The bigger your app gets the higher chance that it will need to integrate with multiple of external services, providers and APIs. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t. Sometimes it doesn’t matter when they are down or behaving problematically. Sometimes it costs your clients money.

Like when a payment gateway is having problems on Black Friday.

Learn how you can monitor your external integrations by reading “Monitoring services and adapters in your Rails app with Honeybadger, NewRelic and #prepend”