Apitally - API analytics, logging & monitoring for Express apps

[itssimon]

Hey Express community,

I’d like to introduce you to my indie product Apitally, an API analytics, logging and monitoring tool for Express.

Apitally's key features are:

• Metrics & insights into API usage, errors and performance, for the whole API, each endpoint and individual API consumers.
• Request logging allows users to find and inspect individual API requests and responses.
• Uptime monitoring & alerting notifies users of API problems the moment they happen, whether it's downtime, traffic spikes, errors or performance issues.

The big monitoring platforms (Datadog etc.) can be a bit overwhelming & expensive, particularly for simpler use cases. So Apitally’s key differentiators are simplicity & affordability, with the goal to make it as easy as possible for users to understand all aspects of their API and its consumers.

Apitally integrates with Express through middleware, which captures request & response metadata, aggregates it and asynchronously ships it to Apitally’s servers in regular intervals. It's designed with a strong focus on the users' data privacy.

Here's a screenshot of the Apitally dashboard:

If you'd like to try it out, there's a setup guide for Express.

Please let me know what you think!