API Requests

Procedure

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click on the left and choose Management & Governance > Application Performance Management.
3. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Web Monitoring > API Requests. The API request performance data is displayed.
   • API Failure Rate Trend: displays the number of API calls, proportion of slow requests, and API failure rate. Move the cursor to the graph. The detailed metric data is displayed.
   • Avg. Call Time Trend: displays the API call queuing time, connection time, time to first byte (TTFB), and download time. Move the cursor to the graph. The detailed metric data is displayed.
   • API Request List: displays the API request links, total number of requests, request duration, number of slow requests, proportion of slow requests, number of errors, and error rate.
     • Enter API in the search box and click to view the API requests that meet the search criteria.
     • Click in the upper right corner of the list and select the target metric data.
     • By default, API requests are sorted by Total Requests in descending order.
   • Status Code Distribution: displays API request status codes, number of requests with different status codes returned, and proportion of those requests. Move the cursor to the ring. The number of requests with a certain status code returned is displayed.

     Click in the upper right corner of the list and select the target metric data.

4. Drill down to the details of the API request list and status code distribution.
   • Drill down to the details of the API request list.
     1. Click an API in the API Request List column. The total number of requests, number of errors, error rate, number of slow requests, proportion of slow requests, and average success call time are displayed.
        1. Specified API Traces: displays specified API traces. The displayed metrics include the report time, URL, API, device ID, UID, tag, wait time, connection time, time to first byte (TTFB), download time, and API request status.
        2. Click in the upper right corner of the list and select the target metric data.
        3. Enter the search criteria in the search box and click to view the traces that meet the search criteria.
        4. By default, specified API traces are sorted by report time in descending order.
        5. In the specified API trace list, click Analyze in the Operation column to go to the tracing page.

           If the Analyze button is unavailable, move the cursor to it to check the possible causes.

     2. API Failure Rate Trend: displays the number of API calls and the API failure rate.

        Table 1 API request parameters

        Parameter	Description
        UV	Number of visitors who access the website. If a user accesses the site multiple times in a day, only one UV will be counted.
        PV	Page view (PV), which is the number of times a page is opened or refreshed.
        Avg. Load Time	Average page load time.
        JS Errors	Number of JS errors.
        Slow APIs	Slow APIs refer to APIs with load time longer than 1,000 ms. Slow API proportion = Number of slow APIs/Total number of APIs
        API Success Rate	API success rate = Number of APIs that are successfully called/Total number of APIs
        Queuing Time	API call queuing time, connection time, TTFB, and download time.
        Connection Time	Connection time of an API call.
        Time to First Byte	Duration from the time when a request is sent to the time when the first response byte is received.
        Download Time	Download time of an API call.
        API	API request link.
        Total Requests	Total number of API requests.
        Duration	API request duration.
        Slow Requests	Number of slow API requests.
        Slow Request Proportion	Proportion of slow API requests.
        Errors	Number of API request errors.
        Error Rate	Error rate of API requests.
        Status Code	Status code that is returned when an API is called.
        Requests with This Status Code	Proportion of API requests with a certain status code returned.
        Avg. Success Call Time	Average time for calling an API.
        Reported	Time when an API trace was reported.
        URL	URL of an API trace.
        Device ID	Device ID.
        Wait Time	Wait time of an API trace.
        Connection Time	Connection time of an API trace.
        API Request Status	Options: Normal, Slow, and Error.
        UID	User ID.
        Tag	User tag.

   • Drill down to the details about request status code distribution.
     1. Click a status code in the Status Code column. The metrics such as Total Requests, Errors, Error Rate, Slow Requests, Slow Request Proportion, and Avg. Success Call Time of the status code are displayed.

        Table 2 Status code parameters

        Parameter	Description
        Total Requests	Total number of API requests.
        Errors	Number of API request errors.
        Error Rate	Error rate of API requests.
        Slow Requests	Number of slow API requests.
        Slow Request Proportion	Proportion of slow API requests.
        Avg. Success Call Time	Average time for calling an API.

        1. Specified API Traces: displays specified API traces. The displayed metrics include the report time, URL, API, device ID, UID, tag, wait time, connection time, time to first byte (TTFB), download time, and API request status.
        2. Click in the upper right corner of the list and select the target metric data.
        3. In the specified API trace list, click Analyze in the Operation column to go to the tracing page.

           If the Analyze button is unavailable, move the cursor to it to check the possible causes.

           Figure 1 Reason why no data is collected
           
     2. API summary list
        1. Click an API in the API column. The metrics such as the report time, URL, API, device ID, UID, tag, wait time, connection time, time to first byte (TTFB), download time, and API request status are displayed.

           Table 3 Parameters about a specified API trace

           Parameter	Description
           Reported	Time when an API trace was reported.
           URL	URL of an API trace.
           API	API request link.
           User ID	User ID.
           Wait Time	Wait time of an API trace.
           Connection Time	Connection time of an API trace.
           Time to First Byte	Duration from the time when a request is sent to the time when the first response byte is received.
           Download Time	Download time of an API call.
           API Request Status	Options: Normal, Slow, and Error.

        2. On the Request Statistics xxx; Status Code xxx page, click Analyze in the Operation column to go to the tracing page.

           If the Analyze button is unavailable, move the cursor to it to check the possible causes.