4 Call Usage Alerts

Call usage alerts trigger an email when API usage is near or exceeds the limit assigned for API calls to an environment. On the Alerts tab under Applications, you can configure the call limit for each application and its environment(s). With call usage alerts, you can do the following:

• Create a new usage alert setting

• Adjust a usage alert setting

• Remove a usage alert setting

Call usage alerts are beneficial to developer portal users concerned about unexpected spikes in usage. To avoid this potential problem you can set call limits, enabling you to better budget and monitor your API calls.

When you approach or exceed your call limit, an email is sent. Only one usage alert email is sent per day per application listing all the environments being called by the application that approach or exceed the assigned usage limit.

Figure 4-1 Usage Alert Email Example

Note:

Usage alerts do not prevent API calls from exceeding the chosen limit and only provide information in an email about the environments and applications that are near or exceed the call limit.

If you are using multiple applications or calling multiple environments, it is recommended to set a low limit for each environment on each application. For calls to non-production environments, a default of 10,000 calls is set for the limit, but no default limit is set for calls to production environments.

You can view your current usage in the Analytics tab.

• Configuring Call Usage Alerts