Offering customers a variety of ways to pay for your product allows for flexibility and ease. In general, there are two ways for customers to pay for usage: Post-paid and pre-paid. Pre-paid is sometimes also referred to as PAYG, or Pay-As-You-Go. Post-paid usage can sometimes lead customers to have billing surprises if they are not tracking their usage closely. This can cause headaches for these users and can also cause issues for the service provider.

Many API developers and companies struggle to find ways to easily set up systems to monetize their APIs. Some are simple but not customizable, some are complex and require massive engineering effort to actually get it all running. To make things easier, Moesif created a feature a few months ago called Billing Meters which gives massive customizability but with a minimal amount of code and engineering effort.

At Moesif, we’ve put a lot of work into improving viewing details and trends for specific users and companies. This includes our recent addition of adding profile dashboards to add individual and reusable charts to user and company profiles Now, we’ve added even further functionality by allowing users to customize what each individual user and companies profile view looks like.

API providers need to observe their APIs to get meaningful data about whether and how they are consumed in practice. API observability is a form of monitoring that passively logs API traffic to an observability service. Different from traditional API monitoring, with API observability you: Monitor interactions to improve developer experience Understand how customers use your API Troubleshoot your API Observing REST APIs is well understood and supported, but not every API is a REST API.