On-Demand Functional Tests and Monitors for Your APIs
Go beyond uptime with functional uptime: a better metric for continuous API quality and reliability
Public APIs for Mobile Apps
APIs for Mobile Applications. For some apps, especially consumer ones, APIs provide the tool that enables user interaction with data from multiple applications
Partner APIs
Partner APIs are APIs exposed by/to the strategic business partners. They are not available publicly and need specific entitlement to access them
Developer Portals
The developer portal is the face of your API program, providing everything that internal, partner, and third party developers need.
Which Applies To You?
Whether just starting your journey to improve API quality or optimize your monitoring strategy, our on-demand API functional monitors can be ready out-of-the-box to accelerate your path without needing to increase IT resources.
How It Works
Developer Portals
- Sign up and speak with the API Fortress team, so we can evaluate your developer portal.
- Our platform will generate some example tests for you, and deliver a free trial account.
- After your trial we can generate all of your monitors and we’ll deliver a final account that contains everything you need pre-built and ready out-of-box.
How It Works
Partner APIs
- Sign up and speak with the API Fortress team, so we can learn more about your partner APIs.
- If eligible, API Fortress will generate example functional uptime monitors and deliver a free trial account.
- After your trial we can generate all of your monitors and we’ll deliver a final account that contains everything you need prebuilt and ready out-of-box.
How It Works
Mobile APIs
- Sign up and speak with the API Fortress team, so we can learn more about your mobile apps APIs.
- If eligible, API Fortress will generate example functional uptime monitors and deliver a free trial account.
- After your trial we can generate all of your monitors and we’ll deliver a final account that contains everything you need prebuilt and ready out-of-box.
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What Is Functional Uptime?
On the API Fortress platform, API monitors are functional tests at their core. These tests are data-driven and capable of reproducing normal API consumer flows. So that means our monitors go beyond what a traditional synthetic monitor sees.
Ultimately, API Fortress allows companies to unify functional testing and monitoring into a holistic unified API quality strategy. This extends coverage to a much wider range of API problems before and after they go live.
Solution Brief
Understand the immediate and long-term benefits of accelerating your path to data-driven API monitoring. Share this brief with technical and non-technical team members.
Integrate with Your Existing Toolchain
Connect API Fortress monitoring data and notifications with any of your preferred notifications or messaging tool (PagerDuty, xMatters, Slack, JIRA, etc.) and analytics dashboard (Elastic Kibana, Datadog, Splunk, New Relic, etc.).
“Organizations should look beyond their traditional GUI- or web-testing tools. API testing is a critical element of the layered test automation strategy required by DevOps.”
Conduct Data-driven
Functional Testing
Functional Testing
Most mobile apps and web services require APIs that are connected to multiple databases that undergo constant change (change events). For example, an ecommerce app may allow users to select different shoes with varying colors, sizes, and prices. Or a health insurance app may require patients or practitioners to choose from options that may quickly change due to unprecedented times.
Testing these database-connected APIs using static calls from something like a CSV won’t properly reproduce real world conditions. That’s why data-driven testing is critical to ensure true uptime, allowing APIs to be run in numerous unpredictable manners, and therefore properly tested for normal and edge cases.
We noticed a considerable increase in the quality of code released with the help of API Fortress. Their flexible platform makes it easy to integrate API testing and monitoring into any workflow without disrupting legacy or new tools.
—Sander Rensen, Lead Solution Architect at CapGemini
Enhance API Resilience
A growing number of the largest data breaches are turning out to be API breaches. Recently, Nordic APIs published a piece on “5 Major Modern API Data Breaches” in which a common theme emerges: too many companies focus on the security of their app, while neglecting to properly test for functional vulnerabilities.
Functional uptime monitoring could have detected many of the API vulnerabilities that opened the doors for an API breach for the simple reason that most vulnerabilities were caused by human error. By monitoring APIs for real user behavior with functional testing, you can supplement your API security with deeper insights, and even catch API defects caused by human error before it’s too late.
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