Monitoring SalesForce.com Usage, traffic and response times

One of my favorite Web APIs to use in demos is SalesForce.com . SalesForce has a ton of information about their API on their developer site. TheVordel Gateway Cloud Edition can be used to connect up to SalesForce, including sending up the API Key and caching the Session Identifier which is returned back by SalesForce.

One of the neat things is that all traffic from the app to the SalesForce API is now monitored by the Vordel Gateway Cloud Edition. There are many advantages to this, which I will delve deeper into in later posts. But, one key advantage is that "rogue cloud service usage" is stamped out, since it appears on the Real-Time Monitoring of the Cloud Gateway:



Any issues with the data being sent to SalesForce, such when the Vordel Gateway detects and blocks sensitive information which should not go up to SalesForce, is instantly viewable.

Similarly, the response time from SalesForce.com is monitored. It's easy to see the bytes in, bytes out, and the response times and codes from SalesForce.com, using the Vordel Gateway.



Look out for more blog posts this week about using the Vordel Gateway Cloud Edition with the SalesForce API...