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Airtable shows you the base, but not what's happening to it over the API. There's no record of individual calls — who read a record, who changed one, from where, or how often. Go straight to the API and that history simply doesn't exist. The moment more than one person, or one runaway script, is hitting your base, that blindness is a real problem.

Because every request runs through the proxy, VibeKit can log each one on its own: the endpoint, the records involved, the time, and the caller. It's an entire layer of observability Airtable doesn't provide — a black box turned into a record you can actually read.

See who's using your API, and how much

Every call is recorded and attributed, so you can see which people and projects are active, how much of your base's traffic each is driving, and how close you are to Airtable's rate limits — from real activity, not guesswork.

Give your team access, not your key

You don't have to hand a teammate the Airtable token to let them build against the base. They go through the proxy instead, each with their own scoped access, and every request they make shows up in the log under their name. Revoke someone and their access ends — the key itself never moved.

An audit trail for security

The token stays server-side (see token vault) and every call is traced, so if something looks wrong you can prove exactly what happened: which request, from whom, against which records. It's the difference between hoping your data is used safely and being able to check.