Runscope

Runscope by BlazeMeter is an API monitoring tool designed to assist businesses in ensuring the uptime, performance, and data accuracy of their APIs. According to the vendor, Runscope caters to a range of professions and industries, including software development, DevOps, IT operations, e-commerce, and financial services.

Key Features

Uptime Monitoring: According to the vendor, Runscope offers threshold-based downtime alerts, allowing users to be promptly notified when an API is down. The product also supports popular notification tools such as PagerDuty, Slack, HipChat, email, and webhooks.

Performance Measurement: Runscope provides visibility into API performance, allowing users to proactively monitor service performance and identify and debug API problems. The API Dashboard and daily API Performance Report offer an at-a-glance view of API health. Users can monitor both public and private APIs using global cloud agents or the On-Premises Agent.

Data Validation: Runscope enables users to verify the correctness of API data by adding simple assertions for JSON and XML data. The product allows for the validation of HTTP headers, status codes, and response bodies. Advanced programmatic validations can be built using JavaScript and the Chai Assertion Library. Additionally, users can create monitors by importing Swagger/Open API and other formats.