How do you monitor external APIs your app depends on?

Hey 👋

I’m doing some research on how small SaaS teams handle outages or slowness in external APIs (Stripe, OpenAI, Twilio, SendGrid, etc.).

I’ve seen teams:

• find out via customer complaints
• rely on status pages
• or overload Datadog with custom checks

I’m curious how you handle this.

I made a short (2-minute) anonymous form to understand the pain points:

👉 https://forms.gle/6YFMMpGM6z1hKhM29

If you don’t want to click links, I’d also love to hear in comments:

• How do you currently detect dependency outages?
• Has this ever caused a real incident for you?

Thanks — appreciate any insights 🙏