What so difficult about APIs?

APIs can sometimes be difficult to use or understand, especially for developers who are new to working with them.

Increasingly, companies are investing in tools to better manage and monitor APIs. This allows them to get a better understanding of their APIs and identify potential issues more quickly. Better visibility into APIs also means that companies can better predict how they will perform in the future and make any necessary adjustments as needed.

Importance of API observability

One of the biggest trends in the API space is the increased use of developer experience monitoring (DEM) tools and services that help make it easier to understand how APIs are being used and troubleshoot any issues that come up. These developer experience tools are designed to give developers the information they need to optimize their app or site and minimize the risk of any performance issues.

Another trend in the API space is the increased use of analytics and measurement tools that allow companies to better understand how their apps are performing and how they can be improved. These tools help companies better understand their users so that they can provide a better user experience overall.

Treblle 2.0 - a best bet for a perfect API in 2023.

Treblle has been around for a year now. We've onboarded more than 13 thousand developers, and we are building a community around the platform. This is very important because it enables us to listen to suggestions, have meetings and receive feedback.

We've used all of that and worked hard for the past year to bring Treblle 2.0 to life. Our core features proved to be super useful to our users and what we did with v2.0 is expanding on what works and adding new features that complement existing ones.

As you may already know Treblle's core features are:

API monitoring - Real-time requests 😉

• API monitoring designed for most people not just your DevOps friends
• More seriously, this feature shows you all the requests on your API alongside metadata about HTTP methods, response codes, authentication and API performance.

API analytics that means something to you 📊

• You can finally see who your users are and where they’re coming from in real-time
• This feature allows you to detect and prevent user-specific problems before they get out of control
• You can quickly identify where and what your API is being used for

Treblle API Score - the new way to monitor your API 🔥

• This is a unique one and it helps you and the team build better APIs
• See how your API is performing compared to industry standards and best practices
• Understand how you’re team is building APIs on a code and infrastructure level

Native desktop and mobile apps 📱

• Get instant alerts on your phone when something goes wrong
• Optimized and built natively for every platform with minimum CPU and RAM usage
• Detects all errors in real-time, not just 500 and 404
• Replay any previous request from any user with just 1 click even on mobile phones

New features with Treblle 2.0

There are a lot of new features that came with Treblle 2.0 we don’t have time to go through all of them but we’ll point out the most important ones.

Alongside adding new features Treblle has a completely new look. We have a new website to go along with it and yes, we also have docs! We have also refreshed how pricing works, so now you get 250K requests on our free forever plan. We wanted to make sure you have enough time and space to test out Treblle and see the value it can bring you.

So, what else is new?

👉 Customizable dashboards

A completely customizable API dashboard gives you and your team all the insights you might need. From graphs that show requests per day/month/week, to a list of top countries your users come from to your most popular endpoints. It's literally a drag-and-drop. Just click on what you like and it’s on your dashboard. No SQL queries, no complicated steps, no fuss…

👉 Data Galore

We know that the key to understanding anything on your API is having the correct data. That’s why we added a lot more data every step of the way. We now have over 40 data points that are easily readable and simple to understand.

Starting from projects where you now get a graph of all the requests in the past 7 days, number of problems, endpoints, requests per minute and more.

Moving down to the requests where you now see explanations of every response code and a list of common best practices for each of them. For single requests, we added even more context so now you can see all requests that happened before and after the current one or requests made by the same user.

👉 Flows

We added a completely new feature called flows that allows you to group API requests into various flows that help explain complicated business processes on your API. Just pick the requests you want, add them to a flow, explain what they do and share them with anyone.

👉 Developer focused

You called us over to the dark side so we came and ate all the cookies. One of the biggest features we wanted to see was :drumroll: dark mode. Now it’s here to save our eyes : ).

On top of that, we’ve built a new documentation portal that explains every feature of Treblle as well as every SDK integration. We'll let our DOCS do the talking.

👉 More control

You can now mute projects, and transfer the ownership of a project to someone else. You can add aliases to endpoints (which comes in handy to managers and other stakeholders that don't work with the API every day), exclude them from docs and control their endpoint groups. When sharing requests you can select when they expire or delete them if need be. All in all we’ve added fine-grain controls in every aspect of the platform.

👉 Windows app support

To complete our native app lineup we now fully support Windows devices with our native app. This means you can test APIs even while you’re working locally as well as access all the features of Treblle directly from your device.

You can read the whole blog post about Treblle 2.0 here ;)