Centralized application programming interface monitoring tool

1. A method of providing performance data for a plurality of application programming interfaces (APIs), comprising:

displaying, by a computer system, a dashboard including visual indicators of a quantifiable health metric regarding performance status for each of the APIs and a search bar configured for searching for a particular API of the displayed APIs;

searching, by the computer system, for the particular API of displayed APIs using the search bar to perform a syntax search to compare a keyword indicative of the particular API to names of all the APIs displayed in the dashboard;

obtaining, by the computer system, one or more various measurements of performance of the APIs associated with the performance status from stubs comprising virtual API interfaces coupled to the computer system; and

initiating, by the computer system, a live API call to a running application on one or more computing devices after searching for the particular API,

wherein the stubs are configured to convert the live API call to an HTTP call.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

obtaining, by the computer system, one or more various measurements of performance of the APIs associated with the performance status from stubs comprising virtual API interfaces coupled to the computer system; and

saving, by the computer system, the one or more various measurements of performance in a database such that the one or more various measurements of performance are linked with each respective stub and include a date and time stamp.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining the quantifiable health metric for each API that is indicative of the performance status for each API from multicolored lights indicative of the health of each API.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the health metric is either weighted or non-weighted.

5. A method of providing performance data for a plurality of application programming interfaces (APIs), comprising:

displaying, by a computer system, a dashboard including visual indicators of a quantifiable health metric regarding performance status for each of the APIs and a search bar configured for searching for a particular API of the displayed APIs;

searching, by the computer system, for the particular API of displayed APIs using the search bar to perform a syntax search to compare a keyword indicative of the particular API to names of all the APIs displayed in the dashboard; and

determining the quantifiable health metric for each API that is indicative of the performance status for each API from multicolored lights indicative of the health of each API,

wherein the health metric is either weighted or non-weighted, and

wherein a first color of the multicolor lights indicates that the API has failed, a second color of the multicolor lights indicates that the API is fully functional, and a third color of the multicolor lights indicates that the API has experienced a problem but is still functional.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving, by the computer system, a selection of the one of the APIs.

7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising displaying, by the computer system, parameters of the one of the APIs.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein a service provider at least one of creates, maintains, and supports the computer system.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the keyword is indicative of a particular API to all fields of JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) objects that have been used to define the APIs.

10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising initiating, by the computer system, a live API call to a running application on one or more computing devices after the comparison of the keyword indicative of the particular API to all fields of JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) objects that have been used to define the APIs.

11. A computer program product comprising computer readable program instructions stored on non-transitory computer readable storage medium, the computer readable program instructions causing a computing system to:

display, on a graphic user interface (GUI) of the computing system, a dashboard including a performance status for each of a plurality of APIs on one or more computing devices operably connected to a network and a search bar configured for searching for a particular API of the displayed APIs;

search for the particular API of the displayed APIs using the search bar and a search technique configured to compare a keyword indicative of the particular API to names of all the APIs displayed in the dashboard; and

select a method of the particular one of the APIs, using the GUI, to initiate a live API call from the GUI using the selected method,

wherein the particular one of the APIs is a running application that returns data for transmitting data between software applications on the one or more computing devices.

12. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein the computer readable program instructions further cause the computing system to:

obtain one or more various measurements of performance of the APIs associated with the performance status from stubs comprising virtual API interfaces coupled to the computing system; and

save the one or more various measurements of performance in a database such that the one or more various measurements of performance are linked with each respective stub and include a date and time stamp.

13. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein the computer readable program instructions further cause the computing system to determine a quantifiable health metric for each API that is indicative of the performance status for each API.

14. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the health metric is either weighted or non-weighted.

15. The computer program product of claim 14 , wherein the performance status for each API is shown as a visual indicator of the quantifiable health metric determined for each API using multicolored lights.

16. A computer program product comprising computer readable program instructions stored on non-transitory computer readable storage medium, the computer readable program instructions causing a computing system to:

display a dashboard including performance status for each of a plurality of APIs;

detect an input on the dashboard that initiates a comparison of a keyword indicative of a particular API to all fields of JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) objects that have been used to define the APIs; and

initiate a live API call to a running application on the one or more computing devices after the comparison of the keyword indicative of the particular API to all fields of JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) objects that have been used to define the APIs.

17. The computer program product of claim 16 , wherein the computer readable program instructions further cause the computing system to display a search bar configured for searching for the particular API of the displayed APIs.

18. The computer program product of claim 16 , wherein the computer readable program instructions further cause the computing system to search the one of the APIs and to open an additional window displaying a performance status of the one of the APIs as of a particular time.

19. The computer program product of claim 18 , wherein the computer readable program instructions further cause the computing system to navigate through time to display predetermined measurements of performance at different instances in time in the additional window.