Use Case

Observability & Monitoring

Metrics, traces, and health across systems.

44 providers 317 APIs 29 declared variants

Instrumenting infrastructure and applications so failures are visible — metrics, distributed tracing, uptime checks, SLOs, anomaly alerting, and unified dashboards over the whole estate.

44 API providers on the APIs.io network offer observability & monitoring. The highest-rated are Dynatrace, Postman, Datadog, New Relic, Adobe Analytics.

Providers

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 7 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
DynatraceDynatrace is a software intelligence platform that provides application performance monitoring, artificial ...6 published contracts86.3PostmanPostman is the world's leading API platform, used by 35+ million developers to design, build, test, documen...21 published contracts80.2DatadogDatadog is a monitoring and analytics platform that helps organizations gain insight into their infrastruct...6 published contracts79.8New RelicNew Relic offers an AI‑powered observability platform that provides application performance monitoring, dig...5 published contracts74.4Adobe AnalyticsAdobe Analytics provides real-time analytics and detailed segmentation capabilities across all marketing ch...11 published contracts69.0ConvoyConvoy is an open-source, cloud-native webhooks gateway used to securely ingest, persist, debug, deliver, a...1 published contract68.4OracleCollection of Oracle's APIs and developer resources across cloud infrastructure, databases, AI services, Sa...161 published contracts68.4
Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps
SolarWindsSolarWinds provides a comprehensive suite of APIs enabling programmatic access to its IT infrastructure man...5 published contracts64.8Azure Log AnalyticsAzure Log Analytics is a service that helps you collect and analyze data generated by resources in your clo...5 APIs60.3Amazon CloudWatchAmazon CloudWatch is an intelligent observability platform providing complete visibility into performance, ...2 published contracts59.1AWS CloudWatchAmazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service that provides data and actionable insights for ...1 published contract56.9AWS App MeshAWS App Mesh is a service mesh based on the Envoy proxy that provides application-level networking to make ...1 published contract55.1
Developing 14 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
AgentGatewayAgentGateway is an open-source, AI-native proxy and gateway for routing, observing, and governing traffic t...1 published contract54.2Amazon Managed Service for Apache FlinkAmazon Managed Service for Apache Flink is the easiest way to transform and analyze streaming data in real ...1 published contract54.0Amazon Managed GrafanaAmazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed service for open source Grafana developed in collaboration with G...1 published contract53.9Oracle Enterprise ManagerOracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) provides a comprehensive management platform for managing Oracle IT infrast...1 published contract52.1Amazon Managed Service for PrometheusAmazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a serverless, Prometheus-compatible monitoring service for contain...1 published contract51.5Amazon Lookout for EquipmentAmazon Lookout for Equipment uses machine learning to analyze sensor data from your industrial equipment an...1 published contract50.7AWS X-RayAWS X-Ray is a service that helps developers analyze and debug distributed applications by providing end-to...1 published contract50.2Amazon Fault Injection SimulatorAWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) is a fully managed service for running fault injection experiments on A...6 APIs48.3Apache APISIXApache APISIX is a dynamic, real-time, high-performance cloud-native API gateway built on NGINX and etcd, d...2 published contracts48.3AssertibleAssertible provides a reliable first line of defense against web service failures by providing simple and p...1 published contract48.2NominatimNominatim is an open-source (BSD-2-Clause) search engine for OpenStreetMap data, supporting forward geocodi...1 published contract44.8AxiomAxiom is a serverless log management and analytics platform that provides real-time insights into structure...15 APIs44.7Chaos MeshChaos Mesh is a CNCF graduated cloud-native chaos engineering platform that orchestrates chaos experiments ...2 published contracts43.5APIToolkit (Monoscope)APIToolkit (now Monoscope) is an open-source-friendly API observability and monitoring platform that helps ...1 published contract42.8
Thin 10 Limited public surface area
Apache CassandraApache Cassandra is a highly scalable, distributed open-source NoSQL database designed to handle massive am...1 published contract38.0AirbusA European multinational aerospace corporation designing, manufacturing, and selling commercial aircraft, h...1 published contract37.8Axiom ControllerAxiom is a cloud-native observability platform providing APIs for ingesting, querying, and managing telemet...4 APIs37.7AI GatewayAn API Evangelist landscape index of AI gateways — the LLM routers, prompt firewalls, model fallback proxie...1 published contract37.4Bonneville Power AdministrationThe Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Energy that mar...2 published contracts37.2Ambient MeshAmbient Mesh is a sidecar-less service mesh architecture built on Istio that simplifies microservices commu...1 API35.2nOpsnOps is an AI-powered cloud cost visibility and optimization platform that helps organizations reduce their...1 published contract32.3EventsEvent-driven APIs catalog. Documents the landscape of brokers, streaming platforms, schema registries, and ...18 APIs29.2Traefik MeshTraefik Mesh (formerly Maesh) is a lightweight, non-invasive service mesh built on top of Traefik Proxy for...1 published contract28.6Confident AIConfident AI is the company behind DeepEval, the widely adopted open-source LLM evaluation framework, and t...3 APIs27.3
Emerging 6 Early or largely undocumented
Allianz Future Cloud PlatformThe Allianz Future Cloud Platform is an internal developer platform powering cloud-native insurance microse...5 APIs26.1AgentOpsAgentOps is an observability, evaluation, and debugging platform for AI agents. Its open-source Python SDK ...3 APIs26.0VectorVector is an open source high-performance observability data pipeline from Datadog for collecting, transfor...3 APIs22.8Apache SkyWalkingApache SkyWalking is an open-source APM (Application Performance Monitoring) system that provides monitorin...3 APIs22.6Apache PinotApache Pinot is a real-time distributed OLAP datastore designed to deliver scalable real-time analytics wit...5 APIs20.9Apache MADlibApache MADlib is an open-source library for scalable in-database analytics. It provides data-parallel imple...1 API18.0
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface
Amazon Lookout for MetricsAmazon Lookout for Metrics uses machine learning to automatically detect anomalies in business and operatio...1 published contract0.0WhyLabsWhyLabs was an AI observability platform focused on data and model monitoring for both classical ML and LLM...3 APIs0.0

What Providers Actually Declared

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API Monitoring and ObservabilityAPI ObservabilityAPI Uptime MonitoringAgent-Driven ObservabilityAnomaly DetectionAnomaly detection on metrics to identify unexpected behaviorCost Anomaly DetectionDevOps ObservabilityFull-Stack ObservabilityHVAC System MonitoringInfrastructure MonitoringIoT TelemetryKubernetes ObservabilityLLM TelemetryMetrics CollectionMonitoring and observability across cloud infrastructureNetwork Infrastructure Monitoring and AlertingObservabilityObservability ValidationObservability and DebuggingObservability and FinOpsObservability and MonitoringProduction ObservabilityReal-Time Monitoring And AlertingReplacing in-house retry/signing/observability code for webhooksRevenue Anomaly DetectionReverse Geocoding For TelemetrySLA MonitoringTransmission System Monitoring

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