Lobster Programming

Apr 8, 2026 · Big Data

How to Implement Real‑Time API Traffic Counting at Scale

This article compares three practical approaches—direct database storage, a Flink‑Kafka‑Redis‑Grafana pipeline, and an ELK stack—to achieve real‑time API request counting for high‑concurrency scenarios, outlining their architectures, advantages, and trade‑offs.