Ensure the availability, performance, and functionality of first or third-party APIs
Monitor. Measure. Test.
Proactively monitor, measure, and test your critical APIs. This is especially important when third-party APIs are involved, and traditional application performance monitoring has no reach. Whether the API is your product, or you rely on them to support your product, Catchpoint’s Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) gives you the ability to ensure their availability, performance, and functionality. Run API tests as code, schedule them in your CI/CD, or execute on-demand, instantly.
Core uptime monitoring, alerting, functionality testing, and assertions for single API URI or multi-step API transactions
Run anywhere from tens to thousands of proactive API uptime, performance, or functionality checks per minute - depending on the criticality of the API – and be instantly alerted per specified conditions or violations.
Perform assertions or inverse assertions on any aspect of the API response, such as asserting that the response code is always 200 or not 403 or 302. This improves the efficacy and effectiveness of your alerting and troubleshooting activities.
Infinite metric, indicator, or variable options
Automatically capture HTTP/S metrics such as DNS, connect, SSL, wait, load, and size. Extract any portion of the response and transform it into a custom chartable, actionable indicator.
Examples include JSON parsing, storing variables (e.g., OAuth tokens) for reuse in subsequent runs, capturing pod or server names, version numbers, or measuring the back-end time required to call a downstream dependency.
This approach provides comprehensive visibility into the overall API experience and the supporting components that may influence this experience.
Powerful analytics and AI simplification for data exploration
The request-response performance data of API transaction monitoring can vary significantly by geography and other factors. For example, performance may differ between requests from North America and the EU, or response times may vary based on the cloud provider.
Catchpoint’s advanced analytics allow for the exploration and analysis of these data sets to uncover insights across various dimensions. Users can perform statistical calculations (e.g., median, geometric mean, arithmetic average, histograms, or cumulative functions) to find new insights.
Additionally, AI-powered smartboards can automatically identify critical events such as trend shifts or event correlations.
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High-grade visibility across the full API path
APIs must be reachable to measure and test their performance and functionality. Examples include initial DNS resolution, points of internet interconnection, reverse proxies, and gateways. Enhance API monitoring with comprehensive Internet Performance Monitoring to achieve end-to-end visibility into overall health and component dependencies.
Monitor the entire path from different geographies
Monitor paths to, and between, APIs with the world's largest observability network. Key use cases like integration assurance, UI responsiveness, and edge worker deployments need continuous reachability to external endpoints to perform their intended functions successfully.
This IPM-level visibility into the entire path, not just the API implementation, is crucial for optimal API resilience.
Distributed tracing for all the [ephemeral] things
Drill down from proactive, synthetic API telemetry through distributed traces to map your API journeys and interactions across microservices and gateways.
With Open Telemetry (OTeL) compliant tracing on the tail end of proactive API monitoring, monitoring strategists can capture traces for ephemeral API calls and view seamlessly integrated Internet Stack Map data in the same platform.
Extend the full functionality of API monitoring to your premise with Enterprise Nodes
Enterprise Nodes bring the full functionality of proactive API monitoring to your premises, or any location with an internet connection. This allows organizations to comprehensively integrate monitoring across their entire CI/CD pipeline.
You can provision API tests as code, trigger them based on events, or monitor complex, multi-party API toolchains to maintain both agility and stability. Additionally, custom internal scripts can be converted into scheduled API monitors for specialized scenarios.
Use them to monitor SSH, VoIP, doorbells, sockets, databases, bandwidth – anything you’ve got a script for.
