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Spikelog

A simple metrics service for scripts, cron jobs, and MVPs

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Hi all!I built Spikelog because I kept wanting to track simple numbers over time but every time I looked at proper observability tools, I'd bounce off the setup complexity. I wanted to make something that didn't require a lot of thinking to use.Spikelog is made to be as simple as possible:- POST a JSON with chart name + value (you can add some tags as well but I've not tested this part works yet)- Chart appears automatically- 1,000 point rolling window per chart (old data expires, no retention config)- Max 10 chartsThat's basically the whole product.I built it in about a day using Cursor. The API is intentionally minimal so AI assistants can use it too.I have a prompt that lets your coding agent analyze a codebase and add tracking automatically (after you approve the plan).I used it to make Spikelog track itself: https://spikelog.com/p/spikelogThere's no alerting yet (that's next), no complex aggregations, no dashboards beyond the auto-generated charts. If you need real observability use something fully featured like Axiom or Datadog. This is for people who just want to see if a number went up or down and don't want to build that themselves. i.e. they want something slightly better than just logging the number.You can also share the charts publicly and I might add some password protection if there is demand for that.I haven't battle-tested it under heavy load. The rolling window deletion is naive (deletes oldest points on insert). There are probably edge cases I haven't hit yet.Would love feedback, especially if you try it and hit something broken.

HN · launched Nov 27, 2025 · 36 upvotes (top 22%) · 0 views

Niche: web and application performance monitoring tools · 66 launches, 6 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Observability & eval
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product

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Could you build this?

Yes Spikelog is a simple metrics logger with a single ingest endpoint and a dashboard to display time-series graphs.

Discussion

17 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Axiom, OpenObserve, SigNoz, Plausible, vibescaffold.dev

Concerns raised: Difficult to support anything more sophisticated than simple use cases, Integer values displayed as floating points, No straightforward way to separate local and production logs, Requires account creation upfront during onboarding

Feature requests: Recognize integer charts and remove floating point display, Allow trial before requiring account registration, Better separation of local and production environments, Simplify onboarding flow

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 144 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #30 of 145 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 27 days after the earliest competitor.

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