Apitally - Metrics, logs, and alerts for Express

[itssimon]

Hey Express community,

When shipping APIs, as developers we need access to relevant logs and metrics to troubleshoot issues effectively and understand API usage/performance. However, I've found that most monitoring tools bury these in bloated dashboards that are a pain to use.

That's why I built Apitally, a simple API monitoring tool for Express that focuses on what actually matters for APIs:

• Usage metrics (per endpoint and consumer)
• Error tracking (with stack traces)
• Performance monitoring
• Request logs + correlated application logs
• Uptime monitoring + alerts with Slack/Teams notifications

The Apitally SDK integrates with Express via a lightweight middleware, which captures metrics and logs for all requests and asynchronously sends them to Apitally’s servers in regular intervals.

Setup is super easy. Just add a few lines of code to your project. No infrastructure required.

const express = require("express");
const { useApitally } = require("apitally/express");

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

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

The Apitally dashboard looks like this:

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

Please let me know what you think!