Blog & News
Jun 5, 2018
Our friend Kin Lane has an interesting article over at his essential API Evangelist site that includes a shout out for us. Kin discusses the trend in US government circles towards microprocurement.…
May 17, 2018
Fresh from congratulating a UK CMA9 bank on keeping their V1 and V2 APIs going for a decent period beyond the February switchover, we had a deeper look to see if the two APIs performed differently.…
May 14, 2018
APIContext is excited to be part of the Washington State Trade Mission to Japan, the trip will be focusing on AI, and we're looking to make connections with any Japanese company or companies doing…
May 8, 2018
Email Controls You can now set your email preferences from the alerting menu, this will automatically subscribe or unsubscribe you from the various email reporting options like weekly and daily…
May 4, 2018
[caption id="attachment_4857" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Competition and Markets Authority[/caption] In March, we published a report on the UK's public CMA9 Open Banking APIs V2 from the…
May 2, 2018
Most of the world is probably aware of the 5th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Most countries have their own version: No person … shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a…
Apr 16, 2018
I am fond of the saying, Who watches the watchers? When applied to the API sector, it addresses a very real problem: How do you manage standards and adherence to standards in the API space? Nacha ,…
Apr 16, 2018
It's always fascinating to us how your choice of Cloud Host can impact your performance. For example, we noticed some issues with the Equifax API we monitor. There are a lot of issues. Over the last…
Apr 9, 2018
We've often made the point that 200 OK is not necessarily OK. But I don't think the point can be made enough: 200 OK is not necessarily OK – at all! Just because you are getting a 200 back doesn't…
Apr 9, 2018
PSD2 is driven top-down by the European Commission and the European Banking Authority (EBA). But it is built bottom-up by the banks and other service providers themselves. And the Commission/EBA…
Apr 7, 2018
We've now added one of the features that everybody has been asking for, daily and weekly alert status mails. The emails will initially cover the basics - the number of calls you've made, the number…
Apr 6, 2018
This is part II of a two-part series. To jump back, read this first . The paradigm within PSD2 and open banking generally is that anyone can connect to anyone. A few US banks have shown some interest…
Apr 5, 2018
It is universally accepted that Europe is far ahead of North America in the development of open banking. What activity there is mainly focuses on aggregation. But this is just one part of PSD2 (the…
Apr 2, 2018
During the month of March, APIContext monitored the quality of 102 CMA9 APIs, approximately 25 of these were V1 APIs, which were all deprecated during the month. Of the remaining V2 APIs, over a…
Mar 30, 2018
Let’s take a real example from a customer. One of their users logged a service complaint, and the internal SRE (Service Reliability Engineering) team checked their passive monitoring. Server logs in Splunk...
Mar 30, 2018
Your passive monitoring stack is vital in understanding how your applications, and the APIs on which the applications depend, are being used over time and how they are behaving. But there are many…
Mar 30, 2018
When it comes to your SLA, no service has 100% uptime. Things need to be maintained. It takes time to update something. There will be periods where something, somewhere has gone wrong. We know this,…
Mar 22, 2018
Something we've talked a LOT about is when an API returns a HTTP 200 ok code, but the API returns an error. This can be a challenge for a gateway's passive monitoring and backend services to spot…
Mar 21, 2018
What do telecoms and banks have in common when it comes to APIs? Well, in the early days of the API revolution – as long as 3 or 4 years ago! – there was a race by telecoms to open up their backend…
Mar 20, 2018
One of the issues we frequently see is clients having issues with moving to active external monitoring from internal testing or testing through their API documentation system (like Apiary, Postman or…
Mar 19, 2018
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Mar 14, 2018
The transducers in the sonar for HMS Dreadnought , Britain's first nuclear submarine, were actually designed to ping all the way across the Atlantic and back again. But for the last five decades,…
Mar 6, 2018
API performance monitoring is part of managing, and here at APIContext our mantra is: You have to manage your APIs. And if you are relying purely on passive monitoring of API gateways, you are not…
Mar 2, 2018
In reading up on Open Banking, we recently came across an interesting letter from Olivier Guersent, the European Commission's Director‑General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital…
