Feb 9, 2015
API Monitoring Lessons from Facebook Going Down
Facebook's hour-long outage in January 2015 offers key lessons in API monitoring and service reliability.
Read more…Paul Cray
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Sep 23, 2014
Come and meet us at API Strategy and Practice
APIContext will attend and present at the API Strategy and Practice conference in Chicago this week.
Read more…David O'Neill
Jun 2, 2014
Bit of Press About APIContext
Geekwire features APIContext in its Startup Spotlight series, highlighting the company's free signup and API tools.
Read more…David O'Neill
Jun 2, 2014
FIVE MILLION
APIContext has now run more than 5 million tests, generating over 110GB of API test data stored in its results.
Read more…David O'Neill
May 21, 2014
New Group Level Alerts + PagerDuty
Group-level accounts can now set custom alert email addresses for specific test conditions across the organization.
Read more…David O'Neill
May 7, 2014
Automated API Sample Code calls
APIContext now shows reference sample code for tested API calls with a single click, free for all users.
Read more…David O'Neill
May 7, 2014
Regional API Performance Testing - New Feature
Pro and higher-level accounts can now run ongoing API tests from a variety of regional test centers worldwide.
Read more…David O'Neill
Apr 10, 2014
APIContext Announces New Partnership with Radius Inc
APIContext announces a new partnership with Radius Inc., a Kirkland-based technology consulting company.
Read more…David O'Neill
Apr 10, 2014
OAuth - The Standard That Isn't
APIContext and OAuth.io jointly publish a white paper examining shortcomings of the OAuth standard.
Read more…David O'Neill
Apr 3, 2014
New Reporting Format... Now with errors
APIContext updates its database and reporting format, giving signed-in users better access to error data.
Read more…David O'Neill
Mar 27, 2014
New features.... March 2014
APIContext previews the new features shipping next month, including expanded handling capabilities for API tests.
Read more…David O'Neill
Dec 18, 2013
New Statistical Models and Alerts
APIContext adds statistical tools to help users better understand their API performance, including raw-result graphs.
Read more…David O'Neill
Nov 27, 2013
November News and Updates
A roundup of APIContext news and new features from November, including a press release on API service reliability.
Read more…David O'Neill
Nov 21, 2013
Bing, Bing Maps, MS Live auth and Profile APIs all down
Microsoft is experiencing DNS issues affecting Bing, Bing Maps, and Live service API calls.
Read more…David O'Neill
Nov 21, 2013
Piece in Programmable Web about APIContext
Some nice coverage of our product in Programmable Web on the challenges of maintaining quality in APIs.
Read more…David O'Neill
Nov 15, 2013
Creating Fast Comparison Reports
How to quickly compare location search providers on price, speed, and reliability using APIContext reports.
Read more…David O'Neill
Nov 15, 2013
As easy as...
Creating API tests, even ones with authentication, is quick and simple with APIContext's community tests and setups.
Read more…David O'Neill
Nov 14, 2013
So what does happen at Bing every day?
APIContext investigates a mysterious daily performance spike at Bing around 21:00 UTC and what it means for search reliability.
Read more…David O'Neill
Nov 13, 2013
Press Release - APImetrics Launches the First Service That Monitors Actual Performance
APIContext launches the first service to monitor real API performance, revealing over half of key web services fail weekly.
Read more…David O'Neill
Nov 12, 2013
API Support the use of errors - Yahoo BOSS
APIContext looks at inconsistent error responses from APIs like Yahoo BOSS as test coverage expands.
Read more…David O'Neill
Nov 12, 2013
Community Features - Sharing Tests and Keys
APIContext rolls out community features that make it easy to share your API tests and tokens with others.
Read more…David O'Neill
Nov 6, 2013
Google App Engine Problems - 11/06/13 - 15:30PST
Google App Engine is experiencing URL access issues, causing test failures across the board.
Read more…David O'Neill
Nov 1, 2013
Test Frequency - Deciding on your test frequency
APIContext explains why it's not a load or stress testing platform, focusing instead on real developer experience.
Read more…David O'Neill
Oct 30, 2013
Authentication Challenges - Salesforce
APIContext discusses the growing variety of OAuth token challenges it handles for authenticated API tests.
Read more…David O'Neill