We're building a new monitor type for Site24x7 - one designed for modern web and mobile applications that rely heavily on REST API calls to the function. We'd like to gather feedback from our users, so please post your suggestions below.

Modern web applications consist of web pages that use a large number REST API calls to retrieve data, perform actions, etc. Site24x7's REST API Transaction Monitor will allow you to perform synthetic monitoring of web application workflows without the overhead of running a real browser.

• Step-based monitoring
  You can monitor a web application as a sequence of steps. For example, you can first retrieve a web page, then perform REST API calls with values present in the page. To monitor a mobile application, you can first execute a login web view to extract an authentication token, then use the token for REST API calls.

• Session cookies
  The entire sequence of steps is executed in the same HTTP session, so authentication cookies or other cookie data set by the application will be available in subsequent steps.

• HTTP methods
  You can use the GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, and DELETE HTTP methods to simulate any kind of HTTP request. POST data can be submitted as a form, XML, JSON, or plain text.

• Response validation
  You can validate plain text responses with string checks for keywords or regular expressions. XML and JSON responses can be accurately validated using XPath and JSONPath expressions.

• Variables
  Individual values from responses can be extracted using XPath or JSONPath expressions and saved as custom variables. These variables can then be used to build custom query strings or POST data for subsequent steps.

• OAuth
  You can authenticate Site24x7 to your application using OAuth, and monitoring can be performed using the token granted to Site24x7.

These features are tentative and may change without notice.

The monitor will support the other features from our existing Website Monitor and REST API Monitor as well, such as custom headers, user agent, timeouts, etc. It can be run from all our global monitoring locations, and will support all of Site24x7's administrative features.