When your application is live and heavily used, you can't check the status of every feature yourself; it would lead to an impossible amount of work. Apollo Engine can tell you how your GraphQL API is performing by collecting statistics with each request that's received. You always have an overview of the general usage of your application, the number of requests it receives, the request latency, the time taken to process each operation, the type, and also each field that is returned. Apollo Server can provide these precise analytics, since each field is represented in a resolver function. The time elapsed to resolve each field is then collected and stored inside Apollo Engine.
At the top of the Metrics page, you have four tabs. The first tab will look as follows:
If your GraphQL API is running for more than a day, you'll receive...