Blog & News
Nov 14, 2013
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 performance of the 3 major search engines. Google,…
Nov 13, 2013
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 week SEATTLE—November 12,…
Nov 12, 2013
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 in the errors we get sent back. Today's…
Nov 12, 2013
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 features for community use. The first set of…
Nov 6, 2013
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 you when all is well.
Nov 1, 2013
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 likely quality of the developer experience on…
Oct 30, 2013
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 program we've found that there's more variation…
Oct 29, 2013
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 live with some enhancements to the test…
Oct 28, 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 Google 45 minutes... the number of people…
Oct 24, 2013
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 APIContext if you want your own alerts on API…
Oct 24, 2013
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 make it, please come by and say hello and…
Oct 21, 2013
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 14:30UTC Sharing was pretty much impossible to…
Oct 21, 2013
A new reporting system for easy generation of status updates, all generated from a single bit of code. <script…
Oct 15, 2013
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 is going to be a premium feature, but for…
Oct 5, 2013
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've got a lot of different APIs. Secondly,…
Oct 5, 2013
As we move closer to coming out of Beta we're getting our corporate ID set up, so here's our new logo.
Sep 27, 2013
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 really excited with the new features that…
Aug 22, 2013
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 notified if you find a bug, so please go ahead…
Aug 14, 2013
We're now up and working again with the LinkedIn Share API but we would still like anybody from LinkedIn to contact us.
Aug 13, 2013
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 correctly. We're moving to a new graphing…
Aug 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 resolved one issue with an expired use token -…
Aug 9, 2013
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 average latency up to 1 second. Sign up for a…
Aug 8, 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 encountered some token refreshing issues with the…
Jul 3, 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 of 0.4% of all services tested, with just…
