API Health has been a very beneficial toolkit for Autodesk.
We had the requirement to monitor our APIs from the development team. With the
current design, we are able to build reusable templates to test our backend
APIs with the powerful environmental variables and Javascript scripting. Since
we needed to calculate input variables for multiple endpoints, it helped to be
able to chain steps together to create a probe that simulates real-traffic.
For instance, it is possible to calculate variables for one
call, get some variables from the response and use those as inputs into the
next call. This creates the dynamic of being able to create very complex flows
to simulate business requirements against your APIs.
Furthermore, today you have very robust monitoring options
once the probes are created. It is possible to execute them from multi-regions
and at different frequencies. Also, as our team wanted to be notified on
failure, we had the ability to connect the error messages to Slack/HipChat and
email responses.
We also really enjoy the fact that we can test things in
real-time / validate new credentials. For instance, when we onboard new teams
to new APIs, we use API Health to verify their application will be successful
in integration.
The benefits we like the most are:
- Reduced
reliance on support and QA teams
- Expedites
resolving system issues
- Identify
errors for clients internally and externally
- Validate
functionality in real-time
At Autodesk, we love the API Health functionality and have
been very happy so far. We look forward to seeing this product grow!
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