Monitor API performance for a critical workflow

Fictional example describing how to monitor API performance using uptime test monitoring from Splunk Synthetic Monitoring.

Kai, a site reliability engineer at Buttercup Industries, a fictitious e-commerce company, uses Splunk Synthetic Monitoring to monitor the performance of the Buttercup Industries site. Kai keeps ahead of potential issues in their organization’s site using Uptime test monitoring.

Monitor API performance for a checkout workflow

Buttercup Industries has a large conference coming up, and they’re expecting many users will want to order a t-shirt ahead of the conference. Kai sets up an API test to monitor the performance of API endpoints for the Buttercup Industries checkout endpoint.

Kai creates an API test for this example, as shown in the following image:

Screenshot of an API test with a GET request, an authorization token, and a validation request for response codes equaling 200.

Learn more about API tests

See the following topics to learn how to set up an API test, and to learn more about the results, diagnostics, and metrics that API tests capture: