11 Most Popular Tools for Logging and Monitoring API Calls

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Sematext

Sematext offers a very popular solution in Sematext Logs. Sematext Logs supports the creation of detailed log entries, capturing essential data for troubleshooting and performance monitoring. Sematext positions their offering as a Log Management-as-a-Service model, supporting the exfiltration of API logs from containers, infrastructure, applications, etc. It facilitates this by supporting Syslog or the Elasticsearch API, which opens it to a wide range of implementations. Because it supports these solutions, you can use Sematext natively, bypassing more expensive options which require third party solutions for performance monitoring.

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Sauce Labs

Sauce Labs used to be called API Fortress, and under that name, it generated a bit of a reputation as a cloud-based REST API monitoring solution. Setting up Sauce Labs for monitoring involves establishing secure connections to ensure data integrity and security. Sauce Labs continues this success by providing testing, monitoring, and reporting, but for those looking principally for API log tooling, Sauce Labs can seem a bit too feature-complete. Ultimately the use case for Sauce Labs is a bit of column A and column B – if you want to collect API logs for the purpose of generating reports and insights, Sauce Labs is a great solution. If you want to log to just log, this might be another in the column of “too good for what you need”.

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Graphite

Graphite is an open source monitoring and logging system that utilizes a push-based design architecture. What this means is that Graphite allows services to push their API logs into a component called Graphite Carbon, which is then stored in a database for later deep introspection and transformation. Prometheus, another open-source monitoring toolkit designed for cloud-native applications, is often used alongside Graphite for enhanced monitoring capabilities. Graphite's main selling point is its easy deployment through its native Synthesize product, an automated installation and configuration system which promises to get users up and running with minimal headache.

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Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch brings the proven logging and monitoring approaches on offer from Amazon. Amazon CloudWatch is one of the most flexible API monitoring tools available, offering robust logging and monitoring capabilities. This solution is relatively robust, but the main selling point is in the pricing model – CloudWatch is very flexible, offering pay-as-you-go, which allows for easy scaling. That being said, the solution is tooled specifically for the AWS API gateway, which makes it a hard sell to anyone not utilizing AWS systems. Because of the usage based nature of CloudWatch’s payment structure understanding the performance metric that eat your budget can help guide the decision to use CloudWatch for uptime monitoring or synthetic API monitoring.

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