Nov 15, 2013
As easy as...
Creating API tests, even ones with authentication, is quick and simple with APIContext's community tests and setups.
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Blog & News
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Oct 30, 2013
Authentication Challenges - Salesforce
APIContext discusses the growing variety of OAuth token challenges it handles for authenticated API tests.
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Oct 29, 2013
Improved Test Timing Features
APIContext rolls out enhancements to fix issues with running tests too close together during beta testing.
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Oct 28, 2013
Weekly API Performance Report Wk Ending 10-25-2013
This week's top stories: the Facebook Share outage and Google's 45-minute auth outage, both covered in APIContext's report.
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Oct 24, 2013
Another catch - Google outage...
Google's login APIs returned HTTP 502 errors for about 15-30 minutes; sign up for APIContext to get your own API alerts.
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Oct 24, 2013
Launching at Geekwire Start Up Day
APIContext launches out of beta on October 25th at Geekwire Startup Day in Seattle.
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Oct 21, 2013
Facebook Outage
APIContext detected Facebook's outage on October 21st, which disrupted Sharing for about 2.5 hours.
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Oct 21, 2013
New Reporting System
A new reporting system for easy generation of status updates, all generated from a single bit of code. <script…
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Oct 15, 2013
External Reporting API
APIContext launches an API to let users extract report data and embed it as a dashboard on their own sites.
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Oct 5, 2013
New Features Week Ending 4/10
This week's new APIContext features include Tags for organizing tests across multiple APIs.
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Oct 5, 2013
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.
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Sep 27, 2013
New Features - here now
APIContext is exiting beta soon but still welcomes signups, with exciting new features on the way.
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Aug 22, 2013
Update - API Wizard
APIContext launches V1 of its API Wizard in beta, with rough edges expected and bug reports welcome.
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Aug 14, 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.
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Aug 13, 2013
Housekeeping: Bug Reporting for Beta Users
APIContext addresses a latency graph display issue for beta users as it migrates to a new graphing system.
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Aug 9, 2013
Housekeeping August 9 2013
APIContext explains low LinkedIn pass rates without errors, tracing the issue to an expired token and API warnings.
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Aug 9, 2013
Instagram Glitches 8/8 and 8/9
Instagram had a rough week with failures dropping its pass average to 99% and slower response times.
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Aug 8, 2013
Monthly API Performance July 2013
APIContext's July 2013 report covers 53,485 oAuth, 10,057 Share, and 43,543 profile tests across 16 services.
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