Apitally - Simple API monitoring & analytics for Express

[itssimon]

Hey Express community,

I'm Simon, a software engineer and solo founder. I built Apitally because I was frustrated with enterprise monitoring tools like Datadog. They were way too complex for what I needed: a clear view of how my APIs were doing. So I built something simpler. I've been working on it for over 2 years now and it's grown into a profitable product used by 100+ engineering teams.

Apitally comes with opinionated dashboards covering:

• API traffic, errors, and response times 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 Teams

The open-source Apitally SDK integrates with Express via a lightweight middleware and syncs data in the background at regular intervals. By default, nothing sensitive is captured, only aggregated metrics. Request logging is opt-in and you can configure exactly what's included.

You can set everything up in minutes by just adding a few lines of code. No infrastructure changes required, no dashboards to build.

import express from "express";
import { useApitally } from "apitally/express";

const app = express();
app.use(express.json());

useApitally(app, {
  clientId: "your-client-id",
  env: "dev", // or "prod" etc.

  // Optional: configure request logging
  requestLogging: {
    enabled: true,
    logRequestHeaders: true,
    logRequestBody: true,
    logResponseBody: true,
    captureLogs: true,
  },
});

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

This is what the dashboard looks like: