How to prevent breaking API changes with API Gateway

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Prometheus

Monitor the routes passing through the gateway. If a previously available route suddenly starts returning 404 errors, it's a potential sign that the API has undergone a change or an endpoint has been deprecated. Enable the API health check feature to monitor continuously the overall health of upstream nodes. If one of the nodes starts to fail, responding faster or slower than usual, it might indicate a change in the underlying backend service's processing. Integrate APISIX with monitoring tools like Prometheus using the prometheus plugin. Set up alerts based on metrics, such as an increased rate of 4xx or 5xx errors, which could indicate breaking changes in your API.

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Apache APISIX

When you develop APIs, you sometimes change things that might cause problems for current API consumers. Evolving your API product without affecting current users is essential, otherwise, they might lose trust in your offer. It's impossible to altogether avoid these problems but you can minimize the impact or catch some catch-breaking changes before they happen. Breaking changes need to be identified during the development phase, and if they happen, the API gateway should handle them to ensure client applications remain unaffected. In this article, we will explore some best practices and strategies to prevent API-breaking changes and how to handle them using the APISIX API Gateway.

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