API Testing: Top 5 Tools & Methodologies
API testing has many moving parts, and in this post you'll be presented with the 5 most essential tools and methodologies.
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Implementing a Hybrid Kong Konnect Data Plane in Amazon ECS
Application Modernization projects often require their workloads to run on multiple platforms which requires a hybrid model. Kong Konnect is an API lifecycle management platform delivered as a service. The Control Plane, responsible for admin tasks, is hosted in the cloud by Kong. The Data Plane, totally based on Kong Gateway, can be deployed across multiple environments including VMs, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
API linting based on custom rules
At present, API definitions are validated against the default OpenAPI schema upon import and when being edited in the publisher portal. In certain scenarios, such as the validation of fields like email or name, a custom validation approach may be required. This implementation allows administrators to enforce custom rules for API validation, helping to standardize and keep API definitions clean by validating against a specified set of custom rules inside WSO2 API Manager.
ELK Based On analytics with WSO2 Micro Integrator
Analytics is a main part of any deployment which enables the Monitoring of the availability, performance and usage of it’s components. WSO2 Micro Integrator has introduced operational analytics on top of ELK stack which is one of the leading analytics solution in the market. With this solution, a user can monitor the usage of each synapse component individually and identify issues, bottlenecks and improve the reliability and performance of the integration flow.
OpenTelemetry based Distributed Tracing for WSO2 API Manager
Tracing is one of the three pillars of observability. Tracing an API call in WSO2 API Manager is important to observe, identify possible bottlenecks in an API invocation path, and debug them. WSO2 API Manager facilitates tracing API invocation paths and publishing the traces based on the OpenTelemetry standard, using multiple tracers, namely: OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), Jaeger, Zipkin, Log & Custom Tracer. This demo outlines important concepts of OpenTelemetry based distributed tracing in WSO2 API Manager, followed by a demonstration of publishing traces using the OTLP Tracer to Elastic APM, when invoking a sample API.
API policies export and import support for WSO2 API Manager
WSO2 APICTL allows users to perform API related tasks without any UI navigations. As an improvement, now WSO2 APICTL allows users to do common API Policy and Rate Limiting Policy related operations without any UI accesses and accelerates the CI/CD tasks related to the Policy Management. From this feature, it now allows to list, export, import and delete operations on both the common API Policies and Rate Limiting policies in multiple ways in accordance with the commands & their flags introduced.
OpenTelemetry based Distributed Tracing for WSO2 Micro Integrator
Tracing is one of the three pillars of observability. Tracing artifacts of WSO2 Micro Integrator is important to observe, identify possible bottlenecks in a message flow, and debug them. WSO2 Micro Integrator facilitates tracing message flows and publishing the traces based on the OpenTelemetry standard, using multiple tracers, namely: OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), Jaeger, Zipkin, Log & Custom Tracer. This screencast outlines important concepts of OpenTelemetry based distributed tracing in WSO2 Micro Integrator, followed by a demonstration of publishing traces using the OTLP Tracer to New Relic APM, when invoking a simple API.
How to Get Data Out of ERP Systems with APIs
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are designed to streamline business operations by centralizing data across an organization. However, extracting and utilizing this data can be a complex and time-consuming process. One solution to this problem is the use of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), which allow for seamless data integration between ERP systems and other software applications.
Introducing Kong Enterprise 2.8 Long Term Support
Kong is proud to announce our first-ever Long Term Support (LTS) version of Kong Enterprise. Kong Enterprise 2.8 LTS will be supported up to March 25, 2025. LTS is an industry term for a software release that is supported for a longer period of time than other releases. LTS versions are popular because once users are on an LTS version, they can rest assured that this version will continue to receive technical support and security updates during the LTS period.
Extending SmartBear's Modern Developer Focused Observability Capabilities
Today, we are very excited to announce the acquisition of Aspecto, an OpenTelemetry (OTel) pioneer whose capabilities will further extend SmartBear’s modern, developer-focused observability capabilities. Aspecto’s solution discovers modern microservice based architectures and visualizes all the real-time interactions between services and APIs through advanced distributed tracing capabilities.