Tracking api requests?

[mightykatun]

Hey everyone, I have an api endpoint running with python/flask, and I would like to have my requests tracked by rybbit. I don't know if it even makes sense from a technical POV or a logical POV (would tracking the origin of api calls and such even be a thing done by companies?).
My assumption is that Rybbit isn't made for this exact purpose (I know it's meant for websites), but I'd like to get some more statistics that my flask app's log and my authentication framework's logs...
I'd appreciate any input!

[goldflag]

I'm actually working on this exact feature right now. You'll be able to generate an API key to hit our API endpoints and you'll be able to pass in page view data or custom event data. This is useful if you don't want to have a client-side tracking script or are using mobile apps.

Tracking your flask app log/auth logs might be a little iffy since rybbit is designed for user analytics, not service observability. It could still work, but it's not something that rybbit is designed for at this moment.

[mightykatun]

Alright, thanks a lot for the input. I assume I could parse the relevant parameters in my app, then send them to rybbit through to the api endpoint as arguments? Still think getting a map, session count, etc to be nice on top of a simple /stats endpoints

[goldflag]

yea, this is the schema of the events table and roughly the api endpoint will all of these values, except for the location which will be resolved from the IP.

[mightykatun]

Thanks a lot, I'll wait for the update!

[goldflag]

Added this in the new release 1.3.0!

[mightykatun]

It works very nicely, thanks! I am having some trouble with the querystring argument tho, how should the string be formatted?

[goldflag]

I think you may need to prepend it with ?

[mightykatun]

Yep, it works fine now!