Apitally - Metrics, logs, and alerts for Django APIs

[itssimon]

Hey Django 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 Django 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 Django through a lightweight middleware, which captures metrics and logs for all API 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 settings. No infrastructure required.

MIDDLEWARE = [
    "apitally.django.ApitallyMiddleware",
    # Other middleware ...
]
APITALLY_MIDDLEWARE = {
    "client_id": "your-client-id",
    "env": "dev",  # or "prod" etc.
}

Here's a screenshot of the Apitally dashboard:

If you'd like to try it out, there's a detailed setup guide for Django REST Framework.

Please let me know what you think!