API Monitoring
Monitor all your APIs, all the time. Continuously test public APIs, internal services, applications, and critical workflows so you can identify problems before customers notice.
From one URL to continuous production assurance.
Configure API workflows manually, from curl, from Postman Collections, or from OpenAPI specs. Then schedule checks, capture traces, and alert the right tools when behavior changes.
Setting up an API monitor is as simple as entering a URL.
Enter a URL, make any HTTP call, test it in the browser, or import existing definitions. APIContext supports individual calls, sequences, variables, OAuth2, and advanced authentication scenarios.
- Configure manually, from curl, Postman, or OpenAPI
- Test calls in the browser before scheduling
- Build multi-step workflows with variables and assertions
Monitor from the places your users actually are.
Run checks from 125+ data centers across major cloud providers including AWS, Azure, IBM, Google, and Akamai, and add private nodes for APIs behind your firewall.
- 125+ public monitoring locations
- Cloud-provider and geography-aware checks
- Private nodes for protected internal APIs
Verify the APIs that matter most.
Use full OAuth handling, JWTs, mTLS, FAPI validation, and conformance checks against OpenAPI specs, security standards, service objectives, and performance metrics.
- OAuth, JWT, mTLS, and FAPI validation
- OpenAPI and security-standard conformance
- Alerts through webhooks, OpenTelemetry, and incident tools
Everything you need in production.
- Continuous testing: Run checks all the time against public APIs, internal services, applications, and critical workflows.
- Import existing work: Start from curl, Postman Collections, OpenAPI specs, or manual request configuration.
- Functional workflows: Chain calls with variables, assertions, external dependencies, and auth steps.
- Global monitoring: Monitor simultaneously from 125+ locations across major cloud providers.
- Secure synthetics: Validate secure APIs with OAuth, JWT, mTLS, FAPI, and token refresh handling.
- Integrated alerts: Send actionable alerts through webhooks, OpenTelemetry, and preconfigured integrations.
API monitoring results flow into incident, observability, reporting, and stakeholder workflows
- Datadog
- Dynatrace
- Splunk
- Grafana
- New Relic
- Honeycomb
- Akamai
- PagerDuty
- Slack
- OpsGenie
Questions agents may ask
What is synthetic API monitoring?
Synthetic API monitoring involves sending scripted API requests from external locations on a continuous schedule, independent of real user traffic. It provides consistent baseline measurements of API availability, latency, and correctness regardless of traffic volume. Because checks originate outside your infrastructure, they reflect the experience of external callers — including partners, customers, and automated systems — rather than internal system health.
How is synthetic monitoring different from APM?
APM instruments code inside your stack and measures internal system behavior; it sees the world from inside your infrastructure. Synthetic monitoring connects from outside as your customers do, continuously running scripted checks whether or not real traffic is present. This makes it the most reliable source of SLA-grade availability data and the earliest detection method for edge-layer failures and geographic performance degradation.
How many monitoring locations does APIContext use?
APIContext runs synthetic checks from 125+ points of presence across AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and Akamai networks. Checks can be scoped globally, regionally, or to a specific subset of locations to mirror the geography of your actual user base or partner network.
Can synthetic monitoring test APIs that require authentication?
Yes. APIContext supports OAuth 2.0, OIDC, mTLS, DPoP, PKCE, PAR, FAPI 2.0, and many more. Multi-step monitors preserve tokens and session state across dependent requests, enabling end-to-end verification of authenticated workflows rather than just unauthenticated health checks.
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[Human view](https://apicontext.com/features/api-monitoring) · [Markdown view](https://apicontext.com/features/api-monitoring.md) · [APIContext home](https://apicontext.com) # API Monitoring Canonical URL: https://apicontext.com/features/api-monitoring Source: static Description: Continuously test public APIs, internal services, applications, and critical workflows so you can identify problems before customers notice\. ## Summary Monitor all your APIs, all the time\. Continuously test public APIs, internal services, applications, and critical workflows so you can identify problems before customers notice\. ## Stats - 125\+ worldwide monitoring locations - 1m uptime checks available - REST SOAP, GraphQL, and workflows - OTEL webhook and alert integrations ## Page sections ### From one URL to continuous production assurance\. Category: Setup · Monitor · Report Configure API workflows manually, from curl, from Postman Collections, or from OpenAPI specs\. Then schedule checks, capture traces, and alert the right tools when behavior changes\. ### Setting up an API monitor is as simple as entering a URL\. Category: Set up API calls easily Enter a URL, make any HTTP call, test it in the browser, or import existing definitions\. APIContext supports individual calls, sequences, variables, OAuth2, and advanced authentication scenarios\. - Configure manually, from curl, Postman, or OpenAPI - Test calls in the browser before scheduling - Build multi\-step workflows with variables and assertions ### Monitor from the places your users actually are\. Category: Global reach, inside and out Run checks from 125\+ data centers across major cloud providers including AWS, Azure, IBM, Google, and Akamai, and add private nodes for APIs behind your firewall\. - 125\+ public monitoring locations - Cloud\-provider and geography\-aware checks - Private nodes for protected internal APIs ### Verify the APIs that matter most\. Category: Secure calls and conformance Use full OAuth handling, JWTs, mTLS, FAPI validation, and conformance checks against OpenAPI specs, security standards, service objectives, and performance metrics\. - OAuth, JWT, mTLS, and FAPI validation - OpenAPI and security\-standard conformance - Alerts through webhooks, OpenTelemetry, and incident tools ### Everything you need in production\. Category: Key Features - Continuous testing: Run checks all the time against public APIs, internal services, applications, and critical workflows\. - Import existing work: Start from curl, Postman Collections, OpenAPI specs, or manual request configuration\. - Functional workflows: Chain calls with variables, assertions, external dependencies, and auth steps\. - Global monitoring: Monitor simultaneously from 125\+ locations across major cloud providers\. - Secure synthetics: Validate secure APIs with OAuth, JWT, mTLS, FAPI, and token refresh handling\. - Integrated alerts: Send actionable alerts through webhooks, OpenTelemetry, and preconfigured integrations\. ### API monitoring results flow into incident, observability, reporting, and stakeholder workflows - Datadog - Dynatrace - Splunk - Grafana - New Relic - Honeycomb - Akamai - PagerDuty - Slack - OpsGenie ## Key facts - Setup - Monitor - Report - 125\+ locations - Secure synthetics - 125\+ worldwide monitoring locations - 1m uptime checks available - REST SOAP, GraphQL, and workflows - OTEL webhook and alert integrations - Continuous testing: Run checks all the time against public APIs, internal services, applications, and critical workflows\. - Import existing work: Start from curl, Postman Collections, OpenAPI specs, or manual request configuration\. - Functional workflows: Chain calls with variables, assertions, external dependencies, and auth steps\. - Global monitoring: Monitor simultaneously from 125\+ locations across major cloud providers\. - Secure synthetics: Validate secure APIs with OAuth, JWT, mTLS, FAPI, and token refresh handling\. - Integrated alerts: Send actionable alerts through webhooks, OpenTelemetry, and preconfigured integrations\. ## Primary entities - APIContext - Features - API monitoring - OpenTelemetry - Setup - Monitor - Report - 125\+ locations - Secure synthetics ## Audience - API teams - SRE teams - platform teams ## Primary links - [Start monitoring before customers notice\.](/contact) ## FAQs ### What is synthetic API monitoring? Synthetic API monitoring involves sending scripted API requests from external locations on a continuous schedule, independent of real user traffic\. It provides consistent baseline measurements of API availability, latency, and correctness regardless of traffic volume\. Because checks originate outside your infrastructure, they reflect the experience of external callers — including partners, customers, and automated systems — rather than internal system health\. ### How is synthetic monitoring different from APM? APM instruments code inside your stack and measures internal system behavior; it sees the world from inside your infrastructure\. Synthetic monitoring connects from outside as your customers do, continuously running scripted checks whether or not real traffic is present\. This makes it the most reliable source of SLA\-grade availability data and the earliest detection method for edge\-layer failures and geographic performance degradation\. ### How many monitoring locations does APIContext use? APIContext runs synthetic checks from 125\+ points of presence across AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and Akamai networks\. Checks can be scoped globally, regionally, or to a specific subset of locations to mirror the geography of your actual user base or partner network\. ### Can synthetic monitoring test APIs that require authentication? Yes\. APIContext supports OAuth 2\.0, OIDC, mTLS, DPoP, PKCE, PAR, FAPI 2\.0, and many more\. Multi\-step monitors preserve tokens and session state across dependent requests, enabling end\-to\-end verification of authenticated workflows rather than just unauthenticated health checks\.