Use the comparison tool below to compare the top API Monitoring tools on the market. You can filter results by user reviews, pricing, features, platform, region, support options, integrations, and more.
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Site24x7 provides unified cloud monitoring to support IT operations and DevOps within small and large organizations. The solution monitors real users' experiences on websites and apps from both desktop and mobile devices. DevOps teams can monitor and troubleshoot applications and servers, as well as network infrastructure, including private clouds and public clouds, with in-depth monitoring capabilities. Monitoring the end-user experience is done from more 100 locations around the globe and via various wireless carriers.
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KrakenD
55 RatingsEngineered for peak performance and efficient resource use, KrakenD can manage a staggering 70k requests per second on just one instance. Its stateless build ensures hassle-free scalability, sidelining complications like database upkeep or node synchronization. In terms of features, KrakenD is a jack-of-all-trades. It accommodates multiple protocols and API standards, offering granular access control, data shaping, and caching capabilities. A standout feature is its Backend For Frontend pattern, which consolidates various API calls into a single response, simplifying client interactions. On the security front, KrakenD is OWASP-compliant and data-agnostic, streamlining regulatory adherence. Operational ease comes via its declarative setup and robust third-party tool integration. With its open-source community edition and transparent pricing model, KrakenD is the go-to API Gateway for organizations that refuse to compromise on performance or scalability. -
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Uptrends is all about cloud-based website performance that keeps track of performance, uptime, and functionality of your websites and APIs. The 24/7 monitoring service that proactively test your website and monitor multi-step transactions. Let’s face it—the Internet is a fragile thing. Stuff breaks or slows every now and then. Uptrends lets you know when it does and what exactly happened. Feel free to try Uptrends for 30 days with our free trial!
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IBM Instana
IBM
$75 per month 1 RatingIBM®, Instana®, is the gold-standard of incident prevention. It offers automated full-stack transparency, 1-second granularity, and 3-second notification. In today's highly complex and dynamic cloud environments, an hour of downtime could cost you six figures or more. Traditional application performance monitoring tools (APMs) are not fast enough to keep pace or comprehensive enough to contextualize issues identified. They are also typically only available to super users, who must undergo months of training. IBM Instana Observability is a solution that goes beyond traditional APM by democratizing observability. Anyone in DevOps or SRE, Platform Engineering, ITOps, and Development can access the data they need with the context needed. Instana delivers high-fidelity data with a 1-second granularity, and end-toend traces, as well as the context of logical, physical, and mobile dependencies, across applications, web, and infrastructure. -
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Sematext Cloud
Sematext Group
$0 62 RatingsSematext Cloud provides all-in-one observability solutions for modern software-based businesses. It provides key insights into both front-end and back-end performance. Sematext includes infrastructure, synthetic monitoring, transaction tracking, log management, and real user & synthetic monitoring. Sematext provides full-stack visibility for businesses by quickly and easily exposing key performance issues through a single Cloud solution or On-Premise. -
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Better Stack
Better Stack
$24 per month 7 RatingsBetter Stack allows you to see inside any stack and debug any issue. Visualize the entire stack. Aggregate all your logs to structured data and query it like a database using SQL. Search, store and centralize your logs in a flash. Do not worry about archiving and rehydration. Dashboards that combine metrics from multiple sources to create a beautiful summary. Monitor everything, from websites to servers. Schedule on-call rotatings, get actionable notifications, and resolve incidents quicker than ever. Be notified by a platform that monitors infrastructures better. Our 30-second check will give you a screenshot and a second by second timeline of the error. We verify each HTTP and ping-based event from at least three locations before we alert. No more false alarms! We have you covered, whether it's monitoring your web page, APIs, pings, POP3, SMTP, IMAP, DNS, or general network monitoring. -
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Datadog is the cloud-age monitoring, security, and analytics platform for developers, IT operation teams, security engineers, and business users. Our SaaS platform integrates monitoring of infrastructure, application performance monitoring, and log management to provide unified and real-time monitoring of all our customers' technology stacks. Datadog is used by companies of all sizes and in many industries to enable digital transformation, cloud migration, collaboration among development, operations and security teams, accelerate time-to-market for applications, reduce the time it takes to solve problems, secure applications and infrastructure and understand user behavior to track key business metrics.
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Postman
Postman
$12 per user per month 25 RatingsCollaboration platform for API development. You can simplify each step of building an app and streamline collaboration to create better APIs faster. Postman is an API development platform that allows you to collaborate with other users. Postman's features make it easier to build an API. They also streamline collaboration, so you can create better APIs faster. Postman allows you to quickly and easily send SOAP, REST, and GraphQL queries directly from Postman. Automate manual testing and integrate them into your CD/CI pipeline to ensure that no code changes will cause API problems in production. Simulating endpoints and the responses of APIs without needing to set up a backend server allows you to communicate the expected behavior. To make your API easier to use, generate and publish beautiful, machine-readable documentation. Keep track of the health of your API's performance and response times at regular intervals to keep you informed. Collaborate in real-time by creating a shared environment for API building and consumption. -
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AppDynamics
Cisco
$6 per month 1 RatingWe help you solve your most pressing business problems with simple, flexible and scalable packages that will make your digital transformation a reality. Get started today with our top business observability platform. AppDynamics or Cisco business lenses provide full-stack visibility. Prioritize the most important things for your business and your employees so that you can share, see and take action in real-time. With a deeper understanding and appreciation of user behavior and applications, you can turn performance into profit. You can quickly fix issues before they affect your bottom line by integrating full stack performance with key business metrics, such as conversions. -
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Sauce Labs
Sauce Labs
$19 per user per month 1 RatingSauce Labs is the largest continuous testing cloud in the world for web and mobile apps. This gives development teams from the top digital brands the ability to deliver apps faster, without compromising on quality. With extensive device and testing coverage, streamlined beta distribution, best-in class error monitoring, and constant feedback loops during your app development cycle, you can release better mobile apps faster. Your mobile apps will always work in real-world scenarios on any device and browser. Sauce Labs' end-to-end solutions for mobile quality enable organizations to deliver mobile apps in a modern era of DevOps driven development. They can achieve quality and speed at all stages of app development - from conception to production. We have you covered, no matter what your testing needs are, the application type you're developing, or your role within the mobile SDLC. -
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Dotcom-Monitor
Dotcom-Monitor
$19.99/month Website monitoring and performance testing solutions. You can quickly identify performance issues by using powerful monitoring features like real-time dashboards, performance reporting options, or nearly 30 global monitoring networks. The EveryStep Web Recorder allows you to quickly and easily record scripts that can be used to monitor interactive websites, web application elements, and user scenarios. Dotcom-Monitor makes sure that even the most complex websites, web apps, and web services are up to date and perform as intended. -
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Assertible
Assertible
$25 per monthThis is the easiest way to monitor and test your web services. Assertible's automated QA tools will help you test and monitor your web service across different environments and deployments. This will give you confidence in your critical infrastructure. Assertible is your first line of defense against any web service failures. It provides simple and powerful assertions that allow you to monitor and test your APIs and websites. Reduce false positives in automated QA tests to ensure that your APIs are safe and healthy. Assertible makes it easy to keep your API tests current. As you add or update responses, parameters, headers and other information, updating your Assertible API test is as simple as clicking sync. -
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SolarWinds Loggly
SolarWinds
FreeSolarWinds®, Loggly®, is a cost-effective, hosted and scalable multi-source log management system that combines powerful search and analytics with extensive alerting, dashboarding and reporting to help you identify potential problems and reduce Mean Time to Fix (MTTR). LOGGLY AT A GLANCE >> Full-stack log aggregation, log monitoring and data analytics Log analytics provides context and patterns for events, as well as anomalies that can be used to gain deeper insights. >> Highly scalable to ingest large data volumes and enable quick searching across large and complicated environments >> Spot usage patterns with application, service, and infrastructure-aligned historical analysis of user, log, and infrastructure data >> Manage by exception: Identify variations from the norm with powerful log formatting capabilities and analytic search capabilities -
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API Science
API Science
$29 per monthAPIs are more than plumbing. They are critical to your business, your apps and your reputation. You need to ensure they are always working and performing as expected. Customers shouldn't be able to call you to complain about your API being down. Slow or unreliable APIs shouldn't cause bad app reviews. APIs were not the core of modern applications when traditional monitoring services were created. API Science is specifically designed for monitoring APIs. Sure, we understand REST, JSON, OAuth, XML. No problem. You can monitor how developers and apps use your APIs with our global monitoring network. You can set up API monitors using your own tests. Your APIs are then called from anywhere in the world. We'll notify you immediately if anything goes wrong. You can quickly identify errors, outages, and performance issues. Troubleshooting is faster and easier. -
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SigNoz
SigNoz
$199 per monthSigNoz can be used as an open-source alternative to Datadog or New Relic. A single tool that can handle all your observability requirements, including APM, logs and metrics, exceptions and alerts, dashboards, and dashboards. You don't have to manage multiple tools. You can use the powerful query builder and great charts that come with the software to dig deeper into data. By using an open-source standard, you are not locked into a vendor. OpenTelemetry's auto-instrumentation libraries can help you get started quickly and with minimal code changes. OpenTelemetry provides a single-stop solution to all your telemetry requirements. A single standard for telemetry signals increases developer productivity and consistency within teams. Write queries for all telemetry signals. Apply filters and formulas and run aggregates to gain deeper insights. SigNoz uses ClickHouse, a fast open source distributed columnar database. Ingestion and aggregates are lightning fast. -
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Testfully
Testfully
$49 per monthTestfully has it all, from powerful API client features to advanced monitoring and testing. Enjoy the flexibility of cloud-based and offline-only storage. The seamless team collaboration and easy migration are all available in one multiplatform tool. Transfer your data directly from Postman or Insomnia into Testfully. Set global, folder, and environment variables that are scoped by workspace or user. Create any HTTP request by customizing auth, parameters and headers. Add teams, assign roles and control folder access. Supports major schemes such as OAuth2 to streamline and secure authorization. Testfully allows for quick and effective testing, without the need to code. Advanced API testing is now accessible and hassle-free. With just one click, execute all requests in a directory simultaneously, sequentially or randomly. Validate responses and conduct contract testing using a declarative form. No coding is required. -
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Runscope
Runscope
An API Monitoring (Runscope API test) is a series of HTTP requests executed in a sequential order to evaluate the correctness, uptime, and performance of an API. You can define Assertions for each step of the test to validate response data, and Variables that will extract data for subsequent requests. If all assertions pass, the test is considered passed. If any assertion fails or another error occurs, the test is deemed to be failing. Customers shouldn't be telling you about downtime or breakages. Runscope supports all the notification tools you use, including PagerDuty and HipChat, Slack, HipChat email, webhooks, and more. Monitor service performance to quickly detect and fix API problems. With the API Dashboard, you can stay ahead of intermittent failures so they don't become major problems. Verify that your API calls are structured and contain the information you expect. Flexible assertions that are powerful and easy to use give you complete control. -
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AlertSite
SmartBear
AlertSite is the Early Warning System' that you can trust to monitor all your websites, web apps, APIs, and private networks. Fear and consequences of false or real alerts shouldn't burden you. AlertSite monitors your API layer and UI for availability, performance, functionality, and other alerts without the alert fatigue that can be caused by other monitoring tools. AlertSite makes it easy to create Web and API monitors. DejaClick allows you to create new web monitors and API monitors in code. It is easy to use an API Endpoint URL file or OpenAPI Specification files to codelessly add web monitors. Reuse Selenium Scripts and SoapUI test cases to create new monitors. False alerts and incorrect data shouldn't obscure your application health visibility. -
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Rigor Digital Experience Monitor combines the power and intelligence of synthetic monitoring with an optimization engine to help you identify, fix, and prevent website performance issues and user experience problems.
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APImetrics
APImetrics
Developers, consumers, providers, regulators, and regulators can access real-time, independent API monitoring in real time. Other tools and systems miss 70% of API problems. Real, outside-in calls from any location in the world. Continuous assurance that your APIs remain secure. Check out how services perform easily. Get real-time alerts and meaningful reports when things go wrong. Solve 3rd party disputes quickly. Be able to quickly prove your compliance to regulators and meet their needs. Metrics and analysis that are meaningful. Easy reporting and actionable service level agreements. All REST and SOAP APIs can be monitored with customized API monitoring. Cross-cloud integration support. API security standards, including JSON signing. Complete compliance with security standards Integration via webhook with common DevOps tools and CI/CD tools. Complete coverage and assurance -
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Integration Eye
Integsoft
Integration Eye®, a modular product, streamlines system integrations, infrastructure and business. It is composed of three modules: the proxy module IPM and ILM logging modules ILM. The security module ISM can also be used separately or together. It is built on the secure, platform-independent Java language. Why choose Java? It runs on the Mule™ lightweight integration engine. You can monitor your APIs, systems, log calls, analyze them (logging with ILM module), and get alerted if there are any issues, downtime, slow responses to specific APIs or systems. You can secure your APIs using roles (authorizations and authentication with ISM module) based either on Keycloak SSO that we provide or your existing Auth server. You can extend and proxy service calls (both external and internal) using mutual SSL, headers, and other methods. These calls can be monitored and analysed via proxy with IPM.
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API Monitoring Tools Overview
API monitoring tools are used to observe and track the performance of software applications. They monitor the behavior of an API, a set of code written by developers and utilized by other tools to interact with their data. API monitoring tools measure the time it takes for an API request to process, check its availability, and report any errors or latency issues that may appear during execution. These tools also provide statistical analysis on how well your APIs are performing under different load conditions while allowing you to stay in control over how much traffic is being sent from each user device.
API monitoring tools can be used to detect any bottlenecks in the system. By tracking real-time user requests, error messages, response times, latency factors, and more, these tools can identify problem areas in your application quickly and accurately. This allows developers to make necessary changes that will improve performance levels before they become too extreme or noticeable by users.
The benefits of using API monitoring tools include being able to collect usage data on all requests made to your APIs; greater visibility into errors or anomalies; knowing when your system is going slow or unstable; and solving problems related to authentication methods or security protocols. Additionally, this type of tool gives users predictive analytics regarding future use cases so they can anticipate demand surges accordingly and fine-tune their systems accordingly.
It's important for developers who build web applications utilizing APIs to regularly implement quality assurance tests as part of their ongoing development cycles. Not only does this make sure applications remain stable across different devices but it also affords teams insight into potential problems such as network latency or server outages that could potentially impact customer experience negatively.
To further understand the performance characteristics of an API implementation over a long period of time it’s necessary for developers to employ some form of continuous API monitoring solution which provides insights about availability levels as well as detecting unexpected behaviors throughout its lifecycle deployment stages — something manual testing without automation cannot deliver adequately nor consistently over extended periods of time due at least partially because manual testing requires exhausting human resources costs associated with executing them regularly over a longer timeline.
Ultimately, API monitoring tools are essential in today’s world — allowing teams to understand the status of their APIs and take proactive measures to improve performance, increase uptime, and stay ahead of the competition.
What Are Some Reasons To Use API Monitoring Tools?
- Increased performance: API monitoring tools provide real-time analytics that can help optimize the performance of an app or service. By identifying latency issues and problems, developers can adjust their code to reduce wait times and deliver a better user experience.
- Improved reliability: API uptime is essential for businesses that rely on external APIs to remain operational. Monitoring tools can track usage metrics and alert administrators when errors occur, so they can take action quickly to minimize disruption.
- Enhanced security: Many organizations use APIs for sensitive information exchange such as customer data or payment processing details. Monitoring tools can detect suspicious activity like brute force attacks or unauthorized logins, allowing admins to maintain security protocols more easily.
- Easier debugging: When an issue occurs with an external API, it's difficult to pinpoint the exact problem. API monitoring tools generate logs that contain valuable information about the source of the bug and help developers track down the root cause quickly so they can fix it efficiently.
- Reduced costs: API monitoring tools reduce development time by allowing the team to quickly identify and address problems, helping them avoid costly delays. They also help teams save on hosting costs by optimizing the performance of their APIs.
The Importance of API Monitoring Tools
API monitoring tools are an essential part of any software development cycle. APIs allow developers to access and utilize data from multiple sources, streamline processes, and increase the speed at which applications can be delivered. However, without proper monitoring in place developers may not be made aware of API errors or latency issues until after it has caused damage to their applications. API monitoring is critical for ensuring the highest levels of uptime, performance, and availability across a company’s digital solutions.
API monitoring helps identify any potential issues quickly, allowing developers to remediate or roll back changes rapidly before they have a chance to cause serious performance problems or even outages. By detecting errors and changes early on in the process it reduces the amount of time spent debugging on each new release as well as cutting down on customer complaints due to poor user experience related issues such as slow loading times or incomplete functions. Furthermore, being able to monitor your APIs on an ongoing basis gives you detailed insight into how users interact with your application/service which allows you make informed decisions about where improvements need to be made—essential for improving customer satisfaction ratings over the long term.
From an company perspective having detailed API analytics also provides valuable insights that can be used for cost-savings initiatives such as reducing server load times by shifting resources away from areas that customers do not frequently visit or optimising back end operations so they become more efficient with less hardware required. All of these advantages add up over time resulting in improved productivity levels at all stages within the software development lifecycle; saving businesses both money and time over the longer term.
In conclusion, API Monitoring tools are essential for any business that uses APIs as part of their digital solutions or services. They give developers the ability to spot and remediate issues quickly before they can cause serious problems, reduce debugging time during development cycles and give businesses insight into how users interact with their applications—all key factors in ensuring an optimal level of uptime, performance and user experience across all platforms.
Features of API Monitoring Tools
- API Monitoring: API monitoring tools allow organizations to monitor all of their APIs from a central location. This includes both in-house and third-party APIs. These tools can provide detailed information on response times, uptime, error rates, latency, etc., enabling organizations to identify problems quickly and take corrective action.
- Data Analysis: API monitoring tools provide comprehensive data analysis capabilities that enable developers to drill down into the performance of their APIs. This helps them understand how those APIs are behaving under different conditions and find areas for improvement or optimization.
- Automation & Alerts: Most Modern API monitoring tools come with automated alerts, which help keep the team informed about changes in the performance of an API such as downtimes or outages, high load times or errors, etc., so they can act upon it immediately without having to search for it manually.
- Performance Benchmarking & Comparison: A good monitoring tool for APIs will provide you with benchmark metrics that compare your performance against other services or competitors in the same industry space providing valuable insight into your own service operations compared to those of others in your field.
- Customizable Dashboard & Reports: Many API monitoring tools have customizable dashboards that display relevant key performance indicators (KPIs) like response time and availability rate at a glance along with customised reports tailored exactly according to user requirements helping them spot trends quickly and accurately assess their service’s performance over time. The reports automatically generated by these tools offer an easy way to share performance data with stakeholders or management teams.
- Version Control & Security: API monitoring tools can also be used to track the different versions of your APIs to ensure they are secure and up-to-date, and trigger alerts when potential security risks or versioning issues occur. This avoids having outdated APIs, which may have vulnerabilities that hackers can exploit.
Types of Users That Can Benefit From API Monitoring Tools
- Developers: API monitoring tools allow developers to quickly detect errors and bugs in their APIs, ensuring that they remain bug-free and functioning properly.
- Network Administrators: With an API monitoring tool, network administrators can be made aware of any issues related to performance or uptime, allowing them to make quick corrections and ensure the smooth operation of their networks.
- Website Owners: Web site owners are able to ensure that their webpages are loading quickly and correctly by using an API monitoring tool. This helps make sure visitors have a good experience when visiting their sites.
- Software Engineers: With an API monitoring tool, software engineers can conduct tests on newly developed APIs to see if they work the way they should before releasing them publicly. This allows for more comprehensive testing that can be done in a shorter time span than with manual methods.
- IT Professionals: IT professionals benefit from using API monitoring tools because it allows them to quickly identify problems with existing systems or applications which could lead to costly downtimes or data losses if left unchecked.
- Businesses: By using an API monitoring tool businesses can keep track of how well their applications are performing and react accordingly in order to maintain customer satisfaction and meet project requirements on time.
- Cloud Service Providers: API monitoring tools can be used to monitor the performance of cloud applications and services, ensuring that they are meeting customer expectations. This allows providers to identify potential issues quickly and efficiently.
How Much Do API Monitoring Tools Cost?
The cost of API monitoring tools can vary significantly depending on your requirements and the features you need. Generally speaking, basic API monitoring services typically start at around $19/ month for an entry-level plan. From there, plans can range up to $599/month for more comprehensive plans with additional features such as enhanced analytics, greater uptime assurance, and integration with other service providers.
For larger enterprises that require advanced monitors that support high-volume APIs, scalability solutions, and sophisticated data analysis capabilities, the costs may be significantly higher. Depending on your needs, these solutions often begin in the hundreds of dollars per month for setup fees plus a monthly subscription fee. Businesses also need to consider any ongoing or maintenance costs associated with their chosen solution provider.
Ultimately, when deciding how much to invest in API monitoring tools it's important to assess your needs carefully and find a platform that is suitable for both current and long-term goals so you get the best value from your investment.
Risks To Be Aware of Regarding API Monitoring Tools
- API monitoring tools can be vulnerable to attack, allowing malicious actors to gain access to sensitive data.
- Unauthorized access could result in API credentials being stolen and used for malicious purposes.
- Bugs and vulnerabilities can exist within the code of an API monitoring tool that are exploitable by attackers.
- If there is an inadequate security policy in place, these vulnerabilities can be exploited without detection.
- Misconfiguration of the tool or improper implementation could lead to errors and outages which can disrupt services.
- Malicious tampering of the software or hardware components could allow cybercriminals to manipulate and inject malicious code into the system, resulting in a breach.
- Data loss or corruption due to mishandling of APIs, human error, server issues, or other causes is another risk associated with using API monitoring tools.
- Inadequate logging and reporting capabilities make it difficult to identify what went wrong when dealing with potential issues stemming from API usage patterns or behavior changes over time.
- There is a risk of data leakage if third-party APIs are used that are not secure.
- The risk of API abuse or misuse by malicious actors is always present as well.
API Monitoring Tools Integrations
API monitoring tools integrate with various types of software. These include databases, webhooks, cloud storage systems and third-party API services. Databases such as MongoDB or MySQL can be connected to an API monitoring tool to track and analyze data in real-time. Webhooks allow for notifications when a predetermined event occurs, such as when an API call fails, so that the user can be alerted quickly. Cloud storage services like Amazon S3 can be used to back up API data in case of loss or corruption. Lastly, third-party API services may also integrate with API monitoring tools for more comprehensive insights into what the APIs are doing and how they are performing.
What Are Some Questions To Ask When Considering API Monitoring Tools?
- What types of APIs does the tool support?
- Is there an API transaction limit and how is the data captured?
- What security protocols are used for data encryption/decryption and authentication?
- Are there any API alerts or notifications available when performance issues occur?
- Does it provide real-time monitoring with detailed analytics, including application errors, latency, throughput and response times?
- Is integration with other ITSM or DevOps tools possible, such as tracking incidents and tickets from multiple sources?
- How customizable are the dashboards for viewing metrics in detail across all APIs?
- Will it generate custom reports to track performance against SLAs or other quality metrics over time?
- Does the platform offer a sandbox environment to test out API calls safely before production deployment?
- What kind of customer support and training services are provided for any onboarding needs or troubleshooting assistance that may arise during use of this product?