Moesif API Analytics and Monetization

Partner Plugin: This plugin is developed, tested, and maintained by Moesif.

This plugin logs API traffic to Moesif API Analytics, which enables you to:

This plugin supports automatic analysis of high-volume REST, GraphQL, and other APIs without adding latency.

How it works

When enabled, this plugin captures API traffic and logs it to Moesif API Analytics. This plugin logs to Moesif with an asynchronous design and doesn’t add any latency to your API calls.

Package on Luarocks

Moesif natively supports REST, GraphQL, Web3, SOAP, JSON-RPC, and more.

How to install

If you are using Kong’s Kubernetes Ingress Controller, the installation is slightly different. Review the docs for Kubernetes Ingress.

The .rock file is a self-contained package that can be installed locally or from a remote server.

If the LuaRocks utility is installed in your system (this is likely the case if you used one of the official installation packages), you can install the ‘rock’ in your LuaRocks tree (a directory in which LuaRocks installs Lua modules).

Install the Moesif plugin

luarocks install --server=http://luarocks.org/manifests/moesif kong-plugin-moesif

Update your loaded plugins list

In your kong.conf, append moesif to the plugins field (or custom_plugins if old version of Kong). Make sure the field is not commented out.

plugins = bundled,moesif         # Comma-separated list of plugins this node
                                 # should load. By default, only plugins
                                 # bundled in official distributions are
                                 # loaded via the `bundled` keyword.

If you don’t have a kong.conf, create one from the default using the following command: cp /etc/kong/kong.conf.default /etc/kong/kong.conf

Restart Kong

After LuaRocks is installed, restart Kong before enabling the plugin

kong restart

Enable the Moesif plugin

curl -i -X POST --url http://localhost:8001/plugins/ --data "name=moesif" --data "config.application_id=YOUR_APPLICATION_ID";

Restart Kong again

If you don’t see any logs in Moesif, you may need to restart Kong again.

kong restart

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