REST API monitoring with PRTG
Keep a 24/7 eye on the availability and performance of your RESTful API integrations
- Automatically reads the content of XML and JSON files and creates suitable channels
- Individual REST configuration templates and custom XML and JSON mapping
- Sends real-time alerts if there’s a problem with REST API connectivity or performance
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PRTG REST API monitoring: What you’ll find on this page
PRTG makes REAT API monitoring as easy as it gets
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent issues with the availability and performance of RESTful API connections.
How REST API monitoring with PRTG works
Comprehensive REST monitoring
PRTG’s REST API monitoring includes the following key API metrics:
- Monitors REST API availability and other performance metrics
- Recognizes the content of XML and JSON files automatically
- Analyzes up to 50 parameters per sensor
- Automatically creates suitable channels for values
- Reads individual REST configuration templates
- Offers custom JSON and XML mapping
Quick and easy sensor setup
PRTG comes with preconfigured REST Custom sensors that you can add with a few clicks:
- Create an endpoint that you want to monitor in PRTG’s device tree.
- Add the REST Custom or the REST Custom v2 sensor
- Let PRTG automatically search for values to monitor or select a custom REST configuration template.
- Set custom warning and error thresholds.
- View sensor values at a glance using custom dashboards and maps.
What REST API monitoring looks like in PRTG
Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking the availability and performance of REST API integrations. Show API response times, latency, response codes, error rates, uptime, API call validation, and other key metrics in real time. Visualize monitoring data in clear graphs and dashboards to identify problems more easily. Gain the overview you need to troubleshoot outages, bottlenecks, authentication problems, and other API performance issues to optimize your network.
Device tree view of the complete monitoring setup
Preconfigured REST Custom sensor in PRTG
Custom PRTG dashboard for keeping an eye on the entire IT infrastructure
Start monitoring REST APIs with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.
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4 reasons to choose PRTG as your REST API monitoring tool
Connect your web services and cloud applications, the Internet of Things, and other endpoints via REST API to PRTG and track all the values you need to ensure a reliable and stable IT infrastructure.
Easy installation and setup
Install PRTG with a few clicks, enter an IP address range, and let the automatic network discovery do the first setup for you. You can then tailor your monitoring to suit and add the REST sensors you need, which will automatically read content from the XML and JSON files you provide.
24/7 comprehensive overview
Desktop, smartphone, or tablet – with PRTG, you can view everything at a glance. Check your REST values directly in the respective sensor, or create custom dashboards and maps that display data the way you want to. Our traffic light color coding immediately informs you if something’s amiss.
Customizable notifications
Define custom warning and error thresholds and PRTG will alert you via email, SMS, push notification, and more as soon as there’s unplanned downtime or any other network issue. You can even let PRTG take automatic action, for example, restarting a service or web application.
All-in-one network monitoring
PRTG is a comprehensive tool for monitoring your entire network. You get a centralized software that monitors all your hardware, applications, network traffic, and much more. Say goodbye to stand-alone solutions which are cumbersome, prone to error, and often cost way more.
Your REST API monitor at a glance – even on the go
Set up PRTG in minutes and use it on almost any mobile device.
Explore our preconfigured PRTG sensors for REST API monitoring
PRTG comes with more than 250 native sensor types for monitoring your entire on-premises, cloud, and hybrid cloud environment out of the box. Check out some examples below!
Find the root cause of the problem with our PRTG REST API monitoring solution
Real-time notifications mean faster troubleshooting so that you can act before more serious issues occur.
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PRTG makes REAT API monitoring as easy as it gets
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent issues with the availability and performance of RESTful API connections.
PRTG: The multi-tool for sysadmins
Adapt PRTG individually and dynamically to your needs and rely on a strong API:- HTTP API: Access monitoring data and manipulate monitoring objects via HTTP requests
- Custom sensors: Create your own PRTG sensors for customized monitoring
- Custom notifications: Create your own notifications and send action triggers to external systems
- REST Custom sensor: Monitor almost everything that provides data in XML or JSON format
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Paessler conducted trials in over 600 IT departments worldwide to tune its network monitoring software closer to the needs of sysadmins.
The result of the survey: over 95% of the participants would recommend PRTG – or already have.
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