{"id":106167,"date":"2026-02-27T08:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/produkte-zur-ueberwachung\/api-monitoring\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T18:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:20:07","slug":"api-ueberwachung","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/de\/produkte-zur-ueberwachung\/api-ueberwachung\/","title":{"rendered":"API Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAPI Monitoring\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tREST \u00b7 SOAP \u00b7 GraphQL \u00b7 Postman\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id='api-monitoring-software-that-catches-failing-apis-before-they-break-your-product'  id=\"boomdevs_1\">API Monitoring Software That Catches Failing APIs Before They Break Your Product<\/h1>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tDotcom-Monitor is API monitoring software that runs synthetic checks against every API your team depends on \u2014 REST, SOAP, GraphQL, Postman, and Insomnia collections \u2014 from 30+ global locations. Chains multi-step workflows, validates every payload, and pages the right people the moment something breaks.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/userauth.dotcom-monitor.com\/Account\/FreeTrialSignUp?SolutionType=Monitoring\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart 30-day free trial<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\/demo\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTalk to a performance engineer<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/api-monitoring-hero.svg\" alt=\"A flat-vector wireframe globe on a deep navy background with six monitoring checkpoint nodes orbiting it \u2014 five healthy green, one orange featured \u2014 connected by dashed threads, with a central &quot;Monitoring active&quot; status pill showing 37 monitors across 30+ regions at 99.99%.\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNo credit card required\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAll features included\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLive in under 5 minutes\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCancel anytime \u00b7 No auto-charge after trial\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t10,000+\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tOrganizations Worldwide\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t99.99%\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPlatform Uptime SLA\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t30+\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGlobal Monitoring Locations\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSince 1998\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWebsite Monitoring Leader\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"255\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/aflac_logo-1.png\" alt=\"Aflac logo \u2014 Dotcom-Monitor customer\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/aflac_logo-1.png 800w, https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/aflac_logo-1-300x96.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/aflac_logo-1-768x245.png 768w, https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/aflac_logo-1-314x100.png 314w, https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/aflac_logo-1-251x80.png 251w, https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/aflac_logo-1-394x126.png 394w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dell_logo-1.png\" title=\"dell_logo\" alt=\"Dell logo \u2014 Dotcom-Monitor customer\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/comcast_logo-1.png\" title=\"comcast_logo\" alt=\"Comcast logo \u2014 Dotcom-Monitor customer\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dish_logo-1.png\" title=\"dish_logo\" alt=\"dish_logo\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/citrix_logo-1.png\" title=\"citrix_logo\" alt=\"citrix_logo\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/xerox-logo-grey.png\" title=\"xerox-logo-grey\" alt=\"xerox\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<iframe src=https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1210638394?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479 frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"Dotcom-Monitor API Monitoring Overview\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tThe basics\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h2 id='what-is-api-monitoring'  id=\"boomdevs_2\">What Is API Monitoring?<\/h2>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tQuick Answer\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><strong>API monitoring is the continuous, automated practice of validating API endpoints for availability, response time, and data correctness<\/strong> \u2014 running synthetic requests from outside your infrastructure and alerting your team the moment any of those break. Unlike one-off tests, monitoring runs 24\/7 on a fixed cadence from multiple global locations.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tChoose your protocol or tool\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h2 id='pick-the-api-surface-you-need-to-monitor'  id=\"boomdevs_3\">Pick the API Surface You Need to Monitor<\/h2>\n<p>Each protocol has its own deep-dive page with setup guides, code samples, and use cases. Or just start a trial and we\u2019ll auto-detect what you\u2019re running.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tREST\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMost common\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id='rest-api-monitoring'  id=\"boomdevs_4\">REST API Monitoring<\/h3>\n<p>JSON validation, schema assertions, multi-step chaining, OAuth\/JWT. The workhorse spoke for any team running HTTP REST APIs.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\/products\/api-monitoring\/rest-api-monitoring\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExplore REST monitoring<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tSOAP\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEnterprise &amp; legacy\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id='soap-api-monitoring'  id=\"boomdevs_5\">SOAP API Monitoring<\/h3>\n<p>WSDL import, XPath validation, SOAP 1.1\/1.2 support, WS-Security. Built for enterprise, financial, and healthcare APIs.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\/products\/api-monitoring\/soap-api-monitoring\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExplore SOAP monitoring<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tGQL\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tModern\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id='graphql-api-monitoring'  id=\"boomdevs_6\">GraphQL API Monitoring<\/h3>\n<p>Query-aware monitoring. Inspects the <code>errors<\/code> array and response data, since GraphQL returns 200 even on failure.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\/products\/api-monitoring\/graphql-api-monitoring\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExplore GraphQL monitoring<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tPOSTMAN\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tImport collections\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id='postman-collection-monitoring'  id=\"boomdevs_7\">Postman Collection Monitoring<\/h3>\n<p>\t\tImport Postman Collection v2.0\/v2.1 JSON directly. Turn the API tests your team already maintains into 24\/7 production monitors.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\/products\/api-monitoring\/postman-api-monitoring\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExplore Postman monitoring<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tINSOMNIA\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tImport collections\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id='insomnia-collection-monitoring'  id=\"boomdevs_8\">Insomnia Collection Monitoring<\/h3>\n<p>Import Insomnia v4 exports with full request details, environment variables, and auth configs preserved.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\/products\/api-monitoring\/insomnia-api-monitoring\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExplore Insomnia monitoring<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Looking for OAuth, JWT, mTLS, or other auth schemes? Every protocol above supports them \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/features\/oauth-api-monitoring\/\">see the full auth matrix \u00a0\u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p>External references: learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Representational_state_transfer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">REST<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SOAP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SOAP<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GraphQL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GraphQL<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/API\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">API<\/a> pattern itself.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tWhy teams pick us\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h2 id='api-monitoring-built-for-engineers-who-answer-pages'  id=\"boomdevs_9\">API Monitoring Built for Engineers Who Answer Pages<\/h2>\n<p>Six things teams tell us they couldn\u2019t do as cleanly with Datadog, Pingdom, Uptrends, or Postman Monitors.<\/p>\n<h3 id='30+-global-locations'  id=\"boomdevs_10\">30+ Global Locations<\/h3>\n<p>Run distributed checks from North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South America. Catch the regional CDN issue, the DNS propagation gap, the geo-routing fault.<\/p>\n<h3 id='99-99-uptime-sla'  id=\"boomdevs_11\">99.99% Uptime Sla<\/h3>\n<p>Contractual uptime backed by 25+ years of monitoring infrastructure. Your monitoring tool itself never becomes the single point of failure.<\/p>\n<h3 id='multi-step-transactions'  id=\"boomdevs_12\">Multi-Step Transactions<\/h3>\n<p>Chain login \u2192 fetch \u2192 mutate \u2192 confirm into one monitor. Pass tokens between steps, abort on first error, capture step-level logs.<\/p>\n<h3 id='native-pagerduty-slack-teams'  id=\"boomdevs_13\">Native PagerDuty, Slack, Teams<\/h3>\n<p>Route alerts directly into your incident tools \u2014 with diagnostic context, response payloads, and trace IDs in the first notification.<\/p>\n<h3 id='private-agents-behind-firewall'  id=\"boomdevs_14\">Private Agents (Behind Firewall)<\/h3>\n<p>Drop a lightweight agent inside your VPC to monitor internal microservices. Outbound connection only \u2014 no inbound firewall rules.<\/p>\n<h3 id='ci-cd-monitors-as-code'  id=\"boomdevs_15\">CI\/CD &amp; Monitors-As-Code<\/h3>\n<p>Trigger monitor runs from GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps. Gate releases on assertion results, latency, or availability.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tMulti-step monitoring\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h2 id='validate-real-workflows-not-just-isolated-endpoints'  id=\"boomdevs_16\">Validate Real Workflows, Not Just Isolated Endpoints<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0A working \/health check doesn\u2019t prove your business logic still works. Chain real sequences \u2014 auth \u2192 fetch \u2192 mutate \u2192 verify \u2014 and validate every step. The moment the chain breaks, you know exactly where, why, and what the response looked like.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong>Pass variables between calls<\/strong> \u2014 tokens, IDs, and dynamic values flow automatically.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong>Per-step assertions<\/strong> \u2014 status, headers, schema, payload contents on each request.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong>Abort on first error<\/strong> \u2014 full per-step request\/response logs captured.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong>Works across protocols<\/strong> \u2014 REST, SOAP, GraphQL, mixed chains.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\/products\/api-monitoring\/rest-api-monitoring\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSee multi-step in action on REST<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1148\" height=\"732\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/multi-step-monitoring.webp\" alt=\"Multi-step API monitoring view showing a four-call checkout flow where the final status check fails with a 503 timeout.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/multi-step-monitoring.webp 1148w, https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/multi-step-monitoring-300x191.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/multi-step-monitoring-1024x653.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/multi-step-monitoring-768x490.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/multi-step-monitoring-157x100.webp 157w, https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/multi-step-monitoring-125x80.webp 125w, https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/multi-step-monitoring-394x251.webp 394w, https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/multi-step-monitoring-915x583.webp 915w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1148px) 100vw, 1148px\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1160\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/authentication.webp\" alt=\"Secure Vault panel showing OAuth client credentials for API monitoring with the client_secret masked and marked as vaulted.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/authentication.webp 1160w, https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/authentication-300x172.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/authentication-1024x588.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/authentication-768x441.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/authentication-174x100.webp 174w, https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/authentication-139x80.webp 139w, https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/authentication-394x226.webp 394w, https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/authentication-915x525.webp 915w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1160px) 100vw, 1160px\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tAuthentication\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h2 id='every-auth-scheme-your-apis-actually-use'  id=\"boomdevs_17\">Every Auth Scheme Your APIs Actually Use<\/h2>\n<p>Production APIs don\u2019t live behind one auth method. Dotcom-Monitor natively supports the full spread \u2014 and masks every secret in Secure Vault, so credentials never leak into logs or exported scripts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong>OAuth 2.0<\/strong> \u2014 Client Credentials, Authorization Code, Refresh Token flows.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong>JWT<\/strong> with automatic refresh, plus API Key, Basic, and Bearer Token.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong>Enterprise:<\/strong> NTLM, Kerberos, mTLS (Client Certificate), AWS Signature v4.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong>Custom headers<\/strong> for any proprietary auth scheme.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\/features\/oauth-api-monitoring\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSee all supported auth methods<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tGlobal monitoring network\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h2 id='checks-that-run-where-your-users-live'  id=\"boomdevs_18\">Checks That Run Where Your Users Live<\/h2>\n<p>Dotcom-Monitor operates its own monitoring infrastructure across 30+ locations on six continents \u2014 plus Private Agents you can deploy inside your VPC, behind firewalls, or on-prem to monitor internal microservices.<\/p>\n<p>That means you catch the regional outage, the DNS propagation gap, the CDN misroute \u2014 not just the global ones.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t30+\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Global locations<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t6\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Continents covered<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1 min\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Minimum check interval<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPrivate Agents\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>For behind-firewall<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/coverage-grid.svg\" alt=\"Abstract world map showing Dotcom-Monitor&apos;s global API monitoring checkpoints scattered across six continents.\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tGetting started\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h2 id='from-signup-to-first-alert-in-under-five-minutes'  id=\"boomdevs_19\">From Signup to First Alert in Under Five Minutes<\/h2>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t1\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h3 id='define-endpoints-assertions'  id=\"boomdevs_20\">Define Endpoints &amp; Assertions<\/h3>\n<p>Configure REST, SOAP, or GraphQL endpoints, headers, JSONPath\/XPath assertions, and auth. Or import a Postman or Insomnia collection directly.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t2\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h3 id='schedule-synthetic-checks'  id=\"boomdevs_21\">Schedule Synthetic Checks<\/h3>\n<p>Run checks at 1-, 3-, 5-, or 15-minute intervals from 30+ global locations across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South America.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t3\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h3 id='track-uptime-performance'  id=\"boomdevs_22\">Track Uptime &amp; Performance<\/h3>\n<p>Track availability %, P95\/P99 response times, TTFB, DNS time, and error rates by HTTP status code across every monitored endpoint.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t4\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h3 id='receive-real-time-alerts'  id=\"boomdevs_23\">Receive Real-Time Alerts<\/h3>\n<p>Get alerted via email, SMS, Slack, PagerDuty, or Teams within seconds \u2014 with response time, status code, and validation failures attached.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tWhy it matters\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h2 id='the-hidden-cost-of-api-downtime'  id=\"boomdevs_24\">The Hidden Cost of API Downtime<\/h2>\n<p>APIs power payments, authentication, inventory, financial transactions, and SaaS integrations. When they fail \u2014 even briefly \u2014 the impact is immediate.<\/p>\n<h3 id='mttr-impact'  id=\"boomdevs_25\">Mttr Impact<\/h3>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tMean Time to Resolution\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Without proactive monitoring, teams rely on customer reports to detect failures \u2014 adding 30\u201360 minutes to detection alone. Continuous synthetic monitoring shortens detection to under 60 seconds, enabling faster root-cause isolation.<\/p>\n<h3 id='sla-compliance-exposure'  id=\"boomdevs_26\">Sla &amp; Compliance Exposure<\/h3>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tContractual &amp; regulatory risk\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>For B2B SaaS, FinTech, and healthcare, API downtime triggers SLA penalties, compliance violations, and audit findings. Documented uptime evidence is what defends SLA adherence in renewal conversations.<\/p>\n<h3 id='revenue-per-minute-exposure'  id=\"boomdevs_27\">Revenue-Per-Minute Exposure<\/h3>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tDirect financial impact\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>An e-commerce platform processing 100 orders\/min at $50\/order loses $25,000 per 5-minute outage. A failed checkout, payment authorization, or auth call halts conversion immediately.<\/p>\n<h3 id='third-party-api-blind-spots'  id=\"boomdevs_28\">Third-Party API Blind Spots<\/h3>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tVendor accountability\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Modern apps depend on Stripe, Auth0, Okta, Twilio. Even when your infrastructure is healthy, a degraded upstream can break checkout, login, and data sync. 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aria-label=\"SAAS Providers\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 id='saas-providers'  id=\"boomdevs_37\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\/solutions\/saas-monitoring\/\" ><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSAAS Providers\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>Monitor internal and third-party API dependencies to keep integrations returning correct data on time. Detect partner-API degradation before it cascades.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\/solutions\/retail-and-ecommerce-monitoring\/\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"E-commerce\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 id='e-commerce'  id=\"boomdevs_38\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\/solutions\/retail-and-ecommerce-monitoring\/\" ><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tE-commerce\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>Track payment gateways (Stripe, PayPal), inventory systems, and shipping endpoints. A 5-min outage at checkout can cost tens of thousands during peak.<\/p>\n<h3 id='fintech'  id=\"boomdevs_39\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFinTech<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>Ensure financial APIs meet regulatory security and sub-second latency. Monitor transaction processing, KYC, and banking integrations to avoid failed transactions.<\/p>\n<h3 id='healthcare'  id=\"boomdevs_40\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHealthcare<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>Monitor EHR APIs, insurance portals, and telemedicine platforms. Keep HIPAA-compliant data exchange endpoints available and responsive.<\/p>\n<h3 id='enterprise-it'  id=\"boomdevs_41\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEnterprise IT<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>Validate cross-department API integrations \u2014 CRM, ERP, HR, communications. Detect cross-system failures before they disrupt internal workflows.<\/p>\n<h3 id='media-broadcast'  id=\"boomdevs_42\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMedia &amp; Broadcast<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>Monitor content delivery APIs, streaming endpoints, and rights-management services. Validate that downstream consumers see correct data globally.<\/p>\n<h2 id='api-monitoring-features'  id=\"boomdevs_43\">API Monitoring Features<\/h2>\n<p>Seven things every team running production APIs should do \u2014 independent of which tool they pick.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t01\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h3 id='monitor-from-multiple-geographic-locations'  id=\"boomdevs_44\">Monitor From Multiple Geographic Locations<\/h3>\n<p>A single location can\u2019t detect regional DNS failures, CDN misconfigurations, or geo-routing issues. Use at least 5 distributed locations.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t02\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h3 id='validate-payloads-not-just-status-codes'  id=\"boomdevs_45\">Validate Payloads \u2014 Not Just Status Codes<\/h3>\n<p>An HTTP 200 doesn\u2019t guarantee correctness. Use JSONPath or XPath assertions to verify response bodies have the expected structure and content.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t03\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h3 id='set-baseline-derived-alert-thresholds'  id=\"boomdevs_46\">Set Baseline-Derived Alert Thresholds<\/h3>\n<p>Static thresholds trigger false positives. Establish per-endpoint baselines, then alert at 2\u00d7 the P95 response time.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t04\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h3 id='monitor-authentication-flows-end-to-end'  id=\"boomdevs_47\">Monitor Authentication Flows End-To-End<\/h3>\n<p>Token expiration, OAuth refresh failures, and cert rotation are common causes of outages. Include auth steps so credential issues get caught early.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t05\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h3 id='test-multi-step-transactions'  id=\"boomdevs_48\">Test Multi-Step Transactions<\/h3>\n<p>A single endpoint may pass while the full transaction fails. Multi-step monitors catch session, sequencing, and data-dependency failures.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t06\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h3 id='monitor-third-party-dependencies-separately'  id=\"boomdevs_49\">Monitor Third-Party Dependencies Separately<\/h3>\n<p>Payment gateways, identity providers, and shipping APIs degrade independently. Dedicated monitors isolate whether failures are internal or external.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t07\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h3 id='include-api-monitoring-in-ci-cd'  id=\"boomdevs_50\">Include API Monitoring in CI\/CD<\/h3>\n<p>Run post-deploy synthetic checks. Automated smoke tests catch schema changes, missing fields, and regressions before they reach users.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tFrequently asked questions\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h2 id='answers-devops-teams-want-before-they-sign-up'  id=\"boomdevs_51\">Answers DevOps Teams Want Before They Sign Up<\/h2>\n<h3 id='what-is-api-monitoring-1'  id=\"boomdevs_52\" id=\"elementor-tab-title-1531\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1531\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\">What is API monitoring?<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>API monitoring is the continuous, automated practice of validating API endpoints for availability, response time, and data correctness from outside your infrastructure. Unlike one-off tests, monitoring runs 24\/7 from multiple global locations on a fixed cadence \u2014 and alerts you the second any of those break.<\/p>\n<h3 id='what-types-of-apis-can-dotcom-monitor-monitor'  id=\"boomdevs_53\" id=\"elementor-tab-title-1532\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1532\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\">What types of APIs can Dotcom-Monitor monitor?<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>REST, SOAP, GraphQL, and any HTTP\/S API. Dotcom-Monitor also imports <a href=\"\/products\/api-monitoring\/postman-api-monitoring\/\">Postman<\/a> and <a href=\"\/products\/api-monitoring\/insomnia-api-monitoring\/\">Insomnia<\/a> collections directly, turning existing API tests into continuous production monitors.<\/p>\n<h3 id='what-authentication-methods-are-supported'  id=\"boomdevs_54\" id=\"elementor-tab-title-1533\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1533\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\">What authentication methods are supported?<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>API Key, Basic Auth, OAuth 2.0 (Client Credentials, Authorization Code, Refresh Token), JWT with automatic refresh, Bearer Token, AWS Signature v4, NTLM, Kerberos, mTLS, and custom headers. Secrets are masked through the <a href=\"\/features\/oauth-api-monitoring\/\">Secure Vault<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 id='can-i-chain-multiple-api-calls-into-a-single-monitor'  id=\"boomdevs_55\" id=\"elementor-tab-title-1534\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1534\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\">Can I chain multiple API calls into a single monitor?<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>Yes. Multi-step monitors pass tokens, IDs, and dynamic values between steps, validate each step independently, and abort the chain at the first failure with full per-step request\/response logs.<\/p>\n<h3 id='can-i-monitor-apis-behind-a-firewall'  id=\"boomdevs_56\" id=\"elementor-tab-title-1535\" data-tab=\"5\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1535\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\">Can I monitor APIs behind a firewall?<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>Yes. Deploy lightweight <a href=\"\/features\/private-agents\/\">Private Agents<\/a> inside your network \u2014 they initiate outbound connections, so no inbound firewall rules are required.<\/p>\n<h3 id='how-is-this-different-from-uptime-only-monitoring'  id=\"boomdevs_57\" id=\"elementor-tab-title-1536\" data-tab=\"6\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1536\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\">How is this different from uptime-only monitoring?<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>Uptime tools mark you green when a 200 comes back. We validate the actual response \u2014 JSON schema, headers, payload contents, latency percentiles, downstream chain success \u2014 so partial failures (the 200-but-broken kind) get caught.<\/p>\n<h3 id='how-does-api-monitoring-differ-from-apm'  id=\"boomdevs_58\" id=\"elementor-tab-title-1537\" data-tab=\"7\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1537\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\">How does API monitoring differ from APM?<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>API monitoring tests from outside (the user&#8217;s perspective). APM tracks internal behavior \u2014 code, database, server. Mature teams run both: synthetic for customer-facing checks, APM for root-cause debugging.<\/p>\n<h3 id='can-i-integrate-api-monitoring-into-a-ci-cd-pipeline'  id=\"boomdevs_59\" id=\"elementor-tab-title-1538\" data-tab=\"8\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1538\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\">Can I integrate API monitoring into a CI\/CD pipeline?<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>Yes. Trigger monitor runs via API from GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps. Gate the deploy on availability, latency, or assertion results to stop bad builds from reaching production.<\/p>\n<h3 id='how-often-can-checks-run'  id=\"boomdevs_60\" id=\"elementor-tab-title-1539\" data-tab=\"9\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1539\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\">How often can checks run?<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>As often as every minute per endpoint. We recommend 1-minute intervals for critical paths (login, checkout, payment) and 5- or 15-minute intervals for lower-priority endpoints.<\/p>\n<h3 id='what-metrics-matter-most'  id=\"boomdevs_61\" id=\"elementor-tab-title-15310\" data-tab=\"10\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-15310\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\">What metrics matter most?<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>Availability % (target 99.9%+), response time (P95\/P99), error rate (4xx + 5xx), TTFB, DNS resolution time, SSL handshake time, and throughput. Plus payload validation \u2014 the metric uptime tools miss entirely.<\/p>\n<h3 id='how-often-should-i-monitor-a-production-api'  id=\"boomdevs_62\" id=\"elementor-tab-title-15311\" data-tab=\"11\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-15311\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\">How often should I monitor a production API?<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>For revenue-impacting APIs (login, payment, checkout), every minute. For less critical endpoints, every 5 or 15 minutes is fine. The right cadence balances detection time against check-volume cost.<\/p>\n<h3 id='what-is-the-difference-between-api-monitoring-and-api-testing'  id=\"boomdevs_63\" id=\"elementor-tab-title-15312\" data-tab=\"12\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-15312\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\">What is the difference between API monitoring and API testing?<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>Testing happens in development and CI to verify endpoints behave correctly before release. Monitoring runs continuously in production, tracking real-world availability, latency, and response accuracy over time. Testing catches bugs before deploy; monitoring catches failures, regressions, and degradation after deploy.<\/p>\n<h3 id='does-api-monitoring-replace-apm'  id=\"boomdevs_64\" id=\"elementor-tab-title-15313\" data-tab=\"13\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-15313\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\">Does API monitoring replace APM?<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>No. API monitoring tests from outside (the user perspective). APM tracks internal behavior \u2014 code execution, database queries, server resources. Mature teams run both: synthetic for customer-facing checks, APM for root-cause debugging.<\/p>\n<h3 id='what-is-ttfb-and-why-does-it-matter-for-apis'  id=\"boomdevs_65\" id=\"elementor-tab-title-15314\" data-tab=\"14\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-15314\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\">What is TTFB and why does it matter for APIs?<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>Time to First Byte measures the elapsed time from sending a request to receiving the first byte of response. From a synthetic client this includes DNS, TCP, TLS, and server processing \u2014 but not the time to transfer the body. High response time with low TTFB points to a large payload; high TTFB points to slow server processing.<\/p>\n<h3 id='how-many-monitoring-locations-do-i-need'  id=\"boomdevs_66\" id=\"elementor-tab-title-15315\" data-tab=\"15\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-15315\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\">How many monitoring locations do I need?<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>For global apps, at least 5 distributed locations covering your primary user regions. Typical baseline: North America East, North America West, Western Europe, Asia-Pacific, South America. This catches regional CDN issues, DNS propagation gaps, and geo-routing anomalies that single-location monitoring misses entirely.<\/p>\n<h2 id='catch-the-next-api-outage-before-your-users-do'  id=\"boomdevs_67\">Catch the Next API Outage Before Your Users Do<\/h2>\n<p>30-day free trial. No credit card. Full platform access. 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