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How ReqKey works
ReqKey is a loop: you set customers up in the dashboard, they call your API with a key, your middleware checks it with ReqKey, and you watch everything happen live. Step through the whole cycle below.
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Set up
Create your project
One click in the dashboard. You get a root_key.
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In one sentence
You configure a project, APIs, and a per-customer consumer (with credits) in the dashboard; you hand each customer an API key; your code runs the ReqKey middleware to validate that key and deduct a credit on every request — optionally shipping the request logs to /ingest — and the dashboard turns all of it into live traffic, key-activity, audit, and alert views.