Case Study: Edmunds.com keeps its API reliable with Runscope

Runscope Keeps Edmunds.com In the Driver's Seat of Its API

Edmunds.com, a leading online resource for car shopping, faced the challenge of reliably monitoring its revenue-generating API to ensure it was always available and returning correct data for its partners. Their previous home-grown scripting solution was not scalable and often meant they discovered issues only after their users were impacted. They turned to Runscope to find a comprehensive and automated API monitoring solution.

By implementing Runscope, Edmunds.com gained automated, cloud-based monitoring that could handle complex, multi-step tests with ease, including an OAuth layer. The solution provided immediate notifications of failures via webhooks, allowing the team to resolve issues before customers were affected. Runscope proved its value by catching significant site failures during a critical period and has seamlessly scaled alongside Edmunds.com's API, which grew 40% in two months, ensuring the platform's continued reliability.

Edmunds.com

Jim Naylor

Director of Product Management