APIContext
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Advanced synthetic API testing & monitoring
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Features
49 features across 10 categories
Alerting(2)
Send alerts via email when issues are detected
Trigger alerts to preferred tools via email or webhook with over a dozen integrations
Analytics(6)
Leverages data from billions of real API calls to spot trends, issues and problems before they impact users
See benchmarks for your API against all types of API calls or similar API calls in your industry
Cloud API Service Consistency measure for quality metrics
Review historical changes for trends and trace code updates to identify root causes
Gain insight into DNS and connection issues with breakdowns of latency and server times
Understand how autonomous services experience your apps in real time, measuring latency, network effects, and quality metrics
Automation(1)
Automated global testing with customization for specific continents, countries, or data centers
Compliance(4)
Complete audit trail of all API results and content returned by APIs
Real-time schema validation and API conformance checking
Define and monitor Service Level Agreements and Service Level Objectives for availability and latency
Validate conformance to OAuth, OAS, FAPI, FDX, FHIR and other standards
Integration(6)
Import API tests from cURL commands
Import API documentation via OpenAPI specification
OpenTelemetry integrations to APM stacks
Sync collections directly from Postman for testing
API access to reporting and monitoring data
Send alerts and notifications via webhooks
Management(2)
Manage and track your API inventory
Schedule one-off or recurring downtimes to avoid false positives
Monitoring(10)
Monitor the distributed compute chain end to end across APIs, browsers, and MCP servers
Monitor APIs inside firewalls with internal agent installation
100+ monitoring nodes across 5 cloud providers (AWS, IBM, Akamai, GCP, Azure) in 100+ global locations for comprehensive coverage
Monitor Model Context Protocol servers
Monitor API sequences that are critical to users, following them step by step through the entire workflow
Monitor REST APIs with full support for all HTTP methods and configurations
Monitor SOAP APIs alongside REST APIs
Continuously test how key journeys behave in the real world across all systems and suppliers
Monitor API uptime with configurable check intervals from 14 distributed regions
Monitor web pages in addition to APIs
Reporting(4)
Create custom dashboards for performance monitoring and API status visualization
Store complete API call results for review and analysis
Create public status pages to communicate API status to users
Automated weekly performance reports via email
Security(6)
Fully integrated security manager for API Keys, OAuth, JWT, JWS, and OIDC authentication
FIPS 140 Hardware Security Module for key storage
Whitelist data center IP addresses for enhanced security
Secure monitoring with mutual TLS certificates
Enterprise single sign-on via SAML
Social single sign-on via Google, Microsoft, Github, and LinkedIn
Testing(8)
Easy setup call creator for defining API test calls
See all parts of the API call process, from DNS lookup to server side processing times from client locations
Create complex API testing workflows with variable persistence across calls
Set conditions and override expected HTTP return codes for advanced testing
Handle GET, PUT, POST, DELETE and more - any type of HTTP request
Set and manage variables at project or global level
Confirm resilience, performance, and readiness across every dependency
Automatically retry failed API calls with configurable methods
Pricing
Starter
- ✓Monitor unlimited endpoints
- ✓Up to 1 project
- ✓Up to 30,000 synthetic API calls/mo
- ✓Up to 3 uptime monitoring endpoints with 5-minute interval
- ✓3 months data retention
- ✓Validation of SLA/SLO and basic security
- ✓Up to 5 collaborators
- ✓Social SSO (Google, MS, Github, LinkedIn)
- ✓API Inventory
- ✓Base security profile
- ✓14 distributed uptime monitoring regions
- ✓100 cloud test origin locations
- ✓Retry on failure methods
- ✓API Key Authentication
- ✓Basic Authentication
- ✓Email Alerts
- ✓Import OAS, Postman, curl
Team
- ✓Everything in Starter plus...
- ✓Up to 1 project
- ✓Up to 100,000 synthetic API calls
- ✓Up to 10 uptime monitoring endpoints with 5-minute interval
- ✓6 months data retention
- ✓Validation of schema, OAS, and OAuth
- ✓Up to 20 collaborators
- ✓Social SSO
- ✓API Inventory
- ✓Schema validation
- ✓Standards Conformance (OAuth, OAS)
- ✓14 distributed uptime monitoring regions
- ✓100 cloud test origin locations
- ✓Multicloud support (AWS, IBM, Akamai, GCP, Azure)
- ✓Retry on failure methods
- ✓API Key Authentication
- ✓Basic Authentication
- ✓OAuth 2.0
- ✓JWT-Based Authentication
- ✓OAS & Postman based Inventory
- ✓Custom Request (Headers, Body)
- ✓Custom assertions
- ✓Email Alerts
- ✓Webhooks
- ✓Weekly reports via email
- ✓Import OAS, Postman, curl
- ✓oTel integrations to APM stacks
Pro
Popular- ✓Everything in Team plus...
- ✓Up to 10 projects
- ✓Up to 500,000 synthetic API calls
- ✓Up to 40 uptime monitoring endpoints with 3-minute interval
- ✓12 months data retention
- ✓Validation of FAPI, FDX, FHIR standards conformance
- ✓Unlimited collaborators
- ✓Social SSO
- ✓SAML SSO
- ✓API Inventory
- ✓Schema validation
- ✓Standards Conformance (OAuth, FAPI, FDX, FHIR)
- ✓14 distributed uptime monitoring regions
- ✓100 cloud test origin locations
- ✓Multicloud support (AWS, IBM, Akamai, GCP, Azure)
- ✓Retry on failure methods
- ✓API Key Authentication
- ✓Basic Authentication
- ✓OAuth 2.0
- ✓JWT-Based Authentication
- ✓OIDC
- ✓OAS & Postman based Inventory
- ✓Custom Request (Headers, Body)
- ✓Custom assertions
- ✓Project Variables
- ✓API Workflows
- ✓Persist variable to subsequent call
- ✓Full Result Response Storage
- ✓SLA/SLO management
- ✓Real time schema validation
- ✓Email Alerts
- ✓Webhooks
- ✓Reporting API
- ✓Weekly reports via email
- ✓Import OAS, Postman, curl
- ✓oTel integrations to APM stacks
- ✓Maximum 4 hour support response
Enterprise
- ✓Everything in Pro, plus...
- ✓Unlimited projects
- ✓Up to 1,000,000 synthetic API calls
- ✓Up to 100 uptime monitoring endpoints with 1-minute interval
- ✓36 months data retention
- ✓Validation of additional standards conformance
- ✓Unlimited collaborators
- ✓Social SSO
- ✓SAML SSO
- ✓API Inventory
- ✓Schema validation
- ✓Standards Conformance (OAuth, FAPI, FDX, FHIR and others)
- ✓14 distributed uptime monitoring regions
- ✓100 cloud test origin locations
- ✓Multicloud support (AWS, IBM, Akamai, GCP, Azure)
- ✓Retry on failure methods
- ✓API Key Authentication
- ✓Basic Authentication
- ✓OAuth 2.0
- ✓JWT-Based Authentication
- ✓OIDC
- ✓OAS & Postman based Inventory
- ✓Custom Request (Headers, Body)
- ✓Custom assertions
- ✓Project Variables
- ✓API Workflows
- ✓Persist variable to subsequent call
- ✓Full Result Response Storage
- ✓SLA/SLO management
- ✓Real time schema validation
- ✓Secure MTLS Certificates
- ✓FIPS140 HSM For Key Storage
- ✓Whitelisting data center IP addresses
- ✓Email Alerts
- ✓Webhooks
- ✓Reporting API
- ✓Weekly reports via email
- ✓Import OAS, Postman, curl
- ✓oTel integrations to APM stacks
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Integrations
13 known integrations