Ensure API reliability with proactive API monitoring.
Stay one step ahead with instant alerts on API downtime or slow responses.
Keep your API-powered services running smoothly.
Monitor your APIs for availability and performance issues before they disrupt users or cascade into system-wide outages across dependent services.
Prevent cascading failures.
APIs often power mission-critical services. When an API breaks, everything connected to it can fail. Be the first to know when something goes wrong.
Go beyond “200 OK” with response checks.
Don’t rely on status codes alone. Validate JSON, key fields, and expected values to catch broken responses, empty results, or unexpected messages before they cascade into bigger failures.
Great for AI APIs and model routers.
AI endpoints can be available but still return unusable output. Monitor endpoints from providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and OpenRouter. Validate structured JSON output, token usage, model metadata, and schema compliance to catch malformed responses.
Detect and respond to performance drops.
Set response time thresholds to detect slow or degraded API performance before your customers do.
All you really care about
monitored in one place.
Advanced features for advanced users.
Recurring notifications
Set threshold and recurrence parameters so that you don't miss any serious outage.
Maintenance windows
Set up maintenance windows to pause the monitoring during the maintenance.
Incident management
Get a single overview of all incidents. Filter by status, root cause, or custom tags, tag teammates for instant collaboration, and push updates to your status pages.
Response time monitoring
See your response times in a chart and get alerts when your website or service responds slower than usual.
Multi-location checks
Create monitors with specific monitoring regions you can choose and catch issues that only appear in specific locations.
SMS and voice call notifications
No internet? We can call or text you when something goes wrong.
Set up API monitoring in seconds.
1. Create a monitor
Start with any Ping or HTTP monitor to see the status, or Keyword monitor to check for a specific word in the API response. Use the target API endpoint as the URL.
2. Add authentication and headers
Use the custom header feature to pass tokens or credentials. Basic, Digest, and JWT are supported.
3. Set a response time threshold
Define your performance expectations. Get notified when the API responds too slowly or not at all.
4. Get alerts instantly
Get alerted anywhere with 20+ integrations, including Email, SMS, Slack, Webhook, MS Teams, PagerDuty, and more.
Frequently asked questions.
What is API monitoring?
API monitoring checks the availability and performance of an API by sending regular requests to an endpoint and verifying the expected response. If the API fails or responds too slowly, you’ll get alerted.
Can I monitor authenticated APIs?
Yes. We support Basic and Digest authentication, and JWT tokens via custom headers. OAuth2 support is in the works.
Can I set custom response time thresholds?
Absolutely. Set a maximum response time per API and get notified if your service exceeds it.
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