apitally 0.8.0

API monitoring for REST APIs built with FastAPI, Flask, Django, Starlette and Litestar.

API monitoring made easy.

Apitally is a simple and affordable API monitoring tool with a focus on data privacy.
It is super easy to use for API projects in Python or Node.js and never collects sensitive data.

🔗 apitally.io

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Apitally client library for Python

This client library for Apitally currently supports the following Python web frameworks:

• FastAPI
• Starlette
• Flask
• Django Ninja
• Django REST Framework
• Litestar

Learn more about Apitally on our 🌎 website or check out the 📚 documentation.

Key features

• Middleware for different frameworks to capture metadata about API endpoints, requests and responses (no sensitive data is captured)
• Non-blocking clients that aggregate and send captured data to Apitally in regular intervals

Install

Use pip to install and provide your framework of choice as an extra, for example:

pip install apitally[fastapi]

The available extras are: fastapi, flask, django_rest_framework, django_ninja, starlette and litestar.

Usage

Our setup guides include all the details you need to get started.

FastAPI

This is an example of how to add the Apitally middleware to a FastAPI application. For further instructions, see our setup guide for FastAPI.

from fastapi import FastAPI
from apitally.fastapi import ApitallyMiddleware

app = FastAPI()
app.add_middleware(
    ApitallyMiddleware,
    client_id="your-client-id",
    env="dev",  # or "prod" etc.
)

Flask

This is an example of how to add the Apitally middleware to a Flask application. For further instructions, see our setup guide for Flask.

from flask import Flask
from apitally.flask import ApitallyMiddleware

app = Flask(__name__)
app.wsgi_app = ApitallyMiddleware(
    app,
    client_id="your-client-id",
    env="dev",  # or "prod" etc.
)

Django

This is an example of how to add the Apitally middleware to a Django Ninja or Django REST Framework application. For further instructions, see our setup guide for Django.

In your Django settings.py file:

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

Litestar

This is an example of how to add the Apitally plugin to a Litestar application. For further instructions, see our setup guide for Litestar.

from litestar import Litestar
from apitally.litestar import ApitallyPlugin

app = Litestar(
    route_handlers=[...],
    plugins=[
        ApitallyPlugin(
            client_id="your-client-id",
            env="dev",  # or "prod" etc.
        ),
    ]
)

Getting help

If you need help please create a new discussion on GitHub or join our Slack workspace.

License

This library is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.