How do you monitor and manage API performance at scale?

Wowza Developer Dojo
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I’m exploring ways to improve API reliability and performance monitoring, especially in systems with high traffic (like video streaming platforms).

Would love to hear:

What monitoring tools are you using (e.g., Prometheus, Postman, API Gateway logs)?
How do you handle downtime alerts and performance logging?

I can share what we’ve implemented as well (rate limiting, gateway config, uptime monitoring) if helpful.
Looking forward to your thoughts!

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Hello,

While we can’t share specific details about Wowza’s internal monitoring, I can say that best practices generally include:

  • As you stated use metrics-based monitoring tools (like Prometheus, Datadog, New Relic or Grafana) to track latency, error rates, and throughput. If you use AWS or similar services, ApiGateway or general Cloudwatch logs with alerts are a viable option too of course.

  • Setting up alerting systems for downtime or degraded performance through integrations like PagerDuty or any other similar services

Regards,
Bernd Backhaus
Wowza Support
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