this type to your global team? The […]
Continue readingImporting Swagger, RAML, Postman, and HAR API Representations to Create API Monitors
The importance of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) continues to grow, as established and start-up vendors recognize their utility both as the foundation of their own products and as a means by which they can sell their services to other companies as components of new products. Because of this, publishing representations of APIs has gained currency: […]
Continue readingImporting HTTP Archive (HAR) Files to Create API Monitors
The HTTP Archive (HAR) format is a JSON file format that records the interactions of a web browser and web pages. HAR files can be used, for example, as a means for customers to record interactions with a web service, to record recurring problems and send them to a troubleshooting team. The HAR format can […]
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