Observe your API with an API Gateway Plugin

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Demonstrates using Apache APISIX plugins to get logs, metrics and traces without changing app code: a Docker Compose demo wires APISIX, a .NET product API (two demo products), Prometheus, Zipkin/Jaeger and Grafana; the HTTP logger posts request records to a mock log endpoint and the Prometheus plugin exposes /prometheus metrics that Grafana dashboards display (requests/sec, latency). Setup runs from the repo and claims full observability in under five minutes.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:46What is API observability
3. 4:18Why API observability matters
4. 7:49What is an API Gateway
5. 8:10Plugins in API Gateway
6. 9:59Introducing API6 project
7. 11:50Three pillars of observability
8. 14:59Demo setup prerequisites
9. 16:26Enabling logging with API6
10. 23:14Configuring API Gateway routes
11. 24:20Collecting metrics with Prometheus
12. 26:53Visualizing metrics in Grafana
13. 28:39Key takeaways
14. 30:30Q&A

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