Stop Building API Dashboards From Scratch

Every API developer has been there. You ship an API, someone starts using it, and the questions begin: "How many requests are we getting?" "Who's our heaviest consumer?" "Why did error rates spike at 3am?" So you write a few SQL queries. Maybe stand up a Grafana instance. Add some log parsing. Before you know it, you've spent two days on infrastructure that has nothing to do with your actual product. The pattern I kept repeating For every API project, I built some version of the same system: Log request metadata to a database Write queries to aggregate it Build a dashboard to visualize it Set up alerts when things go wrong The fourth time I did this, I realized it should be a product. PeekAPI: one middleware call, full API analytics PeekAPI is a middleware you add to your API server. Here's the full setup: Node.js (Express): import { peekapi } from " @peekapi/sdk-node " ; app . use ( peekapi ({ apiKey : " pk_... " })); Python (FastAPI): from peekapi import PeekAPIMiddleware app . add_m