Large organizations that have existed for centuries have employed computer technology since its innovation. 50 years ago, large-scale organizations contracted developers to utilize 1960s software and hardware technology to create systems that advantageously advanced the accomplishment of their missions. In subsequent decades, this software was tuned for evolving situations. Along the way, errors identified in […]
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APIs and Hotel/Motel Rooms: A Real-Life Business Case
In the modern economy, where people are connected via smart-phones, tablets, texting platforms, etc., a customer’s need to quickly find lodging for a suddenly desired trip or brief vacation is well known. Hotel and motel chains provide web sites that show customers what rooms are available at each location at any future time period. Meanwhile, […]
Continue readingTutorial: Creating Custom API Monitor Dashboards Using Javascript and JSON
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 […]
Continue readingCreating Custom Consoles Using API Monitor Data
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: […]
Continue readingUsing JQuery and AJAX to Display API Data on a Web Page
My last post demonstrated how JavaScript and JQuery can be used to make a API call and embed the response into a Document Object Model (DOM) instance. In this post, I show how to access the API response data and present it on the web page. This is the next step in illustrating how the API Science API can be utilized to develop custom consoles and other applications that address your particular needs.
Continue readingIntroduction: Javascript and Custom API Dashboards
Javascript provides the capability for a company whose product is based on APIs to create custom dashboards that show their team the current status of the APIs that are critical for their product. If certain APIs are down, then their product is either down or partially down from the point of view of their customers. […]
Continue readingTemplates: Reusable Building Blocks for Complex API Monitoring
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 […]
Continue readingIntegrating 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 […]
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