# Templates for API Backends

Monitor your API Backends with the Starter template for queries, and alerts. These queries use your Api Gateway Logs, and CloudWatch Metrics to help you make sure your API's are scalable and have great uptime.

# Required Datasets

Dataset	Docs
apigateway-logs	Sending API Gateway Logs to Baselime
cloudwatch-metrics	Sending CloudWatch Metrics to Baselime

# Queries

API Integration Latency

Name	Description	Dataset	ID
API Latency	Provides stats on API latency (AVG, P90, P95, P99)	apigateway-logs	api-latency
API Integration Latency	The speed of API gateway compared to the speed integration	apigateway-logs	api-integration-latency
API Errors	Counts the number of API errors and groups by status	apigateway-logs	api-errors
API Overview	Sums the values of API metrics	cloudwatch-metrics	api-overview
Request Count	Counts the number of requests	apigateway-logs	request-count

# Alarms

Name	Description	Triggered by	Threshold	Window
API Latency Alarm	Triggers an alarm if the AVG response latency is over a threshold	api-latency	`> 4000`	`60mins`
API Errors Alarm	Triggers an alarm if the count of API errors is over a threshold	api-errors	`> 10`	`10mins`
Request Count Alarm	Triggers an alarm if the count of requests is over a threshold	request-count	`> 60000`	`1min`

# Combos

This template works great with

Lambda Logs Basics