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As of January 2025, the mindshare of Runscope in the API Monitoring Software category stands at 18.9%, down from 20.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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CategoryAPI Monitoring SoftwareJan 9, 2025Download
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Quality Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of Runscope
Jul 25, 2018
Enabled us to set up automatic regression tests that cover everything we need to monitor

Pros

"Valuable features include: Being able to add tests as sub-tests in a parent test for regression testing; notifications for tests that pass/fail; being able to customize expected results with assertions; being able to set tests to run daily."

Cons

"We would like to be able to select the actual time a test will run automatically. It appears that you can set up the automatic schedule, but the test runs based on the last time it ran and not a time you select. Since we want these tests to run in the middle of the night, it would be nice to be able to select that."
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Director, QA
Verified user of Runscope
Jul 25, 2018
A cloud-based environment for building and executing tests, allowing me to focus on building, running, and reviewing test results

Pros

"It is a cloud-based environment for building and executing tests, which allows me to focus on building, running, and reviewing test results."

Cons

"File upload is a big part of the products that we test. The lack of file upload in Runscope requires us to still use UI (Selenium) automated tests for these scenarios."
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Director of Engineering at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Verified user of Runscope
Jul 25, 2018
Helps us verify that production deployments do not break the features our customers use

Pros

"It helps us verify that production deployments do not break the features our customers use."

Cons

"The initial setup included a lot of repetitive manual work."
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QA Manager at a retailer
Verified user of Runscope
Jun 13, 2018
Environment initial variables allow our team to run tests against multiple environments on the fly

Pros

"Environment initial variables allow our team to run tests against multiple environments on the fly."

Cons

"If you forget to set the default environment during test creation, you have to go through every test and make sure that it is set to the environment that you prefer if using shared environments. If there was an option to force all tests within a bucket into a specific environment with one click, this would save a lot of time."
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DevOps Engineer at a tech company with 1-10 employees
Verified user of Runscope
Jul 25, 2018
Integration with alerting apps tightens our feedback loop during testing

Pros

"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. "

Cons

"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."
PeerSpot user
Project Manager, QA Leader and Information Security Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Verified user of Runscope
Jun 6, 2018
Notifications enable us to proactively fix issues before the customer even notices them

Pros

"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."

Cons

"One thing that can be improved is the logging. Sometimes, when we have an error, we don't know how to find more information about the problem that has happened. Sometimes, it just returns something like "that gateway." More information would be a way to improve it."
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Director of Engineering at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
Verified user of Runscope
Aug 23, 2018
Enables us to monitor API endpoints to ensure everything is running

Pros

"It uses JavaScript which is easy."

Cons

"I've noticed, once or twice, when there were some updates pushed by Runscope, at times it didn't refresh the pages. I was running it, there were multiple tests running at the same time, and it didn't update the webpage I was looking at. So I had to refresh it manually. Occasionally, it still happens."
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Quality Assurance Engineer at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of Runscope
Jun 6, 2018
It has the ability to run a large amount of tests simultaneously

Pros

"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."

Cons

"There are not many options for scalability."