Beyond Requests: Supercharging API Monitoring with Guzzle Middleware

For May's PHPSW Liam will telling us all about Supercharging API monitoring, we'll also have a group discussion about something PHP related...

Beyond Requests: Supercharging API Monitoring with Guzzle Middleware
- Liam Hammett

Handling millions of API calls in production can be overwhelming. Everyone uses Guzzle, but in this talk we'll deep dive into using its underutilised middleware for efficient API monitoring. We’ll dive into logging with Kibana, error enhancement with Sentry, tracing with OpenZipkin and Jaeger, and making use of Prometheus metrics with Grafana, Alertmanager and KEDA. Drawing from my experience building an application that makes millions of API calls each week, you'll leave with actionable insights to keep your microservices and third-party APIs stable under pressure.

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SR2 – Socially Responsible Recruitment and Lamp Bristol are kindly helping us host this evening. Thanks to them!

Your first time coming to PHPSW? Welcome!
Here's how the evening tends to run:

• Feel free to turn up from 6:30pm.
• We'll have a selection of soft drinks & alcoholic drinks available from about 6:45pm, all free of charge thanks to our sponsors. It's a great chance to speak to people (we're a friendly bunch!) and do a bit of networking. Just speak to an organiser if you'd like an introduction to people, or just dive in and say "hello!".
• At 7pm, we'll do a quick welcome talk and some community announcements
• At ~7:05pm we'll start the talks
• We finish at ~9pm. We always go for a drink somewhere afterwards to discuss the talks and anything else that takes your fancy. 🐘