Blog & News
Apr 7, 2017
The US Census Bureau tweeted this about their API on the morning of Apr 6, 2017. They even sent us an email: We are currently experiencing an extended interruption in service for the Census data API.…
Apr 5, 2017
Does this story sound familiar? Marketing's having an issue with a mission-critical API. DevOps says there is no issue. After much research, Marketing was right – there is a problem. The API doesn't…
Mar 30, 2017
It's 3 a.m. You're dead asleep. The phone rings. You blunder around trying to locate your phone. Oh thank God - it's work! Only work. No one is dead. It's the support desk. Your most important…
Mar 22, 2017
On February 28, it seemed like half the internet went down. The Amazon AWS S3 cloud storage system in northern Virginia suffered an outage that lasted more than four hours. In internet time, that’s…
Mar 17, 2017
A quick programming note for everybody, and the obligatory Happy St Patrick's Day, we've released some new features this week that will improve the stats functions. You can now view statistics for…
Mar 15, 2017
Forty years ago, the average car barely had a transistor in it. But a car in 2017 is basically a bunch of incredibly sophisticated software riding around on some very high-end processors attached to…
Feb 16, 2017
Hot on the heels of our Improved Call Data Visualizations and Reporting, the APIContext user interface now has a fresh new look for 2017. Our improved interface makes our service even more…
Jan 24, 2017
Welcome to 2017 and with it, the first of a bunch of new reporting features. They're designed to tell you more about what's actually impacting your API and SaaS performance. First out of the gate –…
Nov 3, 2016
The world is increasingly reliant on APIs to drive mobile apps, services and corporate operations. But how do you measure the quality of the APIs you use or depend on? APIContext have been working on…
Sep 27, 2016
First Utility is a leading energy supplier in the United Kingdom. They were having issues with the quality of the APIs that were powering their mobile apps. The challenge they faced was simple. They had extensive testing and monitoring including API Gateway monitoring, Selenium based web test tools and Splunk based logs. But they were hitting performance issues...
Sep 9, 2016
[caption id="attachment_2407" align="alignleft" width="300"] 70% of all API problems have no easy way to identify root cause[/caption] In a survey of 20 of the leading corporate infrastructure APIs,…
Jul 6, 2016
It's come to our attention that we had a significant issue affecting data collection from our remote agents over the 4th of July weekend. We've traced the problem to our services bus that connects…
Jun 16, 2016
We're in the process of rolling out some new analytics tools and we've been looking at some headline numbers. The first headline number is 83,000,000 - that's how many API calls we've run since we…
May 13, 2016
An article including a number of things we've discovered over the last year and very handy for anybody who is starting to try and figure out what a Service Level Agreement (SLA) actually means for an…
May 4, 2016
As one of our feature enhancements we've improved the way our agents work, we are now consistently capturing key data on the actual API performance including: DNS Lookup time: i.e. 28355µs (28ms)…
May 4, 2016
We frequently check general performance data to look for 'odd' responses and we found an interesting one today which involved an API call on a test server which took -284,027ms, or just a little…
Mar 30, 2016
Open government initiatives and a move to use SaaS and Cloud services is changing how governments use and access APIs. In New Zealand, the Ministry of Business and Innovation provides access to a range of government services targeting investors and businesses across New Zealand ...
Jan 19, 2016
Twitter had an extremely rare outage today, as our recent social media report showed, they're one of the most reliable services we measure. But they do have outages and given the range of services…
Jan 9, 2016
We'll have more details out shortly but there's a lot of features and changes coming in the next few days, once we're through the final testing. These include, but are not limited to: System wide…
Nov 13, 2015
Hello, welcome to yet another development update. Our test team were very quick verifying our latest sprint, so we already have a new version live. Two releases in one week, we're really treating…
Nov 12, 2015
Welcome to the first of a regular series where we update you on the newest features added to APIContext! Today's release features: API Blueprint support in the importer. Remote Locations updated with…
Nov 3, 2015
For our second API Health Report we decided to look at Social Networking APIs, specifically Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr - like with our first report we were interested in how your choice of cloud…
Aug 6, 2015
The Internet of Things (IoT) has gone from a “buzzword” term, to a potential multi trillion dollar industry. No longer is the idea of a “smart home” or connected self-driving cars a science fiction…
Jul 29, 2015
Using APIContext to provide easy to track calls. We already provide logs of all API calls that include a detailed time stamp so you can find a specific item. Here’s another way to track calls through…
