Use Case

Application Performance & Optimization

Finding and fixing latency and throughput problems.

38 providers 138 APIs 25 declared variants

Profiling and tuning running systems — APM traces, slow query and bottleneck analysis, capacity headroom, caching, and CDN and delivery optimization.

38 API providers on the APIs.io network offer application performance & optimization. The highest-rated are Dynatrace, Amazon CodeGuru Profiler, Automation Anywhere, New Relic, Google Search Console.

Providers

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

Exemplar 6 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 8 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 16 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
SplunkSplunk is a platform for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data via a web-style in...1 API54.0Amazon DevOps GuruAmazon DevOps Guru is a machine learning-powered service that makes it easy to improve an application's ope...1 API53.4Amazon Compute OptimizerAmazon Compute Optimizer analyzes the configuration and utilization metrics of your AWS resources and provi...1 API53.2Oracle Enterprise ManagerOracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) provides a comprehensive management platform for managing Oracle IT infrast...1 API52.6Veritas NetBackupEnterprise-grade data protection and backup solution with comprehensive REST APIs for backup, recovery, and...1 API52.4SolarWindsA collection of APIs provided by SolarWinds for IT infrastructure management, monitoring, and observability.5 APIs52.2Amazon Managed GrafanaAmazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed service for open source Grafana developed in collaboration with G...1 API51.9Amazon Managed Service for PrometheusAmazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a serverless, Prometheus-compatible monitoring service for contain...1 API50.4APIContextAPIContext (formerly APImetrics) is a synthetic API testing, monitoring and conformance platform. It calls ...6 APIs50.2AWS X-RayAWS X-Ray is a service that helps developers analyze and debug distributed applications by providing end-to...1 API49.1APIToolkit (Monoscope)APIToolkit (now Monoscope) is an open-source-friendly API observability and monitoring platform that helps ...1 API44.5Microsoft EdgeAPIs and resources for Microsoft Edge browser development and integration, including the Edge Add-ons API f...8 APIs42.8ARGUS EnterpriseARGUS Enterprise is the industry-standard commercial property valuation and cash flow forecasting software ...2 APIs42.3Microsoft ProjectMicrosoft Project is a project management software product developed by Microsoft. It provides tools for de...21 APIs42.0ZipkinZipkin is an open source distributed tracing system for gathering timing data to troubleshoot latency probl...1 API41.0AppDynamicsAppDynamics, now part of Cisco, is an application performance monitoring (APM) and observability platform t...9 APIs39.3
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
Emerging 4 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface

What Providers Actually Declared

This use case is a canonical term. These are the free-text strings providers wrote in their own apis.yml that map onto it.

API Performance MonitoringAPI Performance OptimizationApplication PerformanceApplication Performance ManagementApplication Performance MonitoringApplication Performance OptimizationBot Performance MonitoringCampaign Performance OptimizationCapacity PlanningCloud Application Performance MonitoringContinuous ProfilingDatabase Query OptimizationEquipment Performance MonitoringFleet Capacity PlanningGlobal Application PerformanceInfrastructure Capacity PlanningOLAP Query OptimizationPerformance MonitoringPerformance OptimizationPortfolio Performance MonitoringProduction Performance OptimizationResource Capacity PlanningSEO Performance MonitoringWebsite Performance MonitoringWorkforce Capacity Planning

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