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DEVTOOL · API OBSERVABILITYKensink Labs lab project

OpenAPI Studio.
End-to-end API visibility — security to automation.

Built on a conviction.

End-to-end
Security → observability → automation
API MANAGEMENT PLATFORMDEVTOOL · API OBSERVABILITY

OpenAPI Studio — End-to-end API visibility — security to automation. Built on a conviction.

Most teams treat APIs as the seam between systems. We think APIs are the system. OpenAPI Studio gives engineering teams end-to-end visibility across their API estate — from security posture to runtime observability to automated quality checks.

End-to-end
Security → observability → automation
OpenAPI-first
Spec is the source of truth
Lab
Project · pre-launch
Conviction
Built without a product brief
01 · THE PROBLEM

Where they were stuck.

API observability is fragmented: one tool for local testing, another for runtime errors, a separate auth/security scanner, yet another for OpenAPI lint. Engineering teams stitch these together with spit and glue, then nobody owns the resulting hairball. The conviction: if APIs are the foundation of every modern integration, they deserve a first-class observability platform.

02 · OUR APPROACH

How we built it.

  • 01OpenAPI-spec-first: every endpoint discovered, audited, and monitored against its declared contract
  • 02Security posture layer: detects missing auth, broken object-level authorization, and the classic OWASP API Top 10
  • 03Runtime observability: latency, error rate, payload-shape drift over time, surfaced per endpoint
  • 04Automated quality checks: contract tests generated from the OpenAPI spec, run in CI on every PR
  • 05Cross-team visibility: one dashboard for security + platform + API consumer teams — they look at the same surface
“API quality and observability are the foundation of any modern integration architecture. If you don't see it, you don't have it.”
Lab engineering
Kensink Labs internal
[TECH STACK]
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Edge serverless
  • Postgres
  • OpenAPI 3.x
[ENGAGEMENT]
DurationOngoing (lab project)
ClientKensink Labs lab project
ShapeAPI MANAGEMENT PLATFORM
HandoffFull ownership · 90-day warranty
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