David O'Neill
COO / CCO
David oversees operations and customer success at APIContext, helping enterprise clients get measurable value from API monitoring.
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- Announcements
Navigating the Future of APIs: A Conversation on Drift, Documentation, and Open Standards
I recently joined the Tapas & Pretzels Podcast from adorsys to discuss the critical challenges and opportunities shaping API ecosystems today. It was a t…
January 14, 2025 - Fintech
Money20/20 Preview: The Business of APIs – Compliance Comes to Technology
APIdays New York was a great event and gave me the opportunity to talk at length about an emerging challenge and topic - API Governance. API evangelist Kin L…
October 25, 2024 - Fintech
Money20/20 Preview: How New CFPB 1033 Rules Could Transform U.S. Banking
One of the most significant pieces of legislation to emerge from the 2008 financial crisis was the Dodd-Frank Act. Given the scale of the crisis, the fact th…
October 23, 2024 - Fintech
First Look: What does the CFPB 1033 final rule mean for open banking implementations?
APIdays New York was a great event and gave me the opportunity to talk at length about an emerging challenge and topic - API Governance. API evangelist Kin L…
October 22, 2024 - Fintech
Money20/20 Preview: How Open Banking Expands Consumer Power
APIdays New York was a great event and gave me the opportunity to talk at length about an emerging challenge and topic - API Governance. API evangelist Kin L…
October 21, 2024 - Media
Why is API governance a dirty word?
APIdays New York was a great event and gave me the opportunity to talk at length about an emerging challenge and topic - API Governance. API evangelist Kin L…
April 30, 2024 Securing the Future: Navigating API Security in a Connected World
This week, Spoutible acknowledged and remediated a variety of API vulnerabilities. They should be commended for their fast resolution, but the incident highl…
February 7, 2024- News
2022-2023 UK Open Banking Report: Overall API performance improved but there is still a ways to go
Once again, we are excited to share the results from our annual 2022-2023 UK Open Banking report, in collaboration with Finextra . The CMA9 are the nine larg…
November 21, 2023 - News
APImetrics Announces Free SLA Monitoring for Third-Party APIs
APImetrics , the product platform for API owners, has launched a new capability to offer free SLA monitoring for popular API suppliers, the company announced…
November 14, 2023 Over $90 Billion Lost Each Year to Poor API Quality
$90 BILLION? Yes. I’ll write that out in long form – $90,000,000,000 – and we think that is a conservative estimate of the amount of effort lost to poor API …
August 29, 2023Release Notes 2023-08-10
Here are the release notes for the 2023-08-10 APImetrics release, they are mostly minor fixes and improvements at this time. Feature Changes: Applied a fix t…
August 12, 2023- News
APImetrics & Wib Partner on API Performance, Compliance and Security
APImetrics and Wib Security today announced a partnership to help enterprises gain continuous visibility, security, and assurance for business-critical servi…
May 23, 2023 - API Updates
NEW! APImetrics Analyst: Empowering Triage Activities Without Compromising Security
APImetrics, the leading API monitoring and governance platform, is proud to announce the addition of a new user role called "Analyst." This new role is desig…
April 27, 2023 Adding a Directory Collection to your account
The APImetrics API Directory gives you access to 1000s of API endpoints and historical data on the critical APIs you rely on - but the data is limited to the…
April 1, 2023What Is A (Twitter) API Worth?
“Your worth is not what you have, but who you are.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo Twitter has done what they have done so many times, even before Elon Musk took over, …
February 7, 2023- IoT
API Security: Let’s start looking at the right things
Recently we had the Optus “ hack .” Now we have the T-Mobile “ hack .” It bears repeating what we’ve been saying all along about API security : We should sto…
February 2, 2023 - News
Why we’re partnering with 42Crunch
Over the last 12-18 months something has become very clear to us – managing the API lifecycle is utterly critical to organizations of all sizes. And in confi…
November 23, 2022 - Opinion
DevOps Trouble in a Post-Twitter World
It is something of a running joke in the monitoring world that a lot of ops work is done via Twitter. And there’s a simple explanation for this: there’s some…
November 8, 2022 - News
APImetrics, tomato pay and Finextra deliver a comprehensive report on UK Open Banking performance over the last year
APImetrics data shows Neobanks outperform CMA9 banks and traditional providers, suggesting technical debt presents a barrier to quality Open Banking solution…
October 26, 2022 - Press Releases
APImetrics announces 400% use growth
Strong momentum follows successful acquisition, seasoned product leadership, and a bold vision for runtime API governance from performance through to securit…
October 21, 2022 - News
Postman and APImetrics: Better Together
Postman simplifies the API development lifecycle to the point that it has become a de facto platform for API-first teams. With over 20 million developers, it…
August 31, 2022 Anatomy of an Outage: Auth0
Auth0 suffered a major outage on June 21. It was part of a wider issue with Cloudflare, their cloud edge provider. Their status page tracks the problems repo…
July 15, 2022Andrew Brown Joins APImetrics as Chief Product Officer
APImetrics has hired Andrew Brown as Chief Product Officer, the company announced today. “With so many changes on the horizon, we are beginning a new phase i…
July 14, 2022- Feature Updates
Performance Comparison Metrics - New look!
The New Homepage with performance comparisons Our goal at APImetrics is to give our customers an easy way to manage performance for their APIs, both the ones…
March 16, 2022 - API Updates
APImetrics Expands With Purchase Of API Science
API Science and APImetrics came into being at roughly similar times to solve parts of the same problem, and I could not be happier to announce that we are ac…
January 25, 2022 - News
API Ratings Advisory Board
A few months ago we announced that we would be formally creating an API Ratings service. While we have now launched a premium version of API.expert, which wi…
October 13, 2021 API Ratings Agency
An Independent API Ratings Agency This week, APImetrics and Tomato Pay have announced our partnership to deliver meaningful production metrics for UK Open Ba…
July 21, 2021- News
APImetrics and tomato pay Partner to Deliver Open Banking Production Metrics
APImetrics partners with tomato pay to Provide Accurate Production Performance Metrics for UK Open Banking APIs Seattle, July 13, 2021 – APImetrics has partn…
July 13, 2021 - News
API Cloud Performance Analysis
APIMETRICS API CLOUD PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS REPORT HIGHLIGHTS SUCCESS OF CLOUD PROVIDERS DESPITE THE PANDEMIC Increased load from significant growth in global …
July 1, 2021 Simple Cross Cloud API Performance Data
Or... how to fine tune your containers Have you ever wanted to know if you've picked the right cloud or location for the job when you're building an Applicat…
June 30, 2021- News
API.expert Low Cost, Hassle Free Performance Monitoring Has Arrived
LOW COST, HASSLE-FREE API PERFORMANCE MONITORING HAS ARRIVED Seattle, June 24 2021 – APImetrics is today launching a premium version of API.expert , an essen…
June 24, 2021 - News
Meristem Inc. to resell APImetrics' service in Japan
The Press Release speaks for itself, and we are delighted to be working with the team at Meristem to resell and support our products in Japan. Over the last …
April 26, 2021 Being Open about (API) Outages
Raise your hand if you think a Status Page for a service you provide or use is automatically updated Auth0 had significant API outages on April 20, 2021 that…
April 21, 2021- News
Auth0 Outage April 20, 2021 - 3 hours
Today's Auth0 Outage APImetrics, along with many other services, utilizes a 3rd party provider, Auth0 , to operate our sign-in and user authentication proces…
April 20, 2021 - Opinion
7 Key Performance API Metrics Every API Dependent Should Know
You may have seen some articles doing the rounds about the 13 key API metrics that teams should track. But going back to the challenge we have with how we de…
March 26, 2021 - Feature Updates
Product Updates: Projects View and New Project Home
Welcome to the spring APImetrics product update! As we prepare for the launch of API.expert Premium, and the huge number of new community and integration fea…
March 26, 2021 - Opinion
Happy Holidays and Here’s to the New Year
In my lifetime, there have been lots of “you’ll always remember where you were” moments. The Challenger disaster and September 11, 2001, are the first two th…
December 25, 2020 - Fintech
Authentication in Open Banking APIs
Open Banking APIs are, by necessity, secure. In the United Kingdom, an entity wishing to make a call to a UK financial service provider must be a trusted TPP…
November 17, 2020 API Rant: You Call THAT Authentication?
This is a slight departure from my usual rants, but only because authentication has occupied too much of my damn time this week. Many years ago, we wrote a W…
November 16, 2020API Rants - Trust but verify
There is an idiom in English, “you don’t let the foxes guard the hen house.” I’m not sure how well it translates, but the meaning is simple – don't have peop…
September 15, 2020API Rant: Begging the question...
API Rant... For this week's API rant, a little story from history. When I was a kid, back when telephones were a thing in the hallway, my friends would phone…
September 2, 2020- Feature Updates
APImetrics Feature Update: New Statistics Views
APImetrics Feature Update: New Statistics Views In our rolling series of feature updates we have reached a new milestone with our new stats pages. The change…
August 27, 2020 API Rant: TTFB - This is not the metric you are looking for
TTFB – This Isn’t The Metric You’re Looking For TTFB (Time to First Byte) is a metric used by Open Banking UK, and was originally defined by the Open Banking…
August 20, 2020- News
OpenAPI Welcomes New Member APImetrics
Welcome to OpenAPI! APImetrics provides an enterprise-focused API monitoring solution that interfaces with REST and SOAP API protocols. Monitoring is support…
August 18, 2020 API Rant: Test In Prod or Give Up
API Rants: Test in Prod or give up. This is a public service rant. For the love of Mike/whatever being is responsible for your monitoring, please monitor you…
August 4, 2020API Ratings: 13 July - 20 July 2020
API.expert API Ratings We are already into the middle of July and the nights are starting to draw in. That time of the week has again arrived for us to talk …
July 23, 2020API Rants: We Need To Talk...
Hi Monitoring Industry. We need to talk.... It’s not me- it's you. I first wrote a riff on this a couple of years ago, but chickened out of posting it. “Too …
July 21, 2020- Opinion
Overlooked API Monitoring Problems
Overlooked API monitoring problems To understand how API monitoring problems get overlooked, there's an old story that goes something like this: You come acr…
July 14, 2020 Interview with our CEO
Our CEO, David O'Neill did an interview with David Berlind of ProgrammeableWeb on our new service API.expert - feel free to check it out, either at YouTube o…
January 27, 2020- API Updates
Say Hello to API Ratings from API.expert
One of the recurring themes we hear when speaking to clients is that they just want the data. They don't want the challenge of setting up and configuring and…
January 7, 2020 - News
APImetrics Announces New Monitoring Product for Postman APIs
Seattle – APImetrics has launched a new monitoring service for Postman users, the company announced yesterday. “We are very excited to launch this product, w…
October 15, 2019 - Feature Updates
New Postman Integration - Run Collections via APImetrics
Here at APImetrics we are really excited to announce our new type of integration for Postman users. We understand that importing collections and keeping them…
August 9, 2019 - Fintech
API Performance Analysis: Hitting the Mainstream
Here at APImetrics, we've been at the cutting edge of API performance analysis for over four years now. So we tend to forget how far things have come in just…
May 1, 2019 - Feature Updates
New Importer - Better Postman, Github and OpenAPI Sync
An exciting day today! We have gone live with our new importer, this has been built in conjunction with our partners at APImatic , to provide a more effectiv…
March 28, 2019 - Enterprise IT
Healthcare API Economy: Long Overdue
This week, Don Rucker MD, the National Coordinator for Health IT, proposed a healthcare API economy . This is something that's long overdue, especiall…
February 16, 2019 - Fintech
APIs and the Cloud: An Impact Study
In their recent white paper, ThousandEyes concludes that all the clouds offer good choices from the perspective of network performance with solid backbones f…
November 15, 2018 - Opinion
One API Monitoring Tool To Rule Them All
When I've thought about monitoring tool (s), especially in the context of API monitoring tools recently, I've been reminded of this famous phrase from The Lo…
November 5, 2018 - Enterprise IT
Free Puppy!!! (AKA Free Software Is Rarely Free)
We do that! It really doesn’t matter what ‘that’ is. It could be API monitoring, it could be networking monitoring, it could be security services. It could b…
October 30, 2018 - Feature Updates
Monthly Fintech API Performance Dashboard
As we get closer to launching some data-only products focused on our non-technical users, we wanted to make some data available that's easy to read and under…
August 29, 2018 - Fintech
API Compliance Monitoring - Can you afford not to?
/images/blog/wp/2018/08/Why-API-Compliance-Monitoring-APImetrics-2018.mp4 In the rapidly expanding fields of Open Banking, where there are…
August 9, 2018 - Cloud
Why API Monitoring?
Why API monitoring Licensed under CC license One of the questions we get asked all the time is the deceptively simple: Why API monitoring? After all, compani…
August 8, 2018 - Fintech
Open Banking CMA9 API Performance Data CMA9 - July 2018
We first shared this on LinkedIn a few days ago, but it's worth repeating here as this data is, we believe, fundamental to the success of CMA9 Open Banking A…
August 6, 2018 - API Updates
CMA9 Open Banking public APIs: Latest News
The story of our previous monthly surveys of the UK CMA9 Open Banking public APIs has been that roughly 30% of the APIs have fallen below an acceptable score…
July 25, 2018 New Agent Locations Available
Quick housekeeping announcement, we've just expanded our agent network again. Adding 10 more locations, mostly from Google - covering multiple European locat…
June 21, 2018- News
APImetrics DevOps Product of the Year
Dr Paul Cray of APImetrics Accepts the Award London, June 12 – APImetrics, a real-time API and cloud service monitoring and analytics company, was named DevO…
June 14, 2018 - News
"Our Experience So Far" – FI.SPAN Talks APImetrics
FI.SPAN is a SOC compliant, cloud-native API orchestration platform that turns APIs into tangible & impactful service experiences for their clients. FI.SPAN …
June 6, 2018 - News
Why we monitor, and why you should to... CMA9 Open Banking Edition
Fresh from congratulating a UK CMA9 bank on keeping their V1 and V2 APIs going for a decent period beyond the February switchover, we had a deeper look to se…
May 17, 2018 - News
APIContext In Japan - May 22-25
APIContext is excited to be part of the Washington State Trade Mission to Japan, the trip will be focusing on AI, and we're looking to make connections with …
May 14, 2018 - Feature Updates
New Features - Print to PDF for reports - Email Subscription controls
Email Controls You can now set your email preferences from the alerting menu, this will automatically subscribe or unsubscribe you from the various email rep…
May 8, 2018 - Fintech
CMA9 OBIE UK Report, April. And a third of APIs still under perform.
[caption id="attachment_4857" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Competition and Markets Authority[/caption] In March, we published a report on the UK's…
May 4, 2018 - Opinion
API Monitoring: There's No Taking The 5th
Most of the world is probably aware of the 5th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Most countries have their own version: No person … shall b…
May 2, 2018 - Opinion
API Standards: Who Watches the Watchmen?
I am fond of the saying, Who watches the watchers? When applied to the API sector, it addresses a very real problem: How do you manage standards and adherenc…
April 16, 2018 Equifax and AWS: How One Minor Thing Can Pull Down Performance
It's always fascinating to us how your choice of Cloud Host can impact your performance. For example, we noticed some issues with the Equifax API we monitor.…
April 16, 2018- Feature Updates
Daily and Weekly Status Mails
We've now added one of the features that everybody has been asking for, daily and weekly alert status mails. The emails will initially cover the basics - the…
April 7, 2018 - Fintech
PSD2, Open Banking and North America: Part II of II
This is part II of a two-part series. To jump back, read this first . The paradigm within PSD2 and open banking generally is that anyone can connect to anyon…
April 6, 2018 - Fintech
PSD2, Open Banking and North America: Part I of II
It is universally accepted that Europe is far ahead of North America in the development of open banking. What activity there is mainly focuses on aggregation…
April 5, 2018 - Fintech
CMA9: 35% of Banking APIs Miss Acceptable Performance Targets
During the month of March, APIContext monitored the quality of 102 CMA9 APIs, approximately 25 of these were V1 APIs, which were all deprecated during the mo…
April 2, 2018 - Enterprise IT
Active + Passive Monitoring = Rapid Problem Resolution
Let’s take a real example from a customer. One of their users logged a service complaint, and the internal SRE (Service Reliability Engineering) team checked…
March 30, 2018 - Cloud
SLAs in a Cloud World: Getting What You Pay For
When it comes to your SLA, no service has 100% uptime. Things need to be maintained. It takes time to update something. There will be periods where something…
March 30, 2018 - Opinion
200 OK? Check Again.
Something we've talked a LOT about is when an API returns a HTTP 200 ok code, but the API returns an error. This can be a challenge for a gateway's passive m…
March 22, 2018 - Fintech
What Do Telecoms And Banks Have In Common? APIs.
What do telecoms and banks have in common when it comes to APIs? Well, in the early days of the API revolution – as long as 3 or 4 years ago! – there was a r…
March 21, 2018 - Cloud
Active Monitoring and API Documentation (Or, "Why Doesn't My Call Work?")
One of the issues we frequently see is clients having issues with moving to active external monitoring from internal testing or testing through their API doc…
March 20, 2018 Database Issues currently slowing reports
We're currently experiencing performance issues with the database which may be impacting some users experience, especially with reports and graphs. We curren…
February 14, 2018Major Feature Changes
Introducing Schedules Moving forward, we are replacing our system of deploying API calls with schedules. Here's how it works. Previously, you'd need to pick …
February 8, 2018Issues in some public Insight CASC scores January 2018
A quick note, in some of the latest Insights reports we have a number of APIs showing a CASC Score of 0. Unfortunately, a number of APIs were added exactly a…
February 2, 2018- Feature Updates
Rankings for Business Critical APIs
Every day, APImetrics run hundreds of thousands of API calls against some of the leading APIs in use. They're the APIs you may depend on, but you don't have …
December 1, 2017 - Fintech
Zen and the Art of API Monitoring
This week I spoke at the APIDays Banking Event in Berlin. The topic of my talk was a riff on the title of Robert Persig's 1974 classic, Zen and the Art of Mo…
November 9, 2017 - Fintech
Berlin 2017 - Speaking at APIDays
I'll be speaking tomorrow at the APIDays Banking Event in Berlin on Zen and the Art of API Monitoring - I'll aim to post the talk but the gist is simple - in…
November 6, 2017 - Case Studies
APIs Have Only Been Getting Faster: A Report from APIContext
Each day, APIContext software agents in more than 60 locations around the world regularly exercise a wide variety of API endpoints. APImetrics and its custom…
October 8, 2017 - API Updates
API Monitoring and Reporting: Steady Improvement in APIs
Being an API monitoring and reporting service, we often talk about the bad stuff – outages, performance problems, and just plain weird results. But we also l…
October 3, 2017 - Enterprise IT
Mini Case Study - When Did it Break?
Basepair is a next generation DNA sequencing (NGS) data analytics SaaS trusted by scientists at Harvard Medical School, Rutgers, Boston Children's Hospital, …
September 28, 2017 Why Measure Your API?
Here's a short tale of 2 API calls. They're both from large, well-known American companies. The API calls are doing exactly the same thing. We won't say what…
September 27, 2017Trust But Verify...
Cloud API Hosting Comparisons One of the ways people use APIContext is to validate what their hosting and hosting optimization services are actually doing ve…
September 25, 2017- Fintech
PSD1 (Payment Service Directive): Show Me The Money
The European Single Market came into being in the early 1990s, but was in many ways more of an aspiration than a process. It wasn't just that there were a lo…
September 11, 2017 - Fintech
PSD2, APIs and Performance, and Quality Monitoring
PSD2 (Payment Services Directive 2) is about to revolutionize the provision of payment and banking services within the European Single Market. All banks will…
September 11, 2017 Location Latency Mapping
We've been trying to work out the best way of visualizing latency data by location and we're pleased to announce our first version. We're taking the data for…
July 31, 2017- Feature Updates
New Resource: Global HTTP bin network
Measuring performance from different regions and different clouds is core to what we do and providing developers, managers and product owners with the tools …
July 31, 2017 - Feature Updates
Feature Updates
Two changes this week. Reporting (All Locations) You can now generate reports which show the combined results from all locations.
June 7, 2017 API Call Locations Added! More India, More USA, More Europe, More Australasia
Great news! APIContext has just added 20 new API call locations to our options for running API calls. This includes multiple options for India, a second Kore…
May 11, 2017Anatomy of a Dying API
We know from history that API owners can be poor at communicating changes in their APIs. Twitter, for example, is known for burying the lede concerning API c…
May 1, 2017Are You Monitoring Your API Security?
Marcelo Graciolli licensed under CC BY 2.0 There are many ways to monitor API security on the web. Some APIs might have no security – you can make a simple H…
April 27, 2017- News
Check in with our April Update
Lots of new content and news in our April update. Check it out here , and if you're interested, why not sign up for our newsletter?
April 26, 2017 - Automotive
APIContext Three-Year Study: More Than Half Of Existing APIs Have Problems That Could Affect Customers [INFOGRAPHIC]
An APIContext study of 100 million samples shows that more than half the APIs in use have serious issues that could compromise companies and consumers, the c…
April 19, 2017 - API Updates
APIContext - API Metrics 2016 By The Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC]
After conducting the largest analysis of API performance ever undertaken, we've reached the same conclusion as we did when we first started with APIContext. …
April 19, 2017 Updates for March 17 2017
A quick programming note for everybody, and the obligatory Happy St Patrick's Day, we've released some new features this week that will improve the stats fun…
March 17, 2017- Feature Updates
APIContext gets a fresh new look for 2017
Hot on the heels of our Improved Call Data Visualizations and Reporting, the APIContext user interface now has a fresh new look for 2017. Our improved interf…
February 16, 2017 - Feature Updates
Improved Call Data Visualizations and Reporting
Welcome to 2017 and with it, the first of a bunch of new reporting features. They're designed to tell you more about what's actually impacting your API and S…
January 24, 2017 - White Papers
Defining a Quality Standard for SaaS and Cloud Services
The world is increasingly reliant on APIs to drive mobile apps, services and corporate operations. But how do you measure the quality of the APIs you use or …
November 3, 2016 - Utilities
Case Study: First Utility
First Utility is a leading energy supplier in the United Kingdom. They were having issues with the quality of the APIs that were powering their mobile apps. …
September 27, 2016 - News
70% of all API problems have no apparent root cause
[caption id="attachment_2407" align="alignleft" width="300"] 70% of all API problems have no easy way to identify root cause[/caption] In a survey of 20 of t…
September 9, 2016 Issue Affecting Remote Locations over 4th July Weekend
It's come to our attention that we had a significant issue affecting data collection from our remote agents over the 4th of July weekend. We've traced the pr…
July 6, 2016Two Percent
We're in the process of rolling out some new analytics tools and we've been looking at some headline numbers. The first headline number is 83,000,000 - that'…
June 16, 2016What is your API doing at 10pm?
An article including a number of things we've discovered over the last year and very handy for anybody who is starting to try and figure out what a Service L…
May 13, 2016- API Updates
False Clusters and New DNS Handling
As one of our feature enhancements we've improved the way our agents work, we are now consistently capturing key data on the actual API performance including…
May 4, 2016 Going Back In Time
We frequently check general performance data to look for 'odd' responses and we found an interesting one today which involved an API call on a test server wh…
May 4, 2016- Case Studies
Case Study: New Zealand Ministry of Business
Open government initiatives and a move to use SaaS and Cloud services is changing how governments use and access APIs. In New Zealand, the Ministry of Busine…
March 30, 2016 Outages - were you ready?
Twitter had an extremely rare outage today, as our recent social media report showed, they're one of the most reliable services we measure. But they do have …
January 19, 2016Quick Update - Happy New Year
We'll have more details out shortly but there's a lot of features and changes coming in the next few days, once we're through the final testing. These includ…
January 9, 2016APIContext Second API Performance Report - Social Networks
For our second API Health Report we decided to look at Social Networking APIs, specifically Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr - like with our first report we were…
November 3, 2015Come and meet us at API Strategy and Practice
We're going to be attending and talking at the API Strategy and Practice conference in Chicago this week, so feel free to get in touch and come and see us. T…
September 23, 2014- News
Bit of Press About APIContext
Geekwire has a piece up about us in their Startup Spotlight piece this week. Please check it out. And, if you haven't signed up for an account yet, please do…
June 2, 2014 FIVE MILLION
Big milestone! We have now passed more than 5,000,000 tests run by our product since we started it running last year. That's more than 110GB of test data on …
June 2, 2014New Group Level Alerts + PagerDuty
New for group level accounts is the ability to set different email addresses to be alerted when certain conditions are met for any of the tests in your organ…
May 21, 2014- Feature Updates
Automated API Sample Code calls
We're really delighted to be able to announce this new feature! We've added the ability to see reference code for API calls you test using APIContext, just b…
May 7, 2014 Regional API Performance Testing - New Feature
This is one we've been asked for a lot, and it's available now for Pro and higher level accounts. We've enabled a variety of regional test centers for runnin…
May 7, 2014- News
APIContext Announces New Partnership with Radius Inc
APIContext Announces New Partnership with Radius Inc. We at APIContext are proud to announce our new partnership with Radius Inc., a Kirkland-based next-gene…
April 10, 2014 - White Papers
OAuth - The Standard That Isn't
This White Paper is published jointly from APIContext and OAuth.io - a copy can be downloaded from here . Please feel free to comment or contact us to ask qu…
April 10, 2014 - Feature Updates
New Reporting Format... Now with errors
For our signed in users, and if you haven't signed up for a free account, you really should - you get much better access to the data, we've had a slight chan…
April 3, 2014 - Feature Updates
New features.... March 2014
It's been a little while since we updated you, but we've been busy. There's a lot of new features shipping next month and I wanted to let you know about some…
March 27, 2014 New Statistical Models and Alerts
Newly added features today, we're now providing users with statistical tools for understand the performance of their APIs better. This includes the following…
December 18, 2013November News and Updates
It's been a busy month here, so here's a quick round up of the news and new features we've got coming. News We went out with our Press Release that more than…
November 27, 2013Bing, Bing Maps, MS Live auth and Profile APIs all down
Not sure what's happening but Microsoft are having some serious DNS issues on their API calls for Bing, Bing Maps and Live services at the moment. They're no…
November 21, 2013Piece in Programmable Web about APIContext
Some nice coverage of our product in Programmable Web on the challenges of maintaining quality in APIs.
November 21, 2013Creating Fast Comparison Reports
Suppose you're trying to decide between different location search providers for your mobile app or service. You're certainly going to look at price. But you …
November 15, 2013As easy as...
We like to stress that creating tests, even ones with authentication is extremely simple with APIContext. Between our Community of tests and developer setups…
November 15, 2013So what does happen at Bing every day?
We'd REALLY like to know what happens at Bing every day at about 21:00UTC - the performance spike is interesting. It buries the real story about the performa…
November 14, 2013- News
Press Release - APImetrics Launches the First Service That Monitors Actual Performance
APICONTEXT LAUNCHES THE FIRST SERVICE THAT MONITORS ACTUAL API PERFORMANCE Results show more than half of these key building blocks of the web fail every wee…
November 13, 2013 API Support the use of errors - Yahoo BOSS
One of the things we have noticed as we increase our test coverage, is that in addition to the poor quality of the documentation, there a lot of randomness i…
November 12, 2013Community Features - Sharing Tests and Keys
We've been working hard on making it very easy not just to test APIs, but also to share your tests and tokens too. We've now implemented the first set of fea…
November 12, 2013Google App Engine Problems - 11/06/13 - 15:30PST
Google App Engine is having a bad day with problems around URL access. This is affecting all tests at the moment and causing fail cases. We'll get back to yo…
November 6, 2013- News
Test Frequency - Deciding on your test frequency
One of the things that we are clear about is APIContext is not a load nor stress testing platform. We're focused on providing a close indication of the likel…
November 1, 2013 - Feature Updates
Authentication Challenges - Salesforce
One of the key features of APIContext is our ability to handle oAuth tokens for tests and calls requiring authentication. As we've rolled out our beta progra…
October 30, 2013 - Feature Updates
Improved Test Timing Features
One of the challenges reported to us during the beta testing phase has been problems with running tests too close together. To counter this we've now gone li…
October 29, 2013 Weekly API Performance Report Wk Ending 10-25-2013
The two big stories of the week are the Facebook Share outage and the Google auth outage. While both were short lived - Facebook lasted about 3 hours and Goo…
October 28, 2013Another catch - Google outage...
Google's log in APIs started through some errors today and were down for a test cycle so about 15-30 minutes of HTTP 502 errors. Remember to sign up for APIC…
October 24, 2013- News
Launching at Geekwire Start Up Day
Just a note to say that we'll be launching out of beta on Friday October 25th at the Geekwire Startup Day here in Seattle at the Showbox, SoDo. If you can ma…
October 24, 2013 Facebook Outage
It's been covered in the press but we wanted to mention that we picked up the Facebook outage yesterday. Starting at 12:00UTC on 10/21 and lasting until 14:3…
October 21, 2013New Reporting System
A new reporting system for easy generation of status updates, all generated from a single bit of code. <script…
October 21, 2013- Feature Updates
External Reporting API
By popular demand we've enabled an API to allow you to extract data from your reports and embed it in your own web properties as a report or dashboard. This …
October 15, 2013 - Feature Updates
New Features Week Ending 4/10
The end of another week and some new features have come online. Firstly, we've added Tags. This will make it easier to identify tests for reports and if you'…
October 5, 2013 - News
Say hello to our new logo
As we move closer to coming out of Beta we're getting our corporate ID set up, so here's our new logo.
October 5, 2013 - News
New Features - here now
We're working to coming out of Beta but we're still letting people sign up for the Beta program - just fill in the form from the dashboard page here. We're r…
September 27, 2013 - News
Update - API Wizard
So we've just gone live with V1 of our API Wizard in the Beta trial. This is very much the Beta version, there are some rough edges in there but we get notif…
August 22, 2013 Housekeeping: Beta Release - LinkedIn
We're now up and working again with the LinkedIn Share API but we would still like anybody from LinkedIn to contact us.
August 14, 2013Housekeeping: Bug Reporting for Beta Users
Just a housekeeping note for Beta users. We're experiencing a problem with the latency graphs at the moment that's preventing the data from being displayed c…
August 13, 2013- News
Housekeeping August 9 2013
The more astute reader will notice we're showing low pass rates on LinkedIn , but also no errors. The API is currently reporting a warning to us. We had reso…
August 9, 2013 - API Updates
Instagram Glitches 8/8 and 8/9
Instagram has been having a bad end to the week with several failures pulling their pass average down to 99%... Additionally, they've been slow, taking avera…
August 9, 2013 Monthly API Performance July 2013
Total Tests conducted in July: 53,485 (oAuth), 10,057 (Shares) and 43,543 (User Profile Tests) against 16 different services. House keeping issue: We encount…
August 8, 2013API Performance June 2013
Total Tests conducted in June: 48641 (oAuth), 6817 (Shares) and 37,692 (User Profile Tests) against 16 different services. oAuth Testing: Total failure rate …
July 3, 2013