API observability for data insights
Blog post from New Relic
APIs are crucial for modern application design, providing observability data that can be analyzed to monitor and improve application performance. This blog post explores the use of New Relic's Flex integration tool to seamlessly collect and analyze API data, offering insights into application health through metrics, events, logs, and traces. The Flex tool's integration capabilities are demonstrated using a web-based API from Pi-hole, showcasing how JSON data can be formatted and visualized in New Relic to enhance network performance insights. While API monitoring focuses on real-time metrics tracking, API observability provides a deeper understanding of API behavior and interactions, enabling proactive issue detection. New Relic offers real-time visibility, interactive dashboards, proactive monitoring through AI alerts, and advanced features like distributed tracing and error tracking, making it an optimal tool for enhancing API observability. The post encourages users to explore API data within New Relic, highlighting the platform's user-friendly interface and its potential to drive business success through improved API performance.