Observability-first API gateway for monitoring high-traffic internal ecosystems
Enterprise teams struggle with API gateway tools unable to securely handle high-traffic internal services.
NexusShield proxies internal services with deep observability, providing traces, metrics, and AI insights into performance bottlenecks. Teams get a unified dashboard correlating logs across services for instant debugging. It scales seamlessly while prioritizing full visibility.
Enterprise engineering and DevOps teams managing high-traffic internal services
AI-driven root-cause analysis from end-to-end traces, reducing MTTR by 80%
supportive
End-to-end request tracing across services
Automated bottleneck detection
Build service-specific views
Centralized structured logs
Threshold-based notifications
Auto-discover services in clusters
Metrics push compatibility
Service Level Objective monitoring
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| name | text | No |
| plan | text | No |
| created_at | timestamp | No |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| text | No | |
| org_id | uuid | No |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| org_id | uuid | No |
| service_name | text | No |
| endpoint | text | No |
| created_at | timestamp | No |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| shield_id | uuid | No |
| trace_data | jsonb | No |
| latency_ms | int | No |
| timestamp | timestamp | No |
Relationships:
/api/shieldsCreate monitoring shield
/api/shields/:id/tracesQuery traces
/api/insightsGet AI insights
/api/alertsCreate alert rule
No AI insights
Basic alerts
Custom integrations
| Month | Users | Conversion | MRR | ARR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month 1 | 120 | 2.5% | $105 | $1,260 |
| Month 6 | 700 | 6% | $1,470 | $17,640 |
NexusShield delivers traces, insights, and alerts to fix issues before they hit production.
Post in r/sre and observability Slack groups offering free traces analysis; cold email 25 SREs from recent outage tweets. Demo at one virtual Observability Day event.
Comprehensive
Expensive for internal only
Gateway-integrated, affordable focus
Tracing depth
Complex setup
Proxy-simple deployment
Network effects from shared anonymized trace benchmarks across users
Observability fatigue with tools not covering internal gateways in hybrid cloud era
High data volume storage
Supabase partitioning + sampling
Tool sprawl preference
Superior integration ease
Success: 7 want observability gateway
Success: 10% trial conversion
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