Bruno Pedro is a Web and Business developer with over ten years’ experience in both startups and large corporations. Currently he’s interested in unifying the tangible Internet of Things with the intangible computational algorithms, by using Web services.
As a consumer, you can set up an alert when any of your API requests has a deprecation or sunset HTTP header. You'd know immediately if any of the APIs you depend on is about to be deactivated.
That's a great point, and that's why I explicitly used the word suspicious. If you deploy a new version, then the tool you use to detect suspicious activity should take that into account.
And no, this is not a pitch. I don't work nor am endorsed by any of the services mentioned in the article.