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 so that there is a status page available for each API, giving the uptime status for any given moment, as well as historical data
Strategies
APIs Are Always High Quality and Reliable
Quality and reliability are not things you bolt on after launch. They are things you bake in from the start. If you are not monitoring availability and performance, and communicating that to both p...
APIs Are Observable and Monitored
If you can't see what your APIs are doing, you are flying blind. Monitoring, logging, health checks, alerting, defined SLIs and SLOs--this is the observability surface area that lets you catch prob...
APIs Have Clear Service Level Commitments
Consumers need to know what they can depend on, and that means defined SLAs for uptime, latency, and throughput at each plan tier. Without clear service level commitments, you are asking people to ...
APIs Earn and Maintain Consumer Trust
Trust is earned across every interaction in the API landscape--transparent SLAs, consistent deprecation policies, reliable performance, solid security, clear legal terms. If you want people to buil...
Experiences
Automation
I keep shining a light on automation because it's the only way to scale API operations. When testing, validation, deployment, and governance are all manual, you're just adding human error and slowi...
Communication
I struggle with how little communication happens between the teams producing APIs and the people consuming them. Blogs, changelogs, roadmaps -- these are building blocks that most teams just skip, ...
Quality
I see the quality of APIs eroding across the landscape. Teams ship fast and never look back, but consumers feel every rough edge, every missing example, every inconsistent response. Quality is what...
Reliability
Reliability is where the rubber meets the road in the API landscape. If your APIs aren't up when consumers need them, and if new versions don't land smoothly, none of the other building blocks matter.