Monitoring Your API’s Uptime Using the API Science API

June 20, 2017 Kevin Farnham Leave a comment API Monitoring, API Science API, Integrations, Reporting, Teams

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 product you present to your customers changes depending on the status of the APIs that provide the data your product provides to your customers. You need to monitor all APIs that are critical for your product if you are to know when customers might be seeing outages.

One way to do this is to send alerts to your team whenever a critical API goes down. If the outage is not that significant, your team can address the issue and ensure that your customers know you are coping with the outage.

But, in a situation where there is a massive geographical outage, sending an endless succession of alerts to your team may be inadequate…

Integrating API Monitoring into Your Product’s Operational Workflow

May 30, 2017June 13, 2017 Kevin Farnham API Monitoring, API Science API, Integrations, Multi-Step Monitoring, Performance

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 […]

Modifying Groups of API Monitors Using Tags

May 25, 2017May 30, 2017 Kevin Farnham API Monitoring, API Science API, Integrations, Performance, Reporting

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 […]

Using Tags to Group API Monitors

May 1, 2017May 16, 2017 Kevin Farnham Leave a comment API Monitoring, API Science API, Integrations, Multi-Step Monitoring, Performance, Test Validation

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 […]

Evaluating API Monitor Checks Using the API Science API

March 23, 2017April 4, 2017 Kevin Farnham Leave a comment API Monitoring, API Science API, Integrations

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 […]

Using Slack, Zapier, HipChat, PagerDuty, IFTTT, and Todoist to Broadcast API Monitor Alerts

January 16, 2017January 30, 2017 Kevin Farnham Alert Rules, API Monitoring, Integrations, Reporting, Teams

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 […]

Importing Swagger, RAML, Postman, and HAR API Representations to Create API Monitors

January 8, 2017January 15, 2017 Kevin Farnham API Monitoring, Integrations

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: […]

Importing HTTP Archive (HAR) Files to Create API Monitors

December 12, 2016January 15, 2017 Kevin Farnham API Monitoring, Integrations

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 […]

Importing Postman Collections to Create API Monitors

December 4, 2016January 15, 2017 Kevin Farnham API Monitoring, Integrations

Postman is a platform that enables you to construct API requests and workflows, test integration suites, document your work, and share your finished product with your team and others. The fundamental building block for a Postman application is a “collection” — which consists of one or more API requests, and scripted actions based on the […]

Importing Swagger API Representations to Create API Monitors

November 17, 2016January 15, 2017 Kevin Farnham API Monitoring, Integrations

Swagger is an open source project that bills itself as “the World’s most popular framework for APIs”: Swagger is a simple yet powerful representation of your RESTful API. With the largest ecosystem of API tooling on the planet, thousands of developers are supporting Swagger in almost every modern programming language and deployment environment. With a […]