Runscope Review

Overview

Runscope was founded on the premise that it should be easy to rely on a web service API in a web or mobile application. The company’s team of API, developer experience, and infrastructure experts help to build systems that support the application development lifecycle. Runscope presents a collection of automated API testing, tracking, and robust debugging tools to empower testers and developers to swiftly resolve API problems.   

Runscope’s uptime monitoring feature immediately notifies you when an API goes down. You can identify and troubleshoot the issue before support tickets begin to pour in. The software provides visibility on API performance to enable you to stay on top of concerns that could lead to outages. With the data validation capability, you can make certain that the content and structure of your API calls are delivering the data expected by your customers and you.

Benefits

Keep Your Team on the Same Page

You shouldn’t be learning about breakages and downtime from your customers. Runscope provides support to popular notification tools like webbooks, email, HipChat, Slack, PagerDuty, and others.

View API Health at a Glance

Track service performance proactively to swiftly identify and debug API issues. Use the daily API performance report and API dashboard to stay on top of temporary failures before they bloom into major concerns.

Monitor Complex APIs

Make sure that the content and structure of your API calls are up to your expectations. Flexible and robust assertions give you full control over the definition of a winning API call.

Validate Your API Processes

Produce basic monitors with lively data for even complex use cases. Go beyond plain string matching and develop API validations without code and utilize them across local dev, production, and staging environments.

Work across the Full Development Lifecycle

With Runscope, your team can effortlessly produce monitors for even intricate APIs. Build monitoring seamlessly into your workflow to notify the concerned team automatically the instant problems happen. Use the Runscope API for in-house tools and custom integrations.

Centralize Visibility on API Performance

SaaS API monitoring consolidates all your API validations in one accessible system. Re-utilize your monitors for each phase of the development lifecycle and perform checks against production, staging, and local environments. Even persons not in your team can assist to resolve API issues with shareable results without requiring you to share your credentials.

Product Features

Pricing

Small Plan

• $79/month
• 250,000 requests
• 5 team members
• 16 global locations
• Up to 1-minute schedules
• Email and webhook notifications
• Slack, DataDog, PagerDuty, etc.
• Daily performance report
• Open API (Swagger) import
• Continuous integration support

Medium Plan

• $199/month
• 1 million requests
• 20 team members

Includes all features of the Small Plan, plus:

• Custom script libraries
• Reusable script snippets
• Enhanced response timings
• Priority support with live chat

Large Plan

• $599/month
• 5 million requests
• 50 team members

Includes all features of the Medium Plan, plus:

• SAML single sign-on
• Client certificates

Premier Plan

• Contact the vendor for pricing

Includes all standard features, plus:

• Premium support
• Splunk integration
• Secrets management
• Service level agreement
• Purchase orders & invoicing
• Higher request volumes
• Large or multiple teams
• Dedicated account manager