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Robin Wauters
March 25th, 2011

A Look At The Uptime Of 50 Popular APIs

APIs are like websites: they are available most of the time, but unfortunately not all the time.

Website and application performance monitoring startup WatchMouse monitored the uptime of 50 of the most popular APIs (as ranked by ProgrammableWeb) for a month to see which are the most reliable – and which ones are rather flaky.

WatchMouse, which also publishes API statuses in real time at … → Read More

Robin Wauters
January 19th, 2010

WatchMouse Monitors 26 Popular APIs So You Don't Have To

Website monitoring startup WatchMouse is launching a new service dubbed API-status.com today, a website that displays realtime availability and performance of popular, public APIs.

The lists of monitored APIs consists of 26 of the most heavily trafficked Web services, including Google Search, Google Maps, Bing, Facebook, Twitter, SalesForce, YouTube, Amazon, eBay and others. → Read More