How it works

Three steps.
Nothing to install.

ServiceHop sits alongside your existing stack. It reads traffic, models it, and produces findings you can act on. No agents in the critical path. No code changes.

01
Ingest

Point your traffic at ServiceHop.

ServiceHop receives API traffic through a lightweight forwarder or an existing ingestion point — whichever is less intrusive to your stack. No SDK. No agents in the critical path. No code changes.

02
Analyze

Every call is modeled, not just counted.

Traffic is profiled structurally and semantically. Fields are classified, endpoints are fingerprinted, flows are reconstructed end-to-end, and services are grouped by behavioral signature across the entire portfolio.

03
Generate

Findings you can act on — each with its evidence.

ServiceHop produces findings: redundancies, cacheability opportunities, merge candidates, traffic that adds no value. Every finding is traceable to the real traffic that justified it.

What it sees

Four primitives.

ServiceHop reduces the noise of telemetry to four things that actually describe a system.

Calls

Every API call: headers, payloads, latency, response shape — sampled and classified.

Services

What each endpoint actually does, derived from how its traffic behaves.

Sessions

Related calls grouped into a single user or system journey.

Flows

Multi-service transactions reconstructed end-to-end from real traffic.

How to ask

Three modes of analysis.

The same primitives, asked three different questions.

01
Snapshot

A complete picture of your system right now — what exists, what matters, what's wasteful.

02
Comparison

What's changed between two points in time — new services, drift, structural shifts.

03
Investigation

Start from one finding and follow the evidence to the structural decision behind it.

Technical foundations

Six things that make it work.

Not a list of buzzwords — the actual capabilities ServiceHop is built around.

Semantic classification

Request and response fields are typed by purpose — identifiers, queries, metadata, errors — not by name. Two services with different schemas can still be recognized as equivalent.

Flow reconstruction

Multi-service transactions rebuilt end-to-end from raw traffic. Topology, latency accumulation, and structural dependencies — without distributed tracing.

Cacheability simulation

Replays real traffic against cache strategies before you ship them. Quantifies hit rate, response similarity, and the risk of incorrect reuse.

Evidence-backed findings

Every finding ships with the calls that justified it. Auditable, drillable, replayable — never a black-box recommendation.

Deterministic

Facts and findings are computed from clearly-stated thresholds. AI is used for narrative summary only — never to invent the underlying numbers.

Self-hosted

All data stays on your infrastructure. No vendor lock-in, no telemetry leaves your network. Works in air-gapped environments.

See what it looks like
on real traffic.

Sample analysis · one finding, end to end

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