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Uptrends API Monitoring

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description Uptrends API Monitoring Overview

This specialized feature within Uptrends allows developers to focus solely on API endpoint validation. It supports complex request headers, body payloads (JSON/XML), and detailed response code/body validation. It is perfect for microservices architectures where the front-end might be fine, but a critical backend API call is failing silently. It leverages the platform's robust global network.

help Uptrends API Monitoring FAQ

Can Uptrends API Monitoring test authenticated JSON endpoints?

Yes, an API monitor can send custom request headers and JSON or XML payloads, allowing it to exercise authenticated REST endpoints. Teams can also validate the returned status code and inspect the response body for expected content.

How is an Uptrends API monitor different from a website uptime check?

A basic uptime check confirms that a URL responds, while API Monitoring can validate request methods, headers, payloads, and response data. That makes it useful when a microservice can fail even though the public front end still loads.

Can one Uptrends check reuse data from an earlier API response?

Uptrends supports multi-step API monitoring for workflows in which a value such as an authentication token must be captured and reused. This can model a sequence such as signing in, creating a record, and then retrieving that record.

Where can Uptrends run API checks from?

Uptrends can execute checks through its external checkpoint network, while private checkpoints cover APIs that are not exposed publicly. Private checkpoints are especially relevant for internal microservices, staging systems, and endpoints protected by a corporate network.

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