Synthetic API monitoring for performance and conformance
Now in partnership with Akamai
APIContext is an official partner with Akamai Technologies, one of the largest and most trusted internet infrastructure companies in the world. Our partnership enables Akamai customers to leverage advanced synthetic testing to ensure their APIs meet critical performance, compliance, and governance standards at scale.
Make it easy to get insights on your API performance and quality, and develop unique insights about your own APIs. Below are some recent reports from the billions of API calls we already run, analyzing API resilience in a variety of ways.
API quality is key to application Delivery
When your APIs do not deliver quickly and consistently, your customer experience suffers. APIContext monitors your APIs to ensure they are fast and reliable.
- Real API calls to your production environment gives you true customer experience insights
- Global reach with more than 100 points of presence, to ensure you understand performance for every customer
- Compare performance across multiple cloud service providers
- Ensure high-value API workflows, like authentication and checkout, do not fail when you need them most
- Ensure your APIs align with design specifications to improve API security
Cloud service provider API quality analysis
We made over 650 million API calls to more than 10,000 different API endpoints, and tracked the performance data of AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM and other cloud providers.
Then we analyzed the performance of each cloud provider from over 100 data center locations. And we bring the findings to you in this report.
CSPs are struggling under the weight of AI, and as a result, cloud performance is worse on several metrics compared to last year. This may mean you’re not getting the service you are paying for.
Review the white paper to see detailed recommendations for how to optimize your application for the latest cloud architecture.
APIs often do not match their design specs
After validating billions of API calls, we have seen a number of common issues with production APIs.
We evaluated OpenAPI specifications and definitions to understand if APIs were poorly designed, or had gaps in implementation.
What we found was surprising. The majority of publicly available API architecture documents were different to their production APIs. When a production API differs from its published specification, we see API Drift.
We reviewed APIs from across the ecosystem to better understand API Drift, its causes, and how to prevent it.
We found that 75% of production APIs we tested had variances to their published OpenAPI Specifications.
API Drift leads to confusion, complication, and API errors.
Review the full paper to see the problem of API Drift, and what to do about it.
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