Hey everyone — I’ve noticed a lot of us
Hey everyone — I’ve noticed a lot of us are worried about cost vs revenue lately. The tricky part is that some actors can silently drain profit, and on top of that it’s a pain to manually paginate through the console to check stats for every actor.
I’ve had this idea for a while and was using it internally, but today I finally cleaned it up and turned it into a proper project:
What it does
Pulls account-level analytics from Apify’s API
Fetches per-actor details, aggregates everything, and generates a clean report
The report includes things like:
Paid vs free users gained
Runs / success rate / failed runs
Revenue, cost, margin
Actors that look “healthy” vs “needs attention” (based on changes/spikes)
How it works
First run: it creates a baseline snapshot (nothing to compare yet)
Next runs (manual or scheduled): it compares against the previous snapshot and sends a detailed “what changed” report so you can quickly spot what’s improving or quietly hurting profit.
You basically get a daily view of: how many paid/free users ran your actors, what failed, what spiked in cost, what moved in revenue, etc.
You can choose to get the report through email or if not provided it will generate the report and provide a link to kv store item.
You can run it with schedule to automatically run and provide you the report
The code + actor are open source — PRs are welcome. Docs have the setup and details.
GitHub: https://github.com/thenetaji/apify-actor-monitor
Apify: https://apify.com/thenetaji/apify-actor-monitor
I’ve had this idea for a while and was using it internally, but today I finally cleaned it up and turned it into a proper project:
What it does
Pulls account-level analytics from Apify’s API
Fetches per-actor details, aggregates everything, and generates a clean report
The report includes things like:
Paid vs free users gained
Runs / success rate / failed runs
Revenue, cost, margin
Actors that look “healthy” vs “needs attention” (based on changes/spikes)
How it works
First run: it creates a baseline snapshot (nothing to compare yet)
Next runs (manual or scheduled): it compares against the previous snapshot and sends a detailed “what changed” report so you can quickly spot what’s improving or quietly hurting profit.
You basically get a daily view of: how many paid/free users ran your actors, what failed, what spiked in cost, what moved in revenue, etc.
You can choose to get the report through email or if not provided it will generate the report and provide a link to kv store item.
You can run it with schedule to automatically run and provide you the report
The code + actor are open source — PRs are welcome. Docs have the setup and details.
GitHub: https://github.com/thenetaji/apify-actor-monitor
Apify: https://apify.com/thenetaji/apify-actor-monitor
