If your product depends on your own internal API, or if your primary customers are users who use your API, then you need to know when your API’s performance is experiencing problems. In my last post I described how you can use the API Science Uptime Report to address an unexpected massive outage related to […]
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Monitoring 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 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 […]
Continue readingDetecting Failed API Monitor Checks Using the API Science API
In my last post, I illustrated how we can use the API Science Checks API endpoint to gather the results of recent checks for an API monitor. In that post, the example check was a successful call for my “br Ireland” monitor, which queries the World Bank Countries API for information about Brazil from a server located in Ireland. My “br_Ireland” monitor has a validation setting that requires an HTTP Response code of “200” in order for the API check to be considered successful…
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 readingUsing the Weekly API Science Report to Improve Customer Experience
Your API Science account automatically provides you with the “Weekly API Science Report” which is delivered by email to the email address associated with your account. Here’s an sample email for an account that runs two API Science monitors: The report proceeds from a performance overview for all of your monitors down to the details […]
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 […]
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