Monitoring Exchange Account and Ticker API Availability and Latency

Summary

This document presents a polling monitor for checking whether exchange account and ticker endpoints respond. For each configured exchange, it requests a ticker and account snapshot, records whether each result is present, measures elapsed time, and displays the readings in a status table. The loop repeats at regular intervals, making it a basic operational check of connectivity and response latency rather than a trading signal.

The example includes exchange-specific futures contract settings and an optional proxy configuration. Its output can help identify unavailable endpoints or changes in response time across venues, but the document provides no measurements, service-level thresholds, error classification, or historical analysis. A successful response does not guarantee that market data is fresh or that orders can be executed reliably. The code is also tied to its original trading platform’s API and configuration conventions, so adapting it elsewhere would require different endpoint and credential handling.

Key ideas

• The monitor repeatedly checks ticker and account calls for each configured exchange.
• It records response presence and elapsed time, then presents the readings in a status table.
• Exchange-specific futures contracts can be selected before the API calls are made.
• An optional proxy setting is provided for routing requests through a proxy server.
• The monitor checks basic endpoint responsiveness but does not assess data freshness, order execution, or historical reliability.

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