Measuring Performance Where Your Users Are
Measuring Performance Where Your Users Are. API performance tests run from a single location tell you how the API performs from that location. For most real-world applications, your users are distributed across geographies, cloud regions, and network paths that produce meaningfully different latency and reliability profiles.
Measuring Performance Where Your Users Are
API performance tests run from a single location tell you how the API performs from that location. For most real-world applications, your users are distributed across geographies, cloud regions, and network paths that produce meaningfully different latency and reliability profiles. This video covers why geographic distribution of API monitoring matters, what the performance differences look like in practice, and how measuring from where your users actually are changes what you know about your API's quality.
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[Human view](https://apicontext.com/resources/measuring-performance-where-your-users-are) · [Markdown view](https://apicontext.com/resources/measuring-performance-where-your-users-are.md) · [APIContext home](https://apicontext.com) # Measuring Performance Where Your Users Are Canonical URL: https://apicontext.com/resources/measuring-performance-where-your-users-are Source: static Description: API performance measured from your data centre does not reflect what users experience\. Watch this APIContext video on geographic performance measurement\. ## Summary Measuring Performance Where Your Users Are\. API performance tests run from a single location tell you how the API performs from that location\. For most real\-world applications, your users are distributed across geographies, cloud regions, and network paths that produce meaningfully different latency and reliability profiles\. ## Page sections ### Measuring Performance Where Your Users Are API performance tests run from a single location tell you how the API performs from that location\. For most real\-world applications, your users are distributed across geographies, cloud regions, and network paths that produce meaningfully different latency and reliability profiles\. This video covers why geographic distribution of API monitoring matters, what the performance differences look like in practice, and how measuring from where your users actually are changes what you know about your API's quality\. ## Key facts - API performance tests run from a single location tell you how the API performs from that location\. For most real\-world applications, your users are distributed across geographies, cloud regions, and network paths that produce meaningfully different latency and reliability profiles\. - This video covers why geographic distribution of API monitoring matters, what the performance differences look like in practice, and how measuring from where your users actually are changes what you know about your API's quality\. ## Primary entities - APIContext - Video - Measuring Performance Where Your Users Are - API monitoring - API reliability ## Audience - API teams - technology leaders - SRE teams ## Primary links - [Request a demo](/contact)