API monitoring and alerting in Rest API - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to send a GET request to check API status.

Rest API

curl -X [1] https://api.example.com/status

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AGET

BPOST

CPUT

DDELETE

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Common Mistakes

Using POST instead of GET to fetch data.

The GET method is used to retrieve data from the API, such as its status.

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medium

Complete the code to set a header for JSON content type in the API request.

Rest API

curl -H "Content-Type: [1]" https://api.example.com/data

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Aapplication/json

Btext/html

Capplication/xml

Dtext/plain

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Common Mistakes

Using 'text/html' instead of 'application/json' for JSON data.

APIs commonly use 'application/json' to indicate JSON data format in requests.

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hard

Fix the error in the alert condition to trigger when API response time exceeds 500ms.

Rest API

if response_time [1] 500:
    send_alert()

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A==

B<

C>

D<=

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Common Mistakes

Using '<' instead of '>' causing alerts on fast responses.

The alert should trigger when response time is greater than 500 milliseconds.

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hard

Fill both blanks to create a monitoring script that checks API status code and alerts if not 200.

Rest API

if status_code [1] 200 and status_code [2] 0:
    send_alert()

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A!=

B==

C>

D<

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Common Mistakes

Using '==' instead of '!=' causing no alerts on errors.

The script alerts if status code is not 200 and greater than 0 (valid error code).

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hard

Fill all three blanks to create a JSON alert payload with API name, status, and response time.

Rest API

{"api": "[1]", "status": [2], "response_time_ms": [3]

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AUserService

Bstatus_code

Cresponse_time

DOrderService

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Common Mistakes

Putting variables in quotes causing them to be treated as strings.

The JSON payload includes the API name as a string, and numeric status code and response time variables.