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Citizens depend on your APIs. So do other agencies.

Modern government runs on APIs — for benefits, taxes, permits, identity, and open data. APIContext gives federal, state, and local teams an independent, outside-in view of every public-facing service from the networks citizens actually use, with run-by-run evidence for every check.

agency · HHS · live · us-east-1service healthy
CITcitizensBIZbusinessesRESresearchersGOVother agency
Agency API gatewayapi.hhs.gov
CMScase mgmtIAMidentityDATdata lakePTRpartner svcTLS 1.3FIPSmTLSOIDC
grants.govGET /api/v2/grants/opportunities· HHS · us-east-1200 · 184ms
agencies 22endpoints 418healthy 21incident 1
11M+residents served by monitored services
73%fewer citizen-impacting incidents
0scripts to write or maintain
Dedicated

Test the service the way a resident actually uses it.

Pings tell you a server is alive. They don't tell you that someone trying to apply for benefits gets stuck on step three at 11pm on a Sunday. APIContext runs full multi-step journeys — through identity, eligibility, intake, and notification — on schedule, from the networks your residents use.

Multi-step journeys with payload assertions
Login.gov, OIDC, PKCE, mTLS — handled, no scripts
Mobile carrier and rural-broadband probes
journey · "apply for benefits" · 24/7 · 8 regionspassing
1
GET /portal/landing
TTFB · 96ms
96ms
2
POST /login.gov/oidc/authorize
OIDC PKCE
211ms
3
GET /eligibility/v1/check
200 · payload ✓
312ms
4
POST /forms/v2/applications/intake
201 · stored
488ms
5
GET /case-mgmt/v1/cases/{id}
200 · queued
142ms
6
POST /notify.gov/v1/messages
email + sms
188ms
total 1,437mssteps 6/6last 24h 99.92%per region 8 nodes
Understanding

What citizens see — not what your enclave dashboard says.

Inside the agency boundary, your APM goes green. Meanwhile, IPv6 paths are broken, mobile carriers are routing slowly, and Login.gov redirects are stalling. APIContext probes from outside the perimeter so you find what internal tools physically cannot see.

Probes across every major commercial and gov cloud
DNS, TLS, IPv4/IPv6, certificate, CDN-edge health
Side-by-side: inside agent vs. outside-in reality
Outside-in vs. inside-out
What citizens see vs. what your dashboard says
4 hidden faults
Inside · agency APM
99.98%
p95 · 138ms · all green
Inside the network boundary, every probe passes.
Outside · APIContext
96.8%
p95 · 712ms · 4 regional faults
From the networks citizens actually use, the picture is different.
# detected only by outside-in probes:
✗ Mobile carrier · slow TLS · rural west · p95 +890ms
✗ IPv6 path broken · 7 cities · partial timeout
✗ Login.gov redirect chain stalls · 2.1% sessions
✗ PDF download truncated · 504 over CDN edge
Proactive

Evidence that writes itself.

Your auditor doesn't want a dashboard screenshot — they want continuous evidence, per service. APIContext generates run-by-run logs for every monitored service, with the request and response data behind each result.

Run-by-run logs, per service
Request and response data kept with each result
Results per monitored location
Evidence
Every run, logged
continuous
RUN
Run-by-run logs
every scheduled check
One record per check, with timing and result
REQ
Request and response
per call
Payloads and headers kept with each result
SVC
Results per service
per service
Each monitored service reported on its own
LOC
Results per location
per location
Checks run from each configured location
APIContext has been a very successful tool. The alerting and performance monitoring capabilities have given very useful information to operational teams.
Simon FergussonMinistry of Business, Innovation and Employment, New Zealand

API monitoring you can show to an auditor — and a citizen.

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