Mar 30, 2018
SLAs in a Cloud World: Getting What You Pay For
No cloud service offers 100% uptime. Here's what that reality means for your SLA and how to plan for inevitable downtime.
Read more…David O'Neill
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Mar 22, 2018
200 OK? Check Again.
APIs that return HTTP 200 while actually reporting an error can slip past a gateway's passive monitoring undetected.
Read more…David O'Neill
Mar 21, 2018
What Do Telecoms And Banks Have In Common? APIs.
Telecoms and banks share a similar API journey, both racing to open up backend systems years before it became a wider trend.
Read more…David O'Neill
Mar 20, 2018
Active Monitoring and API Documentation (Or, "Why Doesn't My Call Work?")
Moving from internal API testing tools like Postman or Apiary to active external monitoring often reveals hidden issues.
Read more…David O'Neill
Mar 19, 2018
API Gateway and APImetrics: How We Integrate with Your Existing Systems
An overview of API gateways: what they do, why they matter, and how they fit into your broader API monitoring strategy.
Read more…Paul Cray
Mar 14, 2018
Active Monitoring: Never Hesitate to Go Active
Active monitoring works like sonar, pinging your APIs to detect problems before they can affect your users, a lesson from naval history.
Read more…Paul Cray
Mar 6, 2018
PSD2 Active API Performance Monitoring: You Can't Do That From Here
You have to manage your APIs. Relying purely on passive monitoring of API gateways leaves major performance gaps unaddressed.
Read more…Paul Cray
Mar 2, 2018
Open Banking APIs: Working Together To Make It Work
A letter from the European Commission's Director-General for Financial Stability sheds new light on the direction of Open Banking.
Read more…Paul Cray
Feb 27, 2018
Open Banking APIs Need PSD2 Monitoring – Now
Finextra argues that APIs, PSD2, and DLT are banking's hottest technologies, but which one will actually reshape core systems?
Read more…Paul Cray
Feb 14, 2018
Database Issues currently slowing reports
We experienced a temporary database performance issue affecting some users' reports and graphs, resolved the same evening.
Read more…David O'Neill
Feb 12, 2018
Monitoring the Untestable - A White Paper from APIContext
Our new white paper, Monitoring the Untestable, tackles the PSD2 and open banking catch-22 of monitoring production APIs.
Read more…Paul Cray
Feb 8, 2018
Major Feature Changes
Introducing Schedules, our new way to deploy API calls that replaces the old process of manually picking locations and clouds.
Read more…David O'Neill
Feb 2, 2018
Issues in some public Insight CASC scores January 2018
Some Insights reports briefly showed a CASC Score of 0 for newly added APIs due to a timing issue with monthly totals.
Read more…David O'Neill
Jan 30, 2018
API Update Failure: Or, Beware Of The Leopard
Updating an API is routine, but it can trigger failures if not handled carefully. Here's what commonly goes wrong and why.
Read more…Paul Cray
Jan 16, 2018
The (Open Banking) Revolution Will Be Blogged.
BBC News covered the launch of PSD2 and Open Banking, bringing the UK's regulatory shift to a mainstream global audience.
Read more…Paul Cray
Jan 12, 2018
PSD2 Eve: Tomorrow It Goes Live. Are You Ready?
PSD2 officially went live across the European Single Market on January 13, 2018. Here's what to expect starting Monday.
Read more…Paul Cray
Jan 3, 2018
The IRS and APIs: Can Your Tax Returns Be Accessed?
TechCrunch explores whether Congress could mandate the IRS to expose a public API, building on its existing internal ones.
Read more…Paul Cray
Dec 29, 2017
Hot Fuzz: The Fuzzing Form of Negative Testing
Fuzz testing may seem new, but the concept actually dates back to the days of punched cards, long before it became a buzzword.
Read more…Paul Cray
Dec 19, 2017
Testing! Testing! Testing! APIContext for Developers and Testers
ProgrammableWeb's Justin Rohrman explores API testing in a series we highlight, alongside how APIContext supports developers and testers.
Read more…Paul Cray
Dec 6, 2017
Going SLO: Service Level Agreements and Service Level Objectives
APIContext monitors API performance and quality, helping you verify whether an API actually meets its service level agreement.
Read more…Paul Cray
Dec 1, 2017
Rankings for Business Critical APIs
APImetrics runs hundreds of thousands of daily API calls to rank the leading APIs businesses depend on but rarely have clear SLAs for.
Read more…David O'Neill
Nov 9, 2017
Zen and the Art of API Monitoring
A talk from APIDays Banking Berlin riffs on Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance to explain the mindset behind good API monitoring.
Read more…David O'Neill
Nov 6, 2017
Berlin 2017 - Speaking at APIDays
A preview of an APIDays Banking Berlin talk, Zen and the Art of API Monitoring, inspired by the classic motorcycle maintenance book.
Read more…David O'Neill
Nov 3, 2017
APIStrat: The API Strategy & Practice Conference 2017 Review
A recap of APIstrat in Portland, covering the conference highlights, sessions, and takeaways from the API community event.
Read more…Paul Cray