Tools for REST API Monitoring in 2019

Here is the dashboard we created (please, don’t let Russian symbols scary you, I didn’t mean this):

At first glance this solution looked like exactly what we needed:

However, we had to invent everything from scratch, so we had to find answers to next questions:

You can see that there’s plenty of space to mess up the whole thing by missing a tiny, but crucial point, e.g. a small error in metrics collection may lead to huge troubles, unfortunately we had such experience, we’ll publish an article about this a bit later. Here is one of the default New Relic APM dashboards:

But then I discovered a feature called New Relic Insights, it is a visualization tool that allows you to build custom dashboards using the data from your New Relic APM. Default APM dashboards look identical to New Relic’s, maybe a bit less overloaded, but the whole impression is the same: you can’t use it for REST API monitoring out of the box, at least when you have to comply with strict SLA terms.

Source: slao.io