Apitally - Simple, privacy-focused API monitoring & analytics for Echo

[itssimon]

Hey Echo community,

I'd like to introduce you to my indie product Apitally, a simple, privacy-focused API monitoring and analytics tool for Echo. What sets it apart is that it's super easy to set up and gives you opinionated, useful dashboards out of the box.

Feature highlights:

• API traffic, error, and response time metrics per endpoint
• Tracking of individual API consumers
• Request logs with correlated application logs and traces
• Uptime monitoring, CPU & memory usage
• Custom alerts via email, Slack, or Microsoft Teams

The open-source Apitally SDK integrates with Echo via a lightweight middleware, and syncs data in the background at regular intervals. It minimmizes data collection by default, and gives you full control over what's captured.

To set it up for your apps, you just need to add a few lines of code. No infrastructure changes required, no dashboards to build.

package main

import (
    apitally "github.com/apitally/apitally-go/echo"
    "github.com/labstack/echo/v4"
)

func main() {
    e := echo.New()

    config := apitally.NewConfig("your-client-id")
    config.Env = "dev" // or "prod" etc.

    // Optional: configure request logging
    config.RequestLogging.Enabled = true
    config.RequestLogging.LogRequestHeaders = true
    config.RequestLogging.LogRequestBody = true
    config.RequestLogging.LogResponseBody = true
    config.RequestLogging.CaptureLogs = true

    e.Use(apitally.Middleware(e, config))

    // ... rest of your code ...
}

Here's the full setup guide for Echo if you'd like to try it out.

This is what the dashboard looks like:

I built Apitally because I was frustrated with enterprise monitoring tools like Datadog, which were too complex for what I needed: a clear view of how my APIs were doing. I've been working on it for over 2 years and it's now used by 100+ engineering teams. I hope that you guys find it useful too.