API Status Board
As
everything moves to the cloud, the reliability of online services is
becoming more and more critical to anyone who wants to create online
products. Whether you have your own business attempting to sell to
online customers, or you are trying to invent a web app that does
something revolutionary, or even if you work in the mobile or tablet
space, chances are you rely heavily on cloud services to do everything
from database management, data processing, analytics, storage and so on.
This means you may rely on a dozen or more online services to stay up
and available, and you may need to keep an eye on each of them
individually.
Zapier
has a new site that aims to provide a single point of control for all
of your web APIs. From a single status board, you can monitor all of the
popular web APIs including Box, Facebook, Foursquare, Mailchimp,
Salesforce and so on. In all, the site monitors 196 services and it is
adding more all the time. In an easy to use interface, you can keep an
eye on those APIs that your web app relies on, or you can find out which
API works better than others. It tracks the past week of uptime, and
even offers to send you alerts when a particular service goes down.
Zapier’s
core business is to automate tasks between these APIs. Using their
services, you can create tasks between popular cloud systems, like
taking a form mail from Mailchimp and mixing it with data coming from
Salesforce. But the API status page is a nice way for those of us who
rely on cloud systems for our day to day work to keep track of these
things, and it is available for free to everyone.
