10 articles tagged "Api"
Use the Statusfield REST API to check whether your critical dependencies are down before a deploy ships. Works in any CI/CD pipeline — GitHub Actions, shell scripts, or Node.js.
Statusfield now has a read-only REST API and a hosted MCP server, so you can check the status of thousands of vendor status pages from a script — or ask Claude directly. Available on the Hobby plan and up.
Plaid not connecting to banks? Link failing or transactions not syncing? Learn how to check if Plaid is down, which components fail first during an outage (Link, Auth, Transactions, Webhooks), and how to protect your app when Plaid degrades.
Slow API responses are harder to diagnose than failures. The service looks up, but something is wrong. Here's a systematic approach to finding the bottleneck — in your code, your infrastructure, or theirs.
Full outages are easy to detect. Partial degradation — when a service is responding but not reliably — is harder and more common. Here's how to recognize the signals, and why catching them is harder than it looks.
Rate limits are one of the most common production failures caused by third-party APIs. Here's how to detect them early, implement proper backoff, and build systems that degrade gracefully when you hit the ceiling.
When API calls fail, the hardest question is: is it them or is it you? Here's a systematic approach to diagnosing third-party API failures fast, before you waste an hour debugging working code.
Reddit not loading? Getting 'something went wrong' errors? Learn how to check if Reddit is down, what the error messages mean, how outages affect the site vs the API differently, and how to get instant alerts when Reddit has issues.
Auth0 login failing, tokens not issuing, or your authentication flow returning errors? Learn how to check if Auth0 is down right now and what to do when Okta CIC (formerly Auth0) has an outage.
Discord suffered back-to-back major outages between March 25-28, 2026, taking down voice channels, messaging, and the API for hundreds of millions of users. Here's the full incident timeline and what it means for teams that depend on Discord.
