Observability and Monitoring Overview

Observability and monitoring provide administrators and APIOps teams with comprehensive insight into gateway and API runtime behavior, performance metrics, and overall system health.

The observability framework enables you to:

• Monitor API traffic and performance metrics
• Capture access logs, traces, metrics, alerts, audit trails, and event logs
• Collect system and container-level metrics
• Track backend service dependencies
• Detect errors and anomalies across the API ecosystem
• Support distributed tracing methodologies
• Integrate with analytics and visualization platforms

Akana supports several observability mechanisms, including:

• Logging
• Metrics collection

These capabilities help organizations implement production-grade monitoring and troubleshooting practices for large-scale API deployments.