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 […]
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 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 readingWhat to Do when a Massive Cyber Attack Brings Down APIs
In mid-May, a massive global cyber attack was executed that affected major companies in more than 150 countries. Major victims of the attack included Britain’s National Health Service, “causing widespread disruptions and interrupting medical procedures across hospitals in England and Scotland.” Other major victims included Spain’s Telefonica, Deutsche Bahn (Germany’s national railway service), French carmaker […]
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 […]
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 readingWhy You Should Never Shut Down Your API Servers (unless you absolutely have to)
The ongoing global Ransomeware cyber attack has “hit 200,000 victims in at least 150 countries” according to Europe’s cross-border police agency, Europol: Europol Director Rob Wainwright said the global reach of the attack was “unprecedented” and “pretty indiscriminate,” affecting everything from hospitals and schools to auto giants. “We’ve never seen anything like this,” he told […]
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