# External API caching insights now in Observability

**Published:** May 22, 2025 | **Authors:** Tobias Lins, Timo Lins, Ethan Shea

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[The Observability dashboard](https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F~%2Fobservability&title=Go+to+Observability) now surfaces caching behavior for external API calls using Vercel Data Cache.

External APIs page, you’ll see a new column indicating how many requests were served from the cache vs. the origin.

Caching insights are available per hostname for all users, and per path for Observability Plus subscribers.

View the [external API dashboard](https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%5Bproject%5D%2Fobservability%2Fexternal-apis&title=Go+to+Observability+External+API+dashboard) or learn more about [Vercel Data Cache](https://vercel.com/docs/data-cache).

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