Apollo Optics is a tool for monitoring and analyzing GraphQL servers, which can help with performance, scalability, and cost savings. It integrates easily with Scaphold, a simple tool for creating GraphQL APIs, allowing users to create analytics dashboards that provide insights into request order and response times. By using Apollo Optics, developers can identify unnecessary calls and optimize their queries, leading to time and money savings. The tool provides a beautiful dashboard and automatically introspects the inputs and outputs of an API's endpoints, making it easy to visualize query performance and make data-driven decisions.