API Monitor
Welcome! My name is M Varun, and I'm here to talk about a critical challenge facing modern applications: the silent and often
devastating impact of third-party API dependencies. When essential services like Stripe, Auth0, or Google Maps experience even a
momentary blip, it's not their users who bear the brunt, it's ours. Our API Resilience Monitor is designed to keep your application
running seamlessly, even when these vital dependencies aren't.
This presentation will walk you through how we observe, detect, failover, and provide intelligent advice (powered by AI) to mitigate
these risks, ensuring your users never experience a hitch.
The Problem: Invisible API Dependency
Failures
Modern applications are intrinsically linked to a complex web of third-party APIs. Whether it's payment gateways, mapping services,
authentication providers, or communication platforms, these external dependencies are the backbone of today's digital
experiences. However, their reliability is often out of our direct control, leading to a significant vulnerability.
An outage in just one of these critical APIs can trigger a catastrophic chain reaction: user requests time out, retry storms
overwhelm your systems, and crucial transactions like shopping cart checkouts fail, directly impacting your revenue and user trust.
Traditional monitoring systems, designed for internal infrastructure, are often minutes too late to detect these external API failures,
by which time the damage is already done.
Our Goals: Uninterrupted User Experience
at Scale
Continuous Health Instant Detection (Sub-
Monitoring
Proactive, real-time assessment of all critical API Second)API performance degradation or outages within
Identifying
dependencies to identify issues before they impact users. milliseconds to enable immediate response.
Automated Failover to Uninterrupted UX at
Backups
Seamlessly rerouting traffic to alternate services without Scale
Maintaining a smooth, consistent user experience even
manual intervention, ensuring business continuity. during peak loads and under adverse dependency
conditions.
These are the foundational goals that guided the development of the API Resilience Monitor – and precisely what we've engineered
to deliver.
The One-Line Solution: Observe → Detect →
Failover → Advise (AI)
Observe Detect
Real-time, multi-region probes continuously check API health, Sub-second anomaly detection and immediate identification of
providing a granular, up-to-the-second view of dependency Service Level Objective (SLO) breaches, ensuring no blip goes
performance. unnoticed.
Failover Advise (AI)
Automated, policy-driven failover with Machine Learning (ML) On-device AI (powered by Ollama) provides privacy-first,
ranked backup options, ensuring the most optimal route is always actionable guidance for root cause analysis and proactive system
selected. tuning.
Our platform provides a comprehensive solution to proactively identify issues, intelligently route around them, and offer smart, private advice
—all within your control via local AI.
Architecture at a
Glance The API Resilience Monitor is engineered with a lightweight
Core Components
control plane, designed for effortless deployment and
• Health Prober: Multi-region checks every 10 seconds. management in Dockerized environments. A key design
• Detector: Sub-second anomaly and SLO breach alerts. principle is data privacy and security: absolutely no sensitive
• Failover Manager: Rules-engine combined with ML ranking application or API health data leaves your environment. This
for optimal backup selection. architecture ensures robust performance, minimal overhead,
and complete data sovereignty.
• Edge Router: Leverages Traefik/Nginx for atomic, It's a system designed for high availability and low operational
instantaneous traffic updates. burden, fitting seamlessly into your existing infrastructure.
• Insights: Powered by Ollama, an on-device Large Language
Model (LLM) for private AI-driven advice.
• UI: Built with Svelte and WebSockets for a responsive and
real-time user experience.
• State Management: Utilises Redis for health and circuit
breaker states, all Dockerized for portability.
Feature Focus: Continuous Monitoring &
Instant Detection
Comprehensive API Sub-Second, Noise-Free
Monitoring
Our system actively probes every critical third-party API
Alerting
Unlike traditional monitoring that can take minutes to report an
endpoint your application relies on. These health checks are issue, our detector identifies anomalies and Service Level
performed every 10 seconds from multiple geographic regions, Objective (SLO) breaches in sub-second timeframes. Our
providing a truly global and granular view of API performance. intelligent alerting mechanism is designed to be noise-free,
You get real-time assurance through a "green pulse" indicator, leveraging error budget thresholds and regional context to
signifying that advanced continuous monitoring is actively ensure you only receive actionable alerts.
safeguarding your operations.
In a live demo, you'd observe the steady green pulse. Upon
clicking "🎯 Demo Mode," which simulates a synthetic
degradation, an instant red alert would appear, complete with
immediate context, showcasing our <10s detection capability
versus industry standards.
Feature Focus: Intelligent Automated
Failover
The true power of the API Resilience Monitor lies in its ability to automatically route around API failures, ensuring uninterrupted service. Our
Intelligent Automated Failover mechanism is designed for seamless, human-free operation.
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Configurable Failover ML-Ranked Backup
Rules
Define explicit fallback policies, such as automatically switching from Selection
Beyond static rules, our system employs Machine Learning to
Stripe to PayPal for payment processing, or from Auth0 to Firebase for dynamically rank available backup services based on real-time
authentication, in the event of an outage. metrics like latency, success rates, and even cost implications. This
ensures the most optimal backup is always chosen.
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No Human in the Anti-Flap
Loop
The failover process is fully autonomous. Our system initiates and Thresholds
To prevent erratic switching between services, we incorporate anti-
executes the switch without requiring any manual intervention, flap thresholds, ensuring stability and preventing a "flapping"
drastically reducing Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR). scenario where systems rapidly switch back and forth during
transient issues.
In a demonstration, you would see the Failover Manager in action: triggering a simulated outage would instantly show traffic seamlessly
flipping to the designated backup, confirming continuous service availability.
Feature Focus: AI Insights & Comprehensive
Observability
AI-Powered Insights Integrated Observability
(Ollama)
Our privacy-first AI, powered by Ollama, runs locally on your
Dashboards
The API Resilience Monitor provides a comprehensive, unified user
infrastructure. This on-device LLM provides immediate, intelligent interface with dedicated tabs for deep insights:
guidance without sending sensitive data to external cloud services.
• Dashboard: High-level overview of critical SLOs, error-budget
You can query the AI for:
burn rates, P50/P95 latencies, and regional heatmaps for global
• Root Cause Analysis: Pinpoint the underlying reasons for API performance.
degradation. • API Monitor: Detailed real-time data for individual API
• Tuning Recommendations: Suggestions for optimising your API • endpoints.
Failover Manager: Live status and history of all failover events
calls or fallback policies. and configured policies.
• Rollback Tips: Advice on safely reverting changes if an issue is • AI Chat: Your interactive console for AI queries and insights.
identified post-deployment.
Imagine asking the AI, "Why are retries spiking in US-East?" and
receiving actionable steps instantly, all within the secure confines
of your environment. This holistic approach ensures complete
visibility and intelligent assistance in one intuitive UI.
Impact & Key
Differentiators
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Guaranteed Zero Revenue
Uptime
Achieve 99.99% application uptime, even in the face of Loss
Automatic failover mechanisms ensure continuous business
unpredictable third-party provider incidents. operations, safeguarding critical transactions and preventing
revenue leakage.
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MTTR in Seconds All-in-One
Drastically reduce Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR) from hours to Solution
Consolidated platform for monitoring, detection, intelligent
mere seconds, ensuring rapid issue resolution. failover, and AI-driven insights, simplifying your resilience
strategy.
Our solution stands out with sub-second detection capabilities versus industry-standard minutes, offering a developer-friendly setup and a
beautiful, intuitive UI. For technical leaders, this means unparalleled uptime and robust revenue protection. For developers, it translates to
simple adoption and reduced operational burden.
Live Demo Plan & Next
Steps
Live Demo Overview (60-90 Looking Ahead: Future
seconds)
1.Dashboard Status: Start with the green dashboard,
Enhancements
• Cost-Aware Routing: Optimising failover decisions based
confirming active monitoring. on API usage costs.
1.Simulated Degradation: Initiate "🎯 Demo Mode" to • Canary Failback: Implementing staged failback for even
trigger a synthetic Stripe API degradation. greater control and safety.
1.Instant Alert & SLO Breach: Observe the immediate red • On-Call Webhooks: Integration with on-call management
alert and a clear SLO breach notification. systems for immediate incident notification.
1.Automatic Failover: Witness traffic seamlessly failing • Incident Timeline: A comprehensive timeline view for post-
over from Stripe to PayPal, with success rates quickly incident analysis and reporting.
recovering.
1.AI Insights: Ask the AI for root cause analysis and receive
Today, we've demonstrated the core loop of API Resilience
actionable tips, such as recommendations for retry/backoff
Monitor, proving its immediate value in ensuring uptime and
strategies or regional pinning.
safeguarding your business. Our next steps focus on further
1.Graceful Failback: After stability is restored, demonstrate optimising cost efficiency and enhancing collaboration
the controlled and safe failback to the primary Stripe capabilities. Do you have any questions?
service.
