API Monitoring

Leverage the only codeless Synthetic Monitoring Tool for API Transactions, built on the SoapUI functional test engine.

Monitor API Availability, Performance and Functional Correctness

As you strive to deliver world class web, mobile and SaaS applications, make sure the APIs that power them are running smoothly. AlertSite makes it easier than ever to monitor your private, partner, or public APIs - REST or SOAP - effortlessly.

Monitor API Transactions
Alert the right team immediately
Monitor public & private APIs
Reuse existing SoapUI functional tests or Swagger/OpenAPI Files to automate monitor creation

1000s of Companies Have Made AlertSite Their Monitoring Partner

Ensure Complete API Quality- Not Just 200 OK

Avoid 'false positives' from just availability 200 OK checks
Verify API speed, performance, and payloads return the right data
Test API performance and verify functionality in production (or pre-prod like staging environments)
Codeless Monitor creation - simply paste the Endpoint URL or reuse API functional tests

AlertSite monitors the functionality, performance, correctness, and speed of every API call. Easily create advanced API monitors right from the dashboard, or simply by reusing your existing OpenAPI/Swagger defintions or SoapUI functional tests.

Alert the Right Team- Be the First to Know When API Performance Degrades

Route Alerts by error code, step level, team, and more!
Be the first to know about API issues with alerts sent directly from the monitoring nodes
Get instant actionable insights to isolate the root cause and reduce downtime
Engage subject matter experts right away by using our advanced customizations, targeting, and routing.

Get Visibility into API Transactions- Monitor End-to-End API Performance

Validate Payloads to ensure APIs return the right data
Monitor each step in the series of API calls to ensure correctness and performance
Add Assertions for API payloads with JSON and XML assertions
Test-on-demand functionalities from our 350 global nodes

With no false alarms, hybrid deployment options, and codeless scripting, AlertSite API Monitoring offers comprehensive, actionable insights into everything from availability, redirects, and authentication, to sequenced API calls that require the passing of variables pulled from the previous API responses.

Monitor Private APIs and Web Services

Monitor Private APIs with the same rigor as externally facing APIs
Monitor from key locations in your enterprise, even in private networks
Deploy on an Endpoint Agent, VMWare, HyperV, or a pre-configured server

Microservices and APIs are critical part of modern applications. Slow or dysfunctional internal APIs affect your internal applications and decelerate innovation. Monitor internal APIs that serve your internal customers from within your private network using our private nodes placed in your local network, data center, or private cloud. Monitoring APIs continually throughout the CI cycle and detect and fix issues early on, aiding to continuous deployment and DevOps initiatives.

76% of teams that have a formal API monitoring process & view monitoring a top priority resolve API performance issues within the first 24 hours.

Compare Runscope & Postman - Unmatched API Monitoring Coverage

AlertSite outmatches Runscope and Postman in monitoring capabilities, alerting, and support. Runscope and Postman are suitable for users trying to run a simple test or monitor run, but for long term, comprehensive API Monitoring AlertSite is a better fit for Ops and DevOps teams. Ops and DevOps teams alike can stand up complex, functional and performance monitors in just a few clicks.

See how AlertSite stacks up

Feature	Runscope	Postman	AlertSite
Monitor both UI layer and API layer	No	No	Yes
SLA Reporting & Alerting	No	No	Yes
Granular Alert Targeting	No	No	Yes
Failure validations/retry before alert	No	No	Yes
Programmatic control (API)	Yes	Yes	Yes

Streamline Monitor Creation & Decrease MTTR

From Designing APIs using OpenAPI Specifications
To Testing APIs with SoapUI
To Monitoring APIs with AlertSite
Debug Faster, Identify Root-Cause easier, Decrease MTTR.

Promote API integrity across departments by leveraging specifications and tests you've already defined. Getting up and running in AlertSite is quick and easy, simply paste the URL of the API endpoint you want to monitor, import your OAS/Swagger definiton, or import the SoapUI functional tests you've created to monitor key transactions that are vital to your business.

Increase Agility for DevOps Teams and CICD Initiatives

Programmatically control and automate processes with AlertSite's REST API. Check out our API documentation
Deliver your APIs faster by testing on demand in your test and staging environments before pushing to production
Reuse the OpenAPI (or Swagger) Specifications and SoapUI Tests/Projects to stand up API monitors instantly and start getting faster feedback
Debug faster - monitors identify where the errors occured in the shared code from your QA or test teams, making it easy to track down and has context for when the problem occured.

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