We performed a comparison between NGINX API Gateway and Runscope based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Postman, F5, SmartBear and others in API Monitoring Software."API routing is the most valuable feature."
"We do not face any lags."
"It's easy to install, and the performance is good."
"The feature of automatically executing tests at a predefined time interval is great as we can be continuously testing our end-points before and after builds are deployed."
"This solution has improved our responsiveness to issues in both production and non-production environments. Through integration with Slack, our development and DevOps teams are quickly aware of issues related to new changes deployed to non-production environments, which tightens our feedback loop during testing. Through integration with PagerDuty, our DevOps resources are able to reduce the adverse impact of a given production issue."
"Tests are per-step configurable with script capabilities and support for token-based authentication using variables. Configurable test frequency and integration with both Slack and PagerDuty for alerting our DevOps team are also important. General use of the dashboard by multiple team members is also valuable."
"As we have the APIs scheduled, we use the notifications. We know the exact moment it is breaking something that might impact the customer system, that might result in a feature not working. We know "in advance" and we can fix it before the customer notices. It helps us to be more proactive."
"It is a relatively reliable tool for running big amounts of API tests, which you can schedule to run periodically, as the product is very good."
"When it's a problem on our side, the server is down, or there is a lack of memory, the first thing to break is the API, because the calls can't be processed. So we know exactly at that moment because we receive notifications, and we can take action. It doesn't only notify us of the type problem, but it also links it to our servers."
"We love the fact that we can have our API tests run on a schedule as often as we need. We also take advantage of being able to set up different environment settings so that we can use the same test in our production, integration, and QA environments, easily. The ability to string together a number of API tests for a test suite is very important to us as well."
"It is a cloud-based environment for building and executing tests, which allows me to focus on building, running, and reviewing test results."
"It could be more secure because security is always a problem."
"The UI could be more attractive."
"The product must improve its security features."
"We would like the ability to configure Runscope behavior when a given test has its schedule modified. That is, in a non-production environment, we often need to pause a test (either by removing it from the schedule or adjusting its frequency) and this results in the automatic kick-off of this test in all other environments. We would like the ability to simply pause a test for a specific shared environment without causing additional tests to be started."
"the built-in editor for the scripts can be improved a lot. Instead of making such a basic editor, maybe include a little more so it is easier to look at things and debug."
"It would be nice to be able to generate API documentation."
"If triggering test bucket via trigger API, there is no option to see if the tests which were triggered passed or failed."
"Navigation can be a little tricky when changing run environments and switching between test run results and editing the tests. It would be nice if you could switch the environment for all tests in a Bucket to run, rather than having to change each test environment."
"I would like to see easier integration and display of test results so that the data could be shared via a dashboard within our company. (Some integration is possible, provided you use one of the supported platforms)."
"Reliability. I would like to see more money invested in disaster recovery testing of the application. The product should be hosted across several AWS regions so if there are issues with an EC2 instance in a particular region, the whole application won't be affected. Once or twice a year there are issues with AWS that causes the reliability of the application to suffer."
"There are not many options for scalability."
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NGINX API Gateway is ranked 2nd in API Monitoring Software with 3 reviews while Runscope is ranked 4th in API Monitoring Software. NGINX API Gateway is rated 8.4, while Runscope is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of NGINX API Gateway writes "A scalable and affordable solution that performs well and provides excellent technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Runscope writes "Enabled us to set up automatic regression tests that cover everything we need to monitor". NGINX API Gateway is most compared with Postman, whereas Runscope is most compared with Postman.
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