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How to run a monitor with the Postman API

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David Espi Hernandez
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1,114
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English
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Summary

Postman Monitors offer a way to continuously oversee the health and functioning of APIs through various endpoints—monitors and webhooks—which can be integrated into workflows such as CI/CD systems or API monitoring dashboards. The monitors endpoint allows users to create, update, delete, and run monitors synchronously, providing detailed run information, while the webhooks endpoint facilitates running collections without requiring an environment and operates based on dynamically posted data, albeit without returning run information. This blog post also demonstrates how to use the Postman API to run monitors via GitHub actions, which triggers these monitors during specific events like pull requests, allowing for dynamic and flexible API testing within software development processes. The integration of Postman Monitors into GitHub actions exemplifies how API monitoring can be automated, enhancing the efficiency and reliability of development workflows.

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