HOW TO monitor performance and availability status of public APIs & websites

If you use Public APIs (like Bing Search, Google Maps APIs) in your applications, it helps to be aware of performance and availability issues that those services may face.

Thankfully, there are some free tools that monitor popular APIs & websites -
Also see:
How LARGE websites manage performance & scalability

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