Blog & News
Feb 16, 2019
This week, Don Rucker MD, the National Coordinator for Health IT, proposed a healthcare API economy . This is something that's long overdue, especially in the USA, and shadows the changes that…
Feb 6, 2019
Join our CEO, David O'Neill, for a webinar hosted by Ping Identity on the challenges of scaling and securing API solutions. Date/Time: February 27th @ 11AM MT Title: Innovators Panel Discussion:…
Nov 15, 2018
In their recent white paper, ThousandEyes concludes that all the clouds offer good choices from the perspective of network performance with solid backbones for data transfer. But that’s only part of…
Nov 12, 2018
When it comes to monitoring APIs, getting a 2xx back is not enough. You have to check that the returned payload is what is actually expected. So, if the expected payload contains 14 language options,…
Nov 5, 2018
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 Lord of the Rings saga: One Ring to rule…
Oct 30, 2018
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 be one of a dozen things. But the sales…
Oct 29, 2018
Merriam-Webster has created a "Time Traveler" tool to let people see what words entered the language in the year of their birth. It's interesting to discover how old (and how new!) some words are.…
Oct 17, 2018
I remember when Google+ was a thing. And then when it was a thing again. Both those periods were a long time ago. But it was still a shock to see that Google+ is soon to be shuttered for good – and…
Oct 17, 2018
The APImetrics Insights CASC (Cloud API Service Consistency) score lets you know the performance and quality of an API at a glance. It also lets you instantly compare any API with any other API. Not…
Oct 8, 2018
There's a fascinating article over at Quartz about the battle in the online banking world to be the Amazon (or Facebook or Netfix) of money. Despite the title, the article's not really got much to…
Aug 29, 2018
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 understand. So, the first 5 Fintech API…
Aug 9, 2018
/images/blog/wp/2018/08/Why-API-Compliance-Monitoring-APImetrics-2018.mp4 In the rapidly expanding fields of Open Banking, where there are…
Aug 8, 2018
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, companies and DevOps groups use LOTS of different…
Aug 6, 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 API initiatives and the banks, ASPs and…
Jul 25, 2018
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 of 800 or more. While things have…
Jul 6, 2018
Recently, there has been a spate of interesting articles on the state of open banking in the UK. And "state" appears to be the operative word. As an openbanking.space article opines, Anyone with a…
Jun 21, 2018
Quick housekeeping announcement, we've just expanded our agent network again. Adding 10 more locations, mostly from Google - covering multiple European locations and for the first time adding in…
Jun 19, 2018
As I blogged a few weeks ago, one of the hottest trends right now in business and government is microprocurement . Always at the very front of any trend, we have just found out that APImetrics has…
Jun 15, 2018
Following on from our thoughts on SLOs and KPIs , we teased that we had some more data on CMA9 APIs. And here it is! The approach we use is simple. We look at past performance and provide…
Jun 14, 2018
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 DevOps Product of the Year during the TechXLR8…
Jun 14, 2018
The SAP blog has a post on their new SAP Cloud Platform Open Connectors. Now, this idea is not new. In fact, I might even go as far as to suggest that great minds think alike; some of our readers…
Jun 13, 2018
I just want to reiterate something that I wrote a blog post about last April. When it comes to monitoring your APIs, it really isn't a good idea to rely on cURL scripts. Let's say you just want a…
Jun 6, 2018
FI.SPAN is a SOC compliant, cloud-native API orchestration platform that turns APIs into tangible & impactful service experiences for their clients. FI.SPAN believes that the smartest and most adaptable banks will thrive in this world...
Jun 5, 2018
You know the future has arrived when you see an advert for it for it on an obscure Sky satellite channel. In this case, what is kicking off is the availability of apps from Account Information…
