The latest articles on DEV Community by Kramer Balázs (@kramerbala). https://dev.to/kramerbala https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F1368495%2F33c794d6-d76e-42e3-9290-120c2700149a.png https://dev.to/kramerbala en Kramer Balázs Mon, 05 Jan 2026 23:48:06 +0000 https://dev.to/kramerbala/how-do-you-monitor-external-apis-your-app-depends-on-30mg https://dev.to/kramerbala/how-do-you-monitor-external-apis-your-app-depends-on-30mg <p>Hey 👋</p> <p>I’m doing some research on how small SaaS teams handle outages or slowness in external APIs (Stripe, OpenAI, Twilio, SendGrid, etc.).</p> <p>I’ve seen teams:</p> <ul> <li>find out via customer complaints</li> <li>rely on status pages</li> <li>or overload Datadog with custom checks</li> </ul> <p>I’m curious how you handle this.</p> <p>I made a short (2-minute) anonymous form to understand the pain points:</p> <p>👉 <a href="https://forms.gle/6YFMMpGM6z1hKhM29" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://forms.gle/6YFMMpGM6z1hKhM29</a></p> <p>If you don’t want to click links, I’d also love to hear in comments:</p> <ul> <li>How do you currently detect dependency outages?</li> <li>Has this ever caused a real incident for you?</li> </ul> <p>Thanks — appreciate any insights 🙏</p> api saas monitoring automation