Systems and methods of application program interface (api) parameter monitoring

A method comprising:

• receiving, at a server, a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) request including at least a first parameter defined in an Application Program Interface (API) provided by the server and at least a second parameter not defined in the API, wherein the second parameter is a monitoring parameter to be monitored by a monitoring system communicatively coupled to the server;
• categorizing or filtering, at the monitoring system, the URL request for processing based upon the second parameter;
• discarding, at the server, the second parameter prior to processing the URL request by the API;
• retrieving data, at the server, by processing the URL request with the discarded second parameter by the API using the first parameter;
• monitoring, at the monitoring system communicatively coupled to the server, the categorized or filtered URL request as it is processed by the server and outputting a monitoring report;
• and
• transmitting, via a communications network coupled to the server, the data retrieved by the processing the URL request.

A system comprising:

• a server having a processor to receive a request for data from at least one service available via an Application Program Interface (API), to determine a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for the at least one service based on the received request, to generate one or more monitoring parameters for a monitoring system based on the received request to monitor processing of the received request, and to add the generated one or more monitoring parameters to the URL;
• a service provider system, communicatively coupled to the server, to process the request for the data for the at least one service via the API based on the generated URL by discarding the one or more monitoring parameters for the monitoring system added to the URL and to retrieve the requested data based on the processed request;
• and
• the monitoring system, communicatively coupled to the service provider system, to monitor the added one or more monitoring parameters of the URL by categorizing or filtering the received request and to output a monitoring report,
• wherein the server transmits, via a communications network coupled to the server, the data retrieved by the processing of the request.