The API Economics Observatory

 Build an API Economics Observatory that reveals the true cost and business value of individual API endpoints. Allow users to import request logs, infrastructure costs, latency metrics, and revenue or usage data. Calculate cost per request, cost per successful transaction, expensive query patterns, retry overhead, and endpoints whose resource consumption is disproportionate to their value. Create interactive dependency maps, percentile latency analysis, and optimization simulations. Support configurable cost models for compute, storage, network traffic, and third-party API calls. Clearly separate measured costs from estimates, explain every calculation, and never invent metrics when the required data is missing.