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, Datadog, Automation Anywhere, New Relic, Amazon CodeGuru Profiler.

Providers

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

Exemplar 6 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 10 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 12 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Amazon DevOps GuruAmazon DevOps Guru is a machine learning-powered service that makes it easy to improve an application's ope...1 published contract53.9Amazon Managed GrafanaAmazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed service for open source Grafana developed in collaboration with G...1 published contract53.9Veritas NetBackupEnterprise-grade data protection and backup solution with comprehensive REST APIs for backup, recovery, and...1 published contract52.8Pure StoragePure Storage is an American publicly traded technology company specializing in all-flash data storage hardw...3 published contracts52.6Oracle Enterprise ManagerOracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) provides a comprehensive management platform for managing Oracle IT infrast...1 published contract52.1APIContextAPIContext (formerly APImetrics) is a synthetic API testing, monitoring and conformance platform. It calls ...6 published contracts51.6Amazon Managed Service for PrometheusAmazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a serverless, Prometheus-compatible monitoring service for contain...1 published contract51.5AWS X-RayAWS X-Ray is a service that helps developers analyze and debug distributed applications by providing end-to...1 published contract50.2Microsoft ProjectMicrosoft Project is a project management software product developed by Microsoft. It provides tools for de...21 APIs45.6Microsoft EdgeAPIs and resources for Microsoft Edge browser development and integration, including the Edge Add-ons API f...8 APIs44.4APIToolkit (Monoscope)APIToolkit (now Monoscope) is an open-source-friendly API observability and monitoring platform that helps ...1 published contract42.8ARGUS EnterpriseARGUS Enterprise is the industry-standard commercial property valuation and cash flow forecasting software ...2 published contracts41.2
Thin 5 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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