Use Case · SLA Management

Service levels are only useful if both sides agree on what they mean.

Companies depend on APIs to enable time-sensitive, mission-critical business activities. Agreeing on and actively validating SLA conformance is essential. Third-party verification stops internal teams from hiding or misrepresenting performance, and gives Customer Success the data they need to defend the contract.

Third-party verifiedMutual SLA reportsMulti-cloud probesService-credit evidenceCustomer-shaped
contract · acme ↔ suppliers · 30d window1 SLA breach · credit due
Provider
acme.com
SLA
third-party
Counterparty
customer · supplier
you · providerPayments APISLA 99.95%99.97%MET
supplier · plaid/transactionsSLA 99.5%99.21%BREACH
supplier · stripe/v1/chargesSLA 99.95%99.99%MET
measured from125+ external POPs· same locations, same credentials, as customersindependent · auditable
contracts 14SLAs 62met 61breach 1credit owed $14,200
3rd-partyindependent measurement
125+global probe locations
24/7functional calls and low-traffic coverage
0scripts to write or maintain
Set & test SLOs

Set Service Level Objectives, and prove you can hit them.

Don't sign an SLA you can't defend. Set targets in APIContext, run them against production from the regions your customers use, and watch budgets burn down over the contract window.

Targets per route, per region, and per supplier
Live SLO budget tracking with burn-rate alerts
Mutual visibility, so customer and provider see the same numbers
Configuration as code, versioned with the API contract
per-region SLA · POST /v1/payments · last 30dSLA 99.95%
AWS
us-east-1
p95 · 142ms
99.98%
AWS
eu-west-2
p95 · 168ms
99.96%
AWS
ap-south-1
p95 · 412ms
99.81%
GCP
us-central1
p95 · 124ms
99.99%
Azure
eastus
p95 · 138ms
99.98%
Akamai
global-edge
p95 · 102ms
99.99%
Measure from where

Third-party measurement. The team being graded isn't grading themselves.

Internal APM tells you what your stack says. APIContext tells you what your customers see. When the two disagree, independent measurement is the tiebreaker.

Outside-in synthetic calls, not from inside your VPC
Trust and confidence from metrics not owned by the delivery team
Inside-vs-outside comparison for the real customer experience
Defensible to leadership, customers, and regulators
Two views · same API · same week
Engineering says it is fine
0.21% gap
Inside · APM
99.99%
p95 · 138ms
Graded by the team being measured.
Outside · APIContext
99.78%
p95 · 412ms · ap-south-1
What customers actually experience.
# the 0.21% the customer is filing tickets about:
TLS handshake regression · ap-south-1 · since Tue 09:14
DNS intermittent · 3.4% loss from in-region resolvers
neither visible to the in-VPC APM agent
Create standard reports

One number both sides accept, because both sides see it the same way.

Generate mutual SLA compliance reports from live traffic, using the same locations and credentials your customers actually use. Service credits, breach evidence, and renewal data all come from the same independent feed.

Provider-customer mutual reports, monthly or quarterly
Auto-calculated service credits with line-item evidence
Per-region, per-route, and per-cloud breakdowns
PDF, CSV, and JSON export for regulator-ready reporting
mutual-sla-report.pdf · Q3 2025signed by both parties
serviceSLAAugSepOct
Payments API99.95%99.97%99.96%99.98%
Accounts API99.9%99.94%99.92%99.95%
Webhooks99.5%99.71%99.42%99.62%
Auth · OAuth99.99%99.99%99.99%99.99%
Credits owed
$1,840 · Webhooks · Sep
Send to customer
Base SLOs and SLAs

Base SLOs and SLAs on real-world performance.

Base existing and future SLOs and SLAs on real-world performance metrics. Don't get caught offering service levels that can't be achieved. Benchmark against the rest of your sector.

Real-world SLO baselining
Sector benchmarks and CASC score context
Risk-priced SLA negotiation data
Contract clauses backed by observed availability
contract · acme ↔ suppliers · 30d window1 SLA breach · credit due
Provider
acme.com
SLA
third-party
Counterparty
customer · supplier
you · providerPayments APISLA 99.95%99.97%MET
supplier · plaid/transactionsSLA 99.5%99.21%BREACH
supplier · stripe/v1/chargesSLA 99.95%99.99%MET
measured from125+ external POPs· same locations, same credentials, as customersindependent · auditable
contracts 14SLAs 62met 61breach 1credit owed $14,200
Built for the people who care

From Customer Success to vendor management, one signal serves them all.

Customer Success teams stop getting blindsided. Vendor managers stop arguing with suppliers about who is at fault. Sales and legal sign SLAs they can actually defend.

Customer Success gets pre-emptive tickets and defensible answers
Engineering gets an independent number leadership trusts
Vendor management gets supplier credit claims backed by data
Sales and legal get contract clauses based on real-world data
Who it is for
One signal · four conversations
independent
Customer Success

Pre-emptive tickets, defensible answers

Engineering

Independent number leadership trusts

Vendor management

Supplier credit claims backed by data

Sales & legal

Contract clauses based on real-world data

We were able to monitor the metrics of API calls, collect them in one place, and gain real insight about our performance. Other developers building APIs where duration and speed matter would do well to consider APIContext to drive performance improvement.
David TingNylas

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