When you’ve created and configured your first API Science monitor, you’ll want to configure automated notifications to your team when something involving a critical external or internal API goes awry. You’ll also want to study the performance of your critical APIs using API Science reports.
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British Army Utilizes APIs for Increased Logistic Efficiency
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 […]
Continue readingUtilizing the API Science Platform to Maximize Uptime for Your Customers
So, you’ve invented a great new product that everyone who has a smartphone or tablet can access. Your product’s uniqueness is embedded in your internal software, but you also rely on data accessed from external APIs. Your software includes internal APIs utilized by the product you present to your customers as they interact with your […]
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 JavaScript and JQuery to Access API Monitor Data
The API Science API provides the capability for your custom software to access information about your API monitors. In this post, I provide an example of how you can create a web page that utilizes JQuery and custom JavaScript to bring data about a specific API monitor into a browser’s Document Object Model (DOM). Once […]
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 readingMonitoring Your API’s Performance Using the API Science API
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 […]
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 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…
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