Moesif API Insights

This add-on is operated by Moesif Inc.

AI-powered API debugging and analytics for REST, GraphQL, and Ethereum Web3 APIs

Moesif API Insights

Last updated 01 October 2018

The Moesif API Insights add-on is currently in beta.

Moesif is an add-on that provides AI-powered debugging and analytics for your production APIs, including RESTful, GraphQL, Ethereum Web3, and SOAP APIs.

Moesif helps you prevent minor issues from becoming major outages through deep API monitoring for anomalous behavior of your production API traffic. Learn more about Moesif features.

  • Understand how your customers actually use your API
  • Identify the root cause of issues quickly with ML-powered features like Smart Diff
  • Get Slack and PagerDuty alerts of anomalous API behavior that ping tests don’t catch

Moesif offers drop-in open-source SDKs for the following languages:

Provisioning the add-on

Moesif can be attached to a Heroku application via the CLI:

A list of all plans can be found here.

$ heroku addons:create moesif
-----> Adding moesif to sharp-mountain-4005... done, v18 (free)

During provisioning, a MOESIF_APPLICATION_ID config var is set in your Heroku app’s configuration. It contains the write-only API token that identifies your application with Moesif. You can confirm the variable exists via the heroku config:get command:

$ heroku config:get MOESIF_APPLICATION_ID
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

You now need to set up your language-specific SDK integration with this MOESIF_APPLICATION_ID.

Local setup

Environment setup

After you provision the add-on, you need to locally replicate your config vars so your development environment can operate against the service.

Use the Heroku Local command-line tool to configure, run, and manage process types specified in your app’s Procfile. Heroku Local reads configuration variables from a .env file. To view all of your app’s config vars, type heroku config. Use the following command for each value that you want to add to your .env file:

$ heroku config:get MOESIF_APPLICATION_ID -s  >> .env

Credentials and other sensitive values should not be committed to source-control. In Git exclude the .env file with: echo .env >> .gitignore.

For more information, see the Heroku Local article.

Using with Node.JS/Express

Install the moesif-express SDK.

$ npm install --save moesif-express

Add moesif-express middleware to your express app:

var express = require('express');
var app = express();

var moesifExpress = require('moesif-express');

// Set the options, the only required field is applicationId.
var options = {

  applicationId: process.env.MOESIF_APPLICATION_ID,

  identifyUser: function (req, res) {
    if (req.user) {
      return req.user.id;
    }
    return undefined;
  },

  getSessionToken: function (req, res) {
    return req.headers['Authorization'];
  }
};

// Load the Moesif middleware
app.use(moesifExpress(options));

If you’re not using the Express framework, you can still use this library. The library does not depend on Express, so you can still call the middleware from a basic HTTP server.

var moesifExpress = require('moesif-express');
const http = require('http');

var options = {
  applicationId: process.env.MOESIF_APPLICATION_ID
};

var server = http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  moesifExpress(options)(req, res, function () {
  });

  req.on('end', function () {

    res.write(JSON.stringify({
      message: "hello world!",
      id: 2
    }));
    res.end();
  });
});

server.listen(8080);

For a full list of available options, see this page.

Using with Rails 3.x

Install moesif_rack middleware:

gem install moesif_rack

If you have a Gemfile in your project, add this line to it:

gem 'moesif_rack', '~> 1.2.0'

Inside your Rails app, configure the Moesif options. See more configuration options here.

moesif_application_id = ENV['MOESIF_APPLICATION_ID']

moesif_options = {
  'application_id' => moesif_application_id
}

Within config/application.rb, add moesif_rack as a midddleware:

class Application < Rails::Application
  # snip

  config.middleware.use "MoesifRack::MoesifMiddleware", moesif_options

  # snip
end

Verify your integration by sending a few API calls through your app, and open Moesif Dashboard to see the data:

$ heroku addons:open moesif

Using with Python/Django

Install the moesifdjango library:

$ pip install moesifdjango

Add Moesif to the Django middleware. The process for this differs depends on whether your version of Django is at least 1.10.

For Django 1.10 and later:

MIDDLEWARE = [
    ...
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'moesifdjango.middleware.moesif_middleware'
    ...
]

For Django 1.9 and earlier:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = [
    ...
    'moesifdjango.middleware_pre19.MoesifMiddlewarePre19',
    ...
    # other middlewares
]

For all versions, add MOESIF_MIDDLEWARE settings into your settings.py file:

import os

moesif_id = os.environ.get('MOESIF_APPLICATION_ID')

MOESIF_MIDDLEWARE = {
    'APPLICATION_ID': moesif_id,
    # ...
    # other options see https://github.com/Moesif/moesifdjango/
}

For list of all available options, see this page.

Verify your integration by sending a few API calls through your app, and open the Moesif dashboard to see the data:

$ heroku addons:open moesif

Using with Python/WSGI

If you are using Flask, Bottle, or another framework that is built on top of WSGI, install the moesifwsgi library.

$ pip install moesifwsgi

Flask Example:

import os
from moesifwsgi import MoesifMiddleware

moesif_settings = {
    'APPLICATION_ID': os.environ.get('MOESIF_APPLICATION_ID')
}

app.wsgi_app = MoesifMiddleware(app.wsgi_app, moesif_settings)

Bottle Example:

import os
from moesifwsgi import MoesifMiddleware

app = bottle.Bottle()

moesif_settings = {
    'APPLICATION_ID': os.environ.get('MOESIF_APPLICATION_ID'),
}

bottle.run(app=MoesifMiddleware(app, moesif_settings))

For more options and examples for other frameworks see this page.

Using with Java

Install the moesif-servlet SDK.

For Maven users, add this dependency to your project’s pom.xml file:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.moesif.servlet</groupId>
    <artifactId>moesif-servlet</artifactId>
    <version>1.2.0</version>
</dependency>

Assuming that you are using Spring Boot, which is the standard Java framework supported by Heroku, add the Moesif Servlet filter to your configuration:

import com.moesif.servlet.MoesifFilter;

import javax.servlet.Filter;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.*;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.*;
import org.springframework.http.converter.*;

@Configuration
public class MyConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {

  @Bean
  public Filter moesifFilter() {
    String moesifApplicationId = System.getenv().get("MOESIF_APPLICATION_ID");
    return new MoesifFilter(moesifApplicatoinId);
  }
}

Optionally, to customize the filter, pass in an object that implements MoesifConfiguration, such as MoesifConfigurationAdapter.

@Configuration
public class MyConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {

  MoesifConfiguration config = new MoesifConfigurationAdapter() {
    @Override
    public String getSessionToken(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {
      return request.getHeader("Authorization");
    }
  };

  @Bean
  public Filter moesifFilter() {
    return new MoesifFilter("your application id", config);
  }
}

For more configuration options and integration options for other frameworks, see this page.

Using with PHP/Laravel

Install the Moesif PHP Laravel SDK

$ composer require moesif/moesif-laravel

Add service provider:

// within config/app.php

'providers' => [
    //
    Moesif\Middleware\MoesifLaravelServiceProvider::class,
];

Add to middleware:

// within App/Http/Kernel.php

protected $middleware = [
    //
    \Moesif\Middleware\MoesifLaravel::class,
];

Alternatively, add the midddleware to a specific route group:

protected $middlewareGroups = [
    //
    'api' => [
        //
        \Moesif\Middleware\MoesifLaravel::class,
    ],
];

Publish the package config file:

$ php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Moesif\Middleware\MoesifLaravelServiceProvider"

Set up config:

// within config/moesif.php

return [
    //
    'applicationId' => getenv('MOESIF_APPLICATION_ID'),
];

For complete list of available options, see this page.

Dashboard

For more information on the features available within the Moesif dashboard, please see the docs at https://www.moesif.com/docs.

The Moesif dashboard allows you to view your data, generate visualizations from our large library of charts, configure alert rules, and run machine-learning-powered jobs that perform root cause analysis.

You can access the dashboard via the CLI:

$ heroku addons:open moesif
Opening moesif for sharp-mountain-4005

or by visiting the Heroku Dashboard and selecting the application in question. Select Moesif from the Add-ons menu.

Migrating between plans

Use the heroku addons:upgrade command to migrate to a new plan.

$ heroku addons:upgrade moesif:newplan
-----> Upgrading moesif:newplan to sharp-mountain-4005... done, v18 ($49/mo)
       Your plan has been updated to: moesif:newplan

Removing the add-on

You can remove Moesif via the CLI:

This cannot be undone!

$ heroku addons:destroy moesif
-----> Removing moesif from sharp-mountain-4005... done, v20 (free)

Moesif Terms of Service

By provisioning a Moesif add-on, you are agreeing to Moesif’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, which can be found at https://www.moesif.com/terms and https://www.moesif.com/privacy.

Support

All Moesif support and runtime issues should be submitted via one of the Heroku Support channels. Any non-support-related issues or product feedback is welcome at support@moesif.com.

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