Raygun reduces tedious API tasks with Postman
Company Size
11-200
Region
- America
- Pacific
Country
- New Zealand
- United States
Product
- Raygun
- Postman
Tech Stack
- C#
- JavaScript
- ASP.NET
- Postgres
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Digital Expertise
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
Applicable Industries
- Software
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
Services
- Software Design & Engineering Services
About The Customer
Raygun is a software intelligence platform that was launched in 2013. The company is headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand with a U.S. head office in Seattle, Washington. The platform is used by approximately 50,000 developers across 120+ countries. Billions of events are processed every single day through the Raygun platform, recording software errors and end user performance profiles. The company's goal is to help technology companies build better software. The team consists of 12 engineers who build and maintain the technology that deals with huge data volumes.
The Challenge
Raygun, a software intelligence platform, is used by approximately 50,000 developers across 120+ countries. The platform processes billions of events every day, recording software errors and end user performance profiles to help technology companies build better software. The company's development team often needs to send data to the Raygun real user monitoring (RUM) API in various server environments. However, the process of manually updating the URL to direct the requests to either the local, office, or production environment is tedious and prone to errors.
The Solution
To streamline their process, the Raygun team turned to Postman, a tool for building, saving, and sharing payloads. They organized common examples within collections and folders, making it easy to find and resend the various types of requests that the team works with daily. To eliminate the need for manually updating the URL, the team created Postman environments. This upfront work saves time during every request thereafter. Additionally, the Raygun API requires all payloads to contain a timestamp and session ID. The team uses a Postman pre-request script to generate these variables that are required for Raygun POST requests. This allows the developer to focus on editing parts of the payload based on what they are testing at the time, while the other elements are taken care of automatically by Postman.
Operational Impact
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