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 evidence ready for FedRAMP, FISMA, and OMB customer-experience reporting.
FedRAMP · StateRAMPFISMA Mod · HighNIST 800-53 · 800-218OMB M-22-2221st Century IDEA
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 POPs
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
ATO evidence that writes itself.
Your auditor doesn't want a dashboard screenshot — they want continuous evidence, per service, mapped to the controls. APIcontext generates run-by-run logs that line up with FedRAMP continuous monitoring, FISMA reporting, and NIST 800-53 / 800-218 expectations, with an immutable trail your ATO package can cite.
FedRAMP Moderate · High aligned
FISMA continuous monitoring evidence
NIST 800-53 · 800-218 control mapping
Authority to Operate
6 frameworks · evidence ready
continuous
FedRAMP
Federal Risk & Auth Mgmt
Moderate · High
Authorized boundaries · continuous mon.
FISMA
Federal Information Security
Moderate · High
Annual compliance · POA&M tracking
NIST
Security & SSDF controls
800-53 · 800-218
Mapped to API monitoring evidence
M-22-22
21st Century IDEA
OMB Memo
Citizen-facing service quality
StateRAMP
State & Local cloud auth
Cat. 1 · 2 · 3
Mirrors FedRAMP for SLED
FIPS-140
Cryptographic modules
2 · 3
Validated TLS · key storage
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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