One base URL change. Nothing else in your code.

DriftWatch is a drop-in proxy that speaks the OpenAI and Anthropic wire formats. Replace your SDK's base URL with api.driftwatchproxy.com/v1, add your DriftWatch key header, and every request is pruned, validated and logged.

1. 1

   Create a DriftWatch key

   Sign up, open API Settings and generate a key. It looks like dw_live_secret_… and is shown once — store it in your secret manager.

2. 2

   Point your SDK at the proxy

   Change only the base URL. Your provider key stays yours: DriftWatch forwards it upstream and never persists it.

3. 3

   Pick a pruning level

   Send x-driftwatch-prune with off, conservative, balanced or aggressive. Start on balanced — typically 30-45% fewer input tokens.

4. 4

   Verify in the dashboard

   Your first proxied request appears in Latency & Logs within seconds, with raw vs pruned payloads side by side.

Copy a snippet

curl https://api.driftwatchproxy.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \
  -H "x-driftwatch-key: $DRIFTWATCH_KEY" \
  -H "x-driftwatch-prune: balanced" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "gpt-4o",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Summarise this ticket." }]
  }'

npm i @driftwatch/node
# or
pip install driftwatch