watchtower
Self-hosted error tracking. A drop-in for Sentry and AppSignal SDKs: one Go binary and Postgres, with Slack, Linear, email and an MCP server for coding agents.
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Details
- External ID
- 1403102927
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- watchtower
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 17
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.39
- Tags
- appsignal, crash-reporting, docker, elixir, error-monitoring, error-tracking, golang, mcp, mcp-server, observability, postgres, self-hosted, sentry
Enrichment
- Niche
- developer infrastructure for coding agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- self-hosted error tracking for sentry and appsignal sdks
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a self-hosted Go backend paired with PostgreSQL that accepts Sentry SDK payload schemas, stores errors, and notifies webhook targets like Slack or Linear.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 402 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #235 of 403 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 337 days after the earliest competitor.
- Epure · ph · 2026-10-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Gnat · hn · 2026-08-14 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- I built a self-hosted error tracker in Rails · hn · 2025-10-31 · 75 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Proval · hn · 2026-08-27 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Superlog (YC P26) · hn · 2026-05-19 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- fleet · github · 2026-10-09 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Watches user sessions, finds bugs that matter, and fixes them · hn · 2026-08-27 · 40 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Quokka · hn · 2026-09-18 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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