Notes on API and vendor monitoring
Uptime checks, incident response, SLA tracking, and the parts of vendor monitoring that actually matter when something breaks.
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Cloud Dependency Mapping: How to Find the Vendors That Can Break Your Product
Build a cloud dependency map that connects vendors, APIs, regions, and components to customer workflows so your team can prioritize monitoring and resilience work.
PagerDuty Vendor Outage Alerts: How to Page the Right Incidents and Suppress Noise
Route vendor outage alerts to PagerDuty without overwhelming on-call by tiering dependencies, filtering severity, suppressing maintenance, and testing escalation paths.
Incident Postmortem for a Third-Party Outage: Questions That Lead to Better Resilience
Run a better third-party outage postmortem with questions that focus on detection, dependency mapping, communication, fallback behavior, and resilience investment.
API Uptime Monitoring Checklist: 12 Checks Every SaaS Team Should Run
Use this API uptime monitoring checklist to cover endpoint checks, vendor status pages, dependency impact, alert routing, SLA history, and customer communication.
Introducing Stack Impact Intelligence: Map Vendors to Business Workflows
Map your cloud vendor infrastructure directly to core business capabilities. Get context you can explain to the team during third-party outages so your engineering team knows exactly what customer workflows are impacted.
Introducing the PulsAPI Integrations Hub: Slack, Discord, MS Teams & PagerDuty
One place to connect all your alerting tools. PulsAPI's new Integrations Hub lets you route incident alerts to Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, and PagerDuty, from a single settings page.
How to Route PulsAPI Alerts to PagerDuty for On-Call Escalation
A step-by-step guide to connecting PulsAPI with PagerDuty so critical third-party outages automatically page your on-call engineer.
SSO and Audit Logs: Enterprise-Grade Security for Status Monitoring
How PulsAPI's SSO and audit log features help security-conscious enterprises maintain access control and compliance visibility across their monitoring setup.
Why Unified Status Monitoring Matters for Engineering Teams
Your team depends on dozens of cloud services. When one goes down, how fast do you know? Here's why a single pane of glass changes everything.