A tool to handle API downtime with 2 LOC
Applications and SaaS are using more and more APIs, but there's no tool to give you insights about your APIs usage. Well, until now... Introducing the Bearer Agent. Tagged with node, api, monitoring, howto.
A tool to handle API downtime with 2 LOC launched on January 30, 2020 with 14 votes, #796 of 3,486 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.
In plain words
This development tool helps engineers manage API downtime with minimal code changes, requiring just two lines of code to implement. It's designed for developers who need to maintain application functionality when external APIs become unavailable. The tool provides a lightweight solution for handling service interruptions without extensive refactoring or complex fallback logic.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
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In the last years, calling a third-party API has been made very straightforward. As an example, here's all that it takes to show in your app a list of planets from the famous Star Wars movies: Templates let you quickly answer FAQs or store snippets for re-use. I'm looking for solutions to globally handle 429 errors when doing external API calls (rate-limit reached). I would like failing calls to be retried a few seconds later. Yeah! You would need to add the agent to your app; then setup rules & incidents to receive alerts whenever the API calls are failing due to 429 errors. Feel free to sign-up (it’s free) and get in touch with us using the chat if ever you need. I would need to have my…from dev.to
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