Can someone please explain the difference between the metrics “requests” and “API calls”. I understood that maximum number of requests for a single day defines the price for this day. How is this related to requests? I count 265 requests, but it shows 500 api calls.
Additionally it would be nice to understand where this spike came from, since the app is in development and I didn’t change my behaviour during testing… so I’m a bit surprised that the number of api calls has increased 10x compared to the max of the previous 7 hours.
Requests and API calls are technically the same. Every API call is a request.
The PERFORMACE tab shows a daily aggregated view of the peak requests per minute. The API CALLS tab shows the number of requests broken down per service and API type.
For information on how to diagnose spiked, please see the following article:
https://support.backendless.com/docs?topic=16980
For information on how to optimize API usage, please see the following article:
https://support.backendless.com/docs?topic=16966
Regards,
Mark
Hey Marc,
thank you for the fast answer and the articles with further information.
I understood that both terms technically mean the same and the API requests tab just shows the aggregated maximum of the requests tab I would expect the API requests value for a given day to be the same as the maximum value in the request section for that same day. Just to be sure: When I sum all calls with the role “All Clients” for any given minute I should receive the API requests and select the daily maximum, I should receive the API requests value?
Hi Anton,
It is a common misconception. The PERFORMANCE tab shows the daily aggregated values, while the API CALLS tab shows the non-aggregated sums categorized by the API type.
Regards,
Mark
Ahh yes, I switched the names. Now that we are on the same page I’m wondering why the maximum number of API calls in the API calls tab is not the same as the number of requests in the performance tab? Maybe I’m missing something here
The PERFORMANCE tab shows the peak per minute value for any given day.
If the maximum number of the API calls in the API CALLS tab would occur in the same minute, then the value in PERFORMANCE and in the API CALLS would be the same.
