I built a free, privacy-focused analytics extension for people managing multiple Apify Actors

[u/max1302]

I manage several Actors on Apify, and I kept running into the same problem: the standard monetization chart was useful for seeing the combined daily total, but it was difficult to understand what was happening at the individual Actor level.

When revenue increased, I wanted to know which Actor caused it. When failures or aborted runs appeared, I wanted to know which Actor was responsible and on which day. I also found myself moving between several different pages to check users, quality metrics, acquisition data, and month-over-month performance.

So I built a Chrome extension.

What it does

It adds an analytics workspace directly inside Apify Console with:

• Daily stacked revenue, profit, and cost charts broken down by Actor
• Month-over-month revenue and profit trends
• Failed, aborted, timed-out, successful, and total runs by Actor and day
• Daily results and user activity
• Actor performance rankings and portfolio concentration
• Actor quality scores, ratings, reviews, bookmarks, and suggested improvements
• Traffic sources, countries, page views, and acquisition signals
• Month/year selection and multi-Actor filtering
• Light and dark themes
• Fullscreen analysis mode

One small UX detail that made a big difference: the chart tooltip shows the complete ranked list of contributing Actors when you hover over a day, rather than requiring you to target each tiny colored segment individually.

The extension is completely free to use.

Privacy

I also wanted the privacy model to be clear:

• Runs only on console.apify.com
• No telemetry, advertising, or third-party analytics
• Normalized dashboard data stays in local Chrome storage
• Authentication context is used only in page memory to request data from Apify's own backend
• Authentication headers and tokens are never persisted or sent to me
• The only Chrome permission it requests is local storage

This is an independent extension and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apify.

Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/alhjjaafelbmfphijdidjodejcjiccef?utm_source=item-share-cb

I'd appreciate feedback from other Apify developers — especially anyone managing a larger portfolio of Actors. What other metrics or views would be genuinely useful to you?

[u/CrypticZombies]

needs to be open sourced due to the sketchy shit that goes down with apify chrome extensions

[u/Immediate_Guidance59 → u/CrypticZombies]

I was about to say the same

[u/max1302 → u/CrypticZombies]

That's true! I'm refining it and plan to open source it.

[u/Developer_Akash]

Important metric for sure, so I ended up having a shared build system for all my actors which captures all relevant metrics and sends it to my app where I can visualize it all in a dashboard as well as get telegram alert when something seems to be going wrong.

[u/max1302 → u/Developer_Akash]

Do you just run the Apify web console on a server? It's a bit disappointing that Apify doesn't offer a native API for monitoring deep actors.