An API Monitoring (Runscope API test) is a series of HTTP requests executed in a sequential order to evaluate the correctness, uptime, and performance of an API. You can define Assertions for each step of the test to validate response data, and Variables that will extract data for subsequent requests. If all assertions pass, the test is considered passed. If any assertion fails or another error occurs, the test is deemed to be failing. Customers shouldn't be telling you about downtime or breakages. Runscope supports all the notification tools you use, including PagerDuty and HipChat, Slack, HipChat email, webhooks, and more. Monitor service performance to quickly detect and fix API problems. With the API Dashboard, you can stay ahead of intermittent failures so they don't become major problems. Verify that your API calls are structured and contain the information you expect. Flexible assertions that are powerful and easy to use give you complete control.