[djmashko2]

Hi sumobob! Sashko here - open source lead at Apollo

I'm glad you've been having a great time using Apollo. I hope we've been up front with the idea that we have commercial products since the start, and I think monitoring and analytics are reasonable places to do that since pretty much all of these services are paid. We also provide paid support to large companies trying to move to GraphQL and Apollo.

On the other hand, I'm excited that having a business model will continue enabling us to build great tools, and open source as much as possible. We've been very careful to make sure that all of our tools are decoupled and flexible, and don't lock you into using any other part of the stack. For example, the monitoring in Engine is based on an open source specification called Apollo Tracing: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-tracing

In fact you could turn on tracing in your GraphQL server and pipe that data into any service you want, so it's pretty straightforward to avoid using Engine if you don't feel it's a good value for you!

Happy to answer any other questions, we're going to keep working on our stuff! Sashko

[sumobob]

I love your stuff, I've just seen this play in action through the meteor community and how kadira grew and everything thats happened since then.

You know what they say, once burned, twice shy.