API Monitoring & Governance

APImetrics helped us identify significant latency and improve the “lightswitch” experience from more than 7 seconds to 500 milliseconds.

It’s really good … I see everything very quickly on one page and it makes it really easy to go to a problem spot and dig in. Just the other day, we had a single, random incident where one of our APIs flagged a content error, and the whole system made it easy to capture what was needed for the engineers to go do some detailed examination.

Rather than an inside-out view, we realized that we needed a specialized tool that could give us visibility into the performance of our site and apps in the same way that the rest of the internet sees us…

[APImetrics] helped us to increase visibility of our APIs performance and significantly improved awareness. It’s great to understand what challenges we would need to deal with once our international footprint increases… we were in a process of finishing up major internal stack optimizations and APImetrics really helped to measure/confirm improvements. More improvements are coming and it’s great to have an independent benchmark to compare against.

With APIMetrics, we were able to monitor the metrics of the API calls, collect them in one place, and then examine the collected data presented in the APIMetrics dashboard to gain insight about our performance. The analysis of the issues and research for possible solutions ... other developers interested in building APIs where duration speed is important would do well to consider APIMetrics... to facilitate improvement in performance.

MBIE has found APImetrics to be a very successful tool. The alerting and performance monitoring capabilities have given very useful information to operational teams. There is still capability that MBIE hasn’t yet utilised and it’s planned to take advantage of this, and increase the use of APImetrics across a more complete range of APIs, as its API programme grows further.