“Enterprises have spent upwards of $25 million on resources and custom tooling to try to manage their software delivery, teams and DevOps ecosystem,”

said Kumar Chivukula, co-founder and CEO of Opsera.

“Our DevOps Flow platform provides leaders with visibility into the velocity, productivity, and governance of their engineering teams, and this saves money and moves their company’s digital transformation objectives forward”,

he continued.

Up to 90% of engineers’ time is spent maintaining pipelines with custom scripts or a black box solution. This is what limits engineers to a vendor solution and custom integrations. They spend as much time managing DevOps as they do designing.

Existing DevOps solutions fail because they are point solutions that solve a specific function but do not provide a platform solution for the entire organization.

DevOps Flow platform accomplishes three things:

– Gives enterprise teams choice and flexibility with their tools and automation while bringing existing internal tools into one tool management system.
– Accelerates enterprise DevOps maturity through automating pipelines, with security and quality gates built in to keep fast moving teams productive.
– Gives leaders visibility into their teams’ performance with insights into metrics all in one place so smart decisions can be made fast.

The service is $100 per year and enables developers to keep track of the performance from mainstream API providers such as Netflix, Slack, and Microsoft, to more specialist and smaller vendors. David O’Neill, CEO of APImetrics, said;

“APIs have become an essential part of the tech landscape, with more and more critical and essential services being delivered through them, from banking to healthcare, to the weather forecast and mapping services. But there are no agreed standards to measure the performance or service quality of what is being delivered by these APIs. Monitoring has mostly fallen to internal engineering teams, and their efforts often have little relation to the real-world experience of consumers or the service-level implications of even the smallest API hiccup.”

Developers can benefit from thematic collections of APIs to determine what ones have provided the best historical performance. O’Neill also added

“People are buying, integrating, and using services without a standard way to agree if they are working effectively, or even if they are getting what they pay for. If you are building your own product experience or business around a third-party API, your success relies upon the performance of that API. Better be confident it works well.”

APImetrics believes that its service can remove the uncertainty around API performance in a way that’s unique and at a scale that would be difficult for any individual or business to replicate. Nick Denny, Vice President of Engineering at APImetrics, commented:

“What we’ve seen from doing this for a large number of customers and developers is that while businesses are testing their own services and monitoring their in-house technology stacks, they find it very hard to monitor real-world service availability in a repeatable way. We’ve simplified that task and made something any user can understand while still providing essential data for engineering teams. It’s really a game-changer for how we think about service quality.”

The free version of API.expert provides high-level data for the previous week and month, as well as the current status. Developers who upgrade to the new premium version gain access to more detailed metrics, including historical data, details on individual API endpoints, and daily and weekly performance alerts.