Use Case

Application Performance & Optimization

Finding and fixing latency and throughput problems.

37 providers 126 APIs 24 declared variants

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

37 API providers on the APIs.io network offer application performance & optimization. The highest-rated are Dynatrace, New Relic, Google Search Console, Umami, Amazon X-Ray.

Providers

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

Exemplar 3 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 7 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 16 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Oracle Enterprise ManagerOracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) provides a comprehensive management platform for managing Oracle IT infrast...1 API54.0Amazon Compute OptimizerAmazon Compute Optimizer analyzes the configuration and utilization metrics of your AWS resources and provi...1 API53.9Amazon DevOps GuruAmazon DevOps Guru is a machine learning-powered service that makes it easy to improve an application's ope...1 API53.8Amazon Global AcceleratorAmazon Global Accelerator is a networking service that improves the performance and availability of applica...1 API53.7SolarWindsA collection of APIs provided by SolarWinds for IT infrastructure management, monitoring, and observability.5 APIs53.6Amazon Managed GrafanaAmazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed service for open source Grafana developed in collaboration with G...1 API53.4Amazon Managed Service for PrometheusAmazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a serverless, Prometheus-compatible monitoring service for contain...1 API51.8Veritas NetBackupEnterprise-grade data protection and backup solution with comprehensive REST APIs for backup, recovery, and...1 API50.9AWS X-RayAWS X-Ray is a service that helps developers analyze and debug distributed applications by providing end-to...1 API49.6Pure StoragePure Storage is an American publicly traded technology company specializing in all-flash data storage hardw...3 APIs47.3SplunkSplunk is a platform for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data via a web-style in...1 API46.7APIToolkit (Monoscope)APIToolkit (now Monoscope) is an open-source-friendly API observability and monitoring platform that helps ...1 API46.3Microsoft EdgeAPIs and resources for Microsoft Edge browser development and integration, including the Edge Add-ons API f...8 APIs44.2ARGUS EnterpriseARGUS Enterprise is the industry-standard commercial property valuation and cash flow forecasting software ...2 APIs43.7ZipkinZipkin is an open source distributed tracing system for gathering timing data to troubleshoot latency probl...1 API41.7Microsoft ProjectMicrosoft Project is a project management software product developed by Microsoft. It provides tools for de...16 APIs41.6
Thin 6 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 MonitoringResource Capacity PlanningSEO Performance MonitoringWebsite Performance MonitoringWorkforce Capacity Planning

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