Looks interesting! Do you guys offer any sort of visibility tools/reports into customer usage of different endpoints, tracking of actual API requests (including payloads/etc) per request, etc? Is it possible to use you guys just for billing if we already have our own auth?
asommer12|4 years ago
With regard to endpoint visibility, yes, totally. One of our strengths is the ability to even price different endpoints differently. If you have endpoints that are high-value that you want to track differently than other endpoints, you can simply tag it, and Kable will monitor that endpoint as its own dimension. So yes, you can see which customers are calling which endpoints through our dashboard.
With regard to tracking request payloads, this is something we do not currently support. We've given this some thought, and while we might change our position in the future based on customer feedback, we are currently not storing customer request data. The reason for this is privacy. We want to be careful about what information we store from our customers' customers, so we require developers to explicitly define what information gets recorded in Kable.
Finally, with respect to billing and analytics and authentication as separate features or products: *ABSOLUTELY*. You can use Kable for billing and analytics without using Kable authentication. We want it to be super easy to use both, but we understand many customers have other systems for managing API keys or other parts of the stack. In this case, we recommend using Kable's `record` method, and using us for our core competencies of billing and analytics.