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Introduction	Apitally is an API monitoring & analytics tool for Python and Node.js web applications that is easy to use and respects your data privacy.

Explore

Find out whether Apitally is the right tool for your needs.

Discover the dashboards, insights and alerts Apitally provides for your API. Learn how Apitally integrates with your application.

Quickstart

Learn how to start monitoring your REST API in less than 5 minutes.

[Sign up](https://app.apitally.io/?signup) to create an account if you don't have one yet. Then click the *Create app* button on the dashboard. Provide a name and select the framework your application is using. Follow the instructions on the dashboard to add the Apitally middleware or plugin to your application. It's just a small dependency to install and a couple of lines of code to copy & paste. Deploy your application, or restart it if you're testing locally. Apitally will start monitoring your API and you'll see the first data in the dashboard within a few seconds.

For more detailed instructions, including how to identify API consumers, select your framework from the options below.

} href="/frameworks/django-ninja" > Python } href="/frameworks/django-rest-framework" > Python } href="/frameworks/express" > Node.js } href="/frameworks/fastapi" > Python } href="/frameworks/fastify" > Node.js } href="/frameworks/flask" > Python } href="/frameworks/hono" > Node.js } href="/frameworks/koa" > Node.js } href="/frameworks/litestar" > Python } href="/frameworks/nestjs" > Node.js } href="/frameworks/starlette" > Python

If the framework you're using is not listed here, and you would like to see it supported, please let us know.