Making an API status page, monitoring reports, or other real-time updates regarding the uptime and availability of an API, providing current, but also the historical status of API, helping maintain trust with API consumers.
Status
Rules
APIs.json Apis Properties Status Info
This property ensures that there is a status page available for each API, providing the uptime status for any given moment, as well as historical data
Strategies
APIs Are Always High Quality and Reliable
All APIs should be high quality and reliable, providing adequate levels of monitoring of its availability and performance, with the proper provenance and communication with producer and consumers r...
APIs Are Observable and Monitored
All APIs must have comprehensive observability including monitoring, logging, health checks, and alerting, with defined SLIs and SLOs that ensure teams can proactively detect, diagnose, and resolve...
APIs Earn and Maintain Consumer Trust
All APIs must demonstrate trustworthiness through transparent service level commitments, consistent deprecation policies, reliable performance, proper security, and clear legal terms, building the ...
APIs Have Clear Service Level Commitments
All production APIs must have defined service level agreements (SLAs) that specify uptime, availability, latency, and throughput commitments for each plan tier, providing consumers with the confide...
Experiences
Automation
Automating business operations is a primary driver for adopting and governing APIs, enabling organizations to achieve the scale, speed, and quality needed to remain competitive in global markets. A...
Communication
Consistent communication about the production and consumption of APIs is critical for effective enterprise governance. APIs are inherently difficult to visualize, making it essential to invest in m...
Quality
The quality of HTTP APIs powering an enterprise tends to decline as the number of ungoverned APIs grows across internal, partner, and public landscapes. Low-quality APIs lead to poor downstream exp...
Reliability
If an API isn’t reliable, consumers will eventually look for alternatives. Reliability starts with the platform and infrastructure where the API is deployed, but it also depends heavily on the pace...
Lifecycle
monitoring Monitoring Production
Monitoring is how I keep a promise of reliability. Uptime checks, health endpoints, and alerting tell me an API is doing its job before consumers have to tell me it is not. Monitoring is the differ...
