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February 2024

squadcast

Navigating the Evolving Landscape: A Deep Dive into REST API Versioning Strategies

Feb 29, 2024 By Vishal Padghan In Squadcast
In the ever-evolving landscape of APIs, ensuring seamless interactions and managing changes becomes crucial. While innovation and adaptability are essential, maintaining backward compatibility is equally important to avoid disruption for existing users. This is where REST API versioning comes into play. Versioning allows you to introduce new features or changes to your API in a controlled manner, while simultaneously keeping older versions running smoothly.
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checkly

Cultivating Your Tech Garden: Enriching APM with Synthetic Monitoring

Feb 27, 2024 By Cinthia Portugal In Checkly
Welcome to the Tech Garden, a place where our monitoring tools, like to diverse flora, contribute to a thriving digital ecosystem. Our journey starts with the foundational roots of Application Performance Monitoring (APM), crucial for initial growth and stability, like the roots beneath our fruit trees.
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Broken windows: Why the 'Single Pane of Glass' is Impossible

Feb 26, 2024 By Nočnica Mellifera In Checkly
It was only as I started to study information theory that I truly understood how nonsensically the computer worked in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Decades before voice assistants and at a time when only the most basic language parsing existed in practice, the computer on Star Trek could always give you the answer you wanted. No one ever spent any time clicking into multiple windows to find an answer, and the display always gave information that could be easily summarized in words.
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How to run your Playwright end-to-end tests in SloMo

Feb 23, 2024 By Checkly In Checkly
Sometimes you want to follow along your Playwright tests without starting a full debugging session. Learn in this video how to slow down your Playwright end-to-end tests, to see and watch exactly what's happening in your testing scripts. Use the "slowMo" launch option configuration to add delays inbetween all Playwright actions. More cool Playwright and Synthetic Monitoring tips coming your way soon!
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Microsoft 365 APM Profiles using REST API Monitor and Microsoft Graph API

Feb 19, 2024 By WhatsUp Gold In WhatsUp Gold
As of WUG 2022 our REST API monitor supports OAuth 2 Client Credentials allowing a daemon application (non user interactive) to authenticate as an application to the Graph API. Using this new capability we created new APM profile to monitor Microsoft 365 and Office 365.
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How to end-to-end test and monitor your login flows with Playwright and Checkly

Feb 18, 2024 By Checkly In Checkly
In this video, Stefan from Checkly demonstrates how to monitor a login and authentication flow using Checkly and Microsoft's Playwright. Stefan guides you through the entire process. If you're interested in end-to-end testing or synthetic monitoring, this video is for you. Drop a question below or leave a comment!
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checkly

IaC? CI? Shift Left? What do they really mean? - A DevOps Glossary

Feb 16, 2024 By Nočnica Mellifera In Checkly
Look, we've all been there: there's a term, you've heard it one hundred times. You've nodded as others said it in meetings. And now, you've started to say it. The only tiny insignificant problem is that you're not 100% sure what it actually means or how it's different from another similar term. I feel you. So I wrote this DevOps glossary with my highly opinionated definitions of common DevOps industry terms.
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checkly

The Real Cost of Synthetic User Testing with AWS

Feb 14, 2024 By Nočnica Mellifera In Checkly
Every time I share a project using SaaS tools, someone inevitably responds that they could do the same thing on their own home server ‘for free.’ I mention this not because it is annoying, since I would never go on social media at all if annoying responses were allowed to change my behavior, but because I think it points to a basic misconception that still affects DevOps practitioners today: the refusal to accurately estimate the real costs of self-managed solutions.
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honeycomb

Safer Client-Side Instrumentation with Honeycomb's Ingest-Only API Keys

Feb 14, 2024 By Jason Harley In Honeycomb
We're delighted to introduce our new Ingest API Keys, a significant step toward enabling all Honeycomb customers to manage their observability complexity simply, efficiently, and securely. Ingest Keys are currently available for Environment & Services customers, with Classic support and programmatic key management capabilities under development and coming soon!
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catchpoint

Mastering IPM: API Monitoring for Digital Resilience

Feb 13, 2024 By Denton Chikura In Catchpoint
APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) have quietly evolved into the backbone of contemporary business operations, even though it's ironic that most people use APIs without even realizing it. For instance, you're ordering your favorite takeaway online; you tap the payment button, and voilà! Through APIs, your payment information swiftly traverses the digital landscape, promptly reflecting the adjustment in your credit card balance.
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checkly

How Often Should You Ping Your Site?

Feb 9, 2024 By Nočnica Mellifera In Checkly
How often should you ping your site? Should you be checking every few minutes, or every hour? Surely you have other ways to detect problems, so maybe just a daily check of your API and main page would be enough, right? While there’s no single right answer for everyone, this post tries to break down how you can find the right cadence for your site checks.
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checkly

Your Practical Guide to Reducing MTTR

Feb 9, 2024 By Sara Miteva In Checkly
Let’s face it. Incidents will always happen. We simply can’t prevent them. But we can strive to mitigate the impact incidents have on our product and customers. Ensuring high reliability depends on quickly and effectively finding and fixing problems. This is where the metric MTTR, standing for “mean time to restore” or “mean time to resolve,” becomes valuable for organizations.
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signoz

Latest top 17 API monitoring tools [open-source included]

Feb 8, 2024 By Sai Deepesh In SigNoz
Choosing the right API monitoring tool is critical. How do you know which is the right API monitoring tool for you? Here are the top 17 API monitoring tools, including open source tools for API performance monitoring. In this article, we will review the top 17 API monitoring tools which you can use for monitoring your APIs. But first, let’s have a brief overview of APIs.
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How to wait for a specific API response in your Playwright end-to-end tests

Feb 8, 2024 By Checkly In Checkly
Learn in this video how to monitor network HTTP calls in your end-to-end tests and use Playwright's "waitForResponse" method to capture specific network responses. This approach allows you to wait for specific API calls to validate if you website or app shows the correct data.
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Open Source Observability with OpenTelemetry and ChecklyDescription

Feb 7, 2024 By Checkly In Checkly
We need to monitor our service's performance, but large closed SaaS options are expensive and complex. OpenTelemetry is the 'wave of the future' for observability, but is it ready for your team? Yes! Join Nočnica to see a demonstration of instrumenting a demo application and learn what OpenTelemetry can do. We'll also add external site monitors with Checkly synthetics checks.
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checkly

Exploring the Synergy Between Testing and Monitoring in Software Development

Feb 6, 2024 By Nočnica Mellifera In Checkly
The roles of testing and monitoring often intersect, yet they maintain distinct identities. In my near-decade in the tech sector I've observed how end-to-end (E2E) tests and synthetic monitoring, despite common frameworks and requirements, often fail to benefit from collaboration and synergy.
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signoz

Monitoring your FastAPI application with OpenTelemetry

Feb 5, 2024 By Ankit Anand In SigNoz
FastAPI is a modern Python web framework based on standard Python type hints that makes it easy to build APIs. It's a relatively new framework, having been released in 2018 but has now been adopted by big companies like Uber, Netflix, and Microsoft. Using OpenTelemetry, you can monitor your FastAPI applications for performance by collecting telemetry signals like traces. FastAPI is one of the fastest Python web frameworks currently available and is really efficient when it comes to writing code.
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raygun

Ensuring software quality with integration testing

Feb 2, 2024 By Deacon McIntyre In Raygun
Before the Raygun API limited release last year, we'd been consistently receiving requests for a public API for a long time, to provide a way for our customers to access their Raygun data programmatically. We're now proud to say we're providing a public API with a range of endpoints, but it took us a lot of planning and development to get here! In this post, I'd like to take you back to the beginning of development on our big API project. Specifically, I want to walk through the pivotal decisions we made around testing when we started development on the project, and how (and why) these have paid off.
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