API monitoring

Application performance interface (API) monitoring ensures the reliability of APIs by tracking their availability, response times, and functional accuracy. API monitoring tools provide valuable metrics related to the steps in a transaction, help in ensuring the security of your APIs, and enable performance optimization.

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What is API monitoring?

API monitoring is a critical component of web service management and plays a pivotal role in ensuring the optimal functioning of web services. By carefully observing and analyzing API interactions, organizations can proactively identify and address potential issues that may affect user experience. This monitoring safeguards the reliability and performance of digital infrastructure.

How can API monitoring help you?

Multi-step API monitoring helps you see beyond the surface, revealing hidden bottlenecks and dependencies that can slow down your API performance. With a detailed log of each step, you can:

Pinpoint performance issues: Identify the exact step causing delays.
Map dependencies: Understand external factors impacting your API.
Stay ahead of problems: Set up proactive alerts for potential issues.

How API monitoring works

Based on the location server you've chosen (public or private), you can monitor specific APIs used in your application, their endpoints, authentication details, and expected responses.

Simulated API requests will be created at regular intervals to mimic real-world scenarios.

Performance metrics (e.g., response time), availability, and accuracy of the API responses will be analyzed. A comparison of the measured performance metrics against predefined thresholds will be done. If any metrics exceed their thresholds, an alert will be triggered. Additional data on the API performance can be obtained through a seamless integration with our RUM and APM tools.

Alert notifications will be sent via email, SMS, push notifications, or through integrated collaboration tools. This helps to notify relevant teams promptly or individuals to address issues.

The logs, monitoring data, and application diagnostics help in investigating the cause of an alert. Take corrective actions to resolve the issue and restore normal API functionality. Analyze historical performance data to identify trends, patterns, and areas for improvement.

All the data obtained can be used to implement changes to optimize API performance, such as code refactoring, infrastructure upgrades, or caching. Repeat the monitoring process to ensure ongoing API health and performance. Continuously adjust thresholds, alerts, and monitoring strategies based on evolving needs.

Optimize API performance by tracking endpoints, gateways, and responses

Identify and address performance and availability issues that impact APIs, reduce technical debt, and gain valuable insights into the behavior and performance of your API mesh. Maintain peak performance and prevent disruptions with our comprehensive suite of API monitoring tools. We offer a range of solutions to keep your integrations running smoothly, no matter the protocol:

REST API monitoring

Monitor the performance and accessibility of your REST APIs. Receive alerts if API responses don't meet your specified validation criteria, using RegEx, XPath, or JSONPath. Additionally, validate your JSON responses against a defined schema.

REST API transaction monitoring

Track the performance and behavior of your REST APIs. Monitor workflows, test endpoints, and validate API responses. Monitor workflows in REST applications and get synthetic monitoring performed for web application workflows. You can monitor a sequence of 25 endpoint URLs and even allow parameter forwarding in your step sequence. Enjoy the flexibility of importing APIs in various formats, including POSTMAN, HAR, cURL, WSOL, or Hoppscotch.

SOAP monitoring

Ensure your SOAP-based web services are functioning properly and get regular availability and performance checks done. Get alerted you whenever the response (XML) does not bear the specified SOAP attribute name or when the SOAP attribute value provided in response validation does not validate against its corresponding SOAP attribute name.

gRPC monitoring

Run health checks to ensure the availability of your gRPC services and the functionality of all the related services. Track whether the client-server communication is working well by ensuring that the data is rendering and by confirming whether the gRPC endpoints are available. Validate the availability of your service, track the RPC time, as well as ensure the presence of an expected output. You can also configure a threshold for the RPC time, upon breaching which, an alert notification will be sent to you.

GraphQL monitoring

Site24x7's GraphQL monitoring provides a comprehensive solution for ensuring the performance and reliability of your GraphQL APIs. You can track the performance of your GraphQL API endpoints in real time, identifying issues as they arise, measure key metrics such as response time or error rates to trace bottlenecks and optimize performance.

What makes Site24x7 stand out as the top API monitoring tool?

AI-powered anomaly detection
Custom dashboards and detailed reports
Third-party alert integrations
Root cause analysis (RCA) to identify the reason for outages and service level (SLA) reports
Android and iOS apps
Zero false alerts (Rechecks from secondary locations)

Fine-tune the performance of your APIs with our robust AI-powered monitoring tool!