Monitoring API Performance and Delivering a Scalable API Solution

Tharindu Mathew

Associate Tech. Lead – WSO2 BAM

Member – Data Mgt. Committee

Recap

• Monitoring stats available - http://bit.ly/SFepPt

• Usage data such as number of hits, subscriptions, access time already gathered

The feedback cycle

Gather API data

Slice and Dice

Decide

Adjust parameters

Gathering API data

• What if you want custom data off of API requests?

• Plug-in a monitoring extension – mediator

• Net total of each order – total=259

API Manager

BAM

Slice and Dice

• Customers who have placed orders above 2 mil USD

• Select customer_name, sum(order_amount) from Orders groupby customer_name

Customer_name Sum(order_amount)

Coyote 2,332,223

Acme 10,654,333

Decide

Decide (cont.)

• Check for trends

• Compare past resutls

• Get help with Reporting & Dashboards

Adjust parameters

Adjust parameters (cont.)

• Increase server capacity

• Increase redundancy

• Retire APIs

• Introduce new versions

BAM Architecture

BAM Characteristics

• Performance

• Scalability

• Customizability

BAM Technologies

• WSO2 Carbon

• Apache Thrift

• WSO2 SS - Apache Cassandra, Apache Hadoop

• Apache Hive

• Apache Zookeeper

• WSO2 Jaggery

Summary

• Create an effective feedback cycle

• BAM Architecture & Technologies

Q & A