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Jod

Conversational observability with MCP, no more dashboard juggling

Details

External ID
45780829
Source
HN
Company
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Product
Jod
Website domain
jodmcp.com
Launched
Nov. 1, 2025
Cohort
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Upvotes
9
Upvotes percentile
0.4868995633187773
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.

Description

Hi, Prastik & Gaurab here. We’re building Jod(https://jodmcp.com), a project that grew out of our own frustration with current troubleshooting and observability workflows. Jod lets you chat with your logs to debug issues, generate on-demand dashboards, analyze service health, and monitor with ease, all from a single chat window.You can ask things like:“Why did latency spike last night?” “Show me 5xx errors from the payments service.” “Create a time series graph showing error counts for the last 6 hours.”..and Jod will pull, summarize, or even visualize the answers for you.Before Jod, we spent countless hours digging through CloudWatch and deployment logs, juggling 10+ dashboards just to trace one issue. It often took as much time as writing the actual code. During incidents, things got even worse, too much noise, endless context switching, and a lot of repetitive work. We figured we couldn’t be the only ones feeling that pain, so we decided to build something that could make the process a little easier.Right now, Jod connects to CloudWatch through an MCP server, which streams responses to the backend over SSE, and the client displays everything in a conversational interface. You can ask questions about your logs, request visualizations with the @Graph annotation, or dig deeper into errors and trends. We’ve actually debugged and fixed multiple issues in Jod’s own codebase using Jod itself.That said, it’s still early days, and there’s a lot we want to improve. On our short-term roadmap, we plan to:- Add support for metrics and traces, not just logs.- Expand to other providers like Azure and GCP.- Release a standalone MCP server so developers can plug it into their own AI clients.If any of this resonates with you, we’d love for you to try it out: https://jodmcp.com. It’s free to get started!We’d really appreciate your feedback, bug reports, and suggestions on this. Thank you.

Enrichment

Theme
desktop and messaging chat assistants
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Observability & eval
Audience
Developer
AI stance
AI feature
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
conversational observability platform
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Partial Conversational UI and standard MCP wrappers are easy to vibe-code, but querying, aggregating, and analyzing massive distributed log streams in production requires serious data infrastructure.

What it would actually take: A production-grade implementation requires connectors into diverse telemetry backends (ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, Elastic, Datadog), streaming query parsers, dynamic dashboard generation logic, and contextual window pruning for massive log lines. The hard part is translating ambiguous natural-language queries into performant log queries without timing out or hallucinating metric aggregations across gigabytes of telemetry data.

Discussion

4 comments analyzed.

Feature requests: Becoming more of a teammate that suggests fixes, Adding other MCP servers

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 37 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #27 of 38 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Looks like the first mover among its competitors.

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