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Keep tabs on all aspects of your API's performance with uptime monitoring, integration testing, logging and real-time monitoring. | Legible & concise status badges for third-party codebase services. | It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide. |
Runscope Radar: Automatically monitor your APIs from around the globe. Integrates with PagerDuty, New Relic Insights, Keen IO, HipChat, Slack and more. Test complete API workflows with powerful assertions and notifications.; Runscope Metrics: API performance and usage reports.; Runscope API Traffic Inspector: Log and view API calls from any language or framework to any API to solve integration problems. | Have your own GitHub badges;Visual consistency;Look good on high-res displays; SVG;Open source | Compact layout;HTTP requests with file upload support;Formatted API responses for JSON and XML;Image previews;Request history;Basic Auth, OAuth 1.0, OAuth 2.0, and other common auth helpers;Autocomplete for URL and header values;Key/value editors for adding parameters or header values. Works for URL parameters too.;Use environment variables to easily shift between settings. Great for testing production, staging or local setups.;Keyboard shortcuts to maximize your productivity;Automatically generated web documentation;Mock servers hosted on Postman’s cloud;API monitoring run from Postman cloud |
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