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 reading7 Ways to Validate that Your APIs Are Working Correctly
Online products that provide a complex service typically rely on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), utilizing online resources to provide basic information. The added value is in how their own software uses this information to create a new product that is of value to their users. The APIs that are utilized to create this unique product […]
Continue readingWhy You Need to Monitor Your Product’s External and Internal APIs
If your company provides a web service, then maximizing your site’s uptime and providing your customer with the latest information your service provides should be prime objectives. Depending on what’s happening at the exact moment a customer makes a request to your service (clicks a button, enters text, clicks an image, etc.), your software must […]
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 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 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 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 […]
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