Beacon
The open-source layer for local AI agent visibility
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HN · launched May 18, 2026 · 21 upvotes (top 25%) · 0 views
Niche: ai agent observability platforms · 220 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -64% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes Beacon is an open-source observability dashboard and lightweight local server/hook for tracking local AI agent execution traces and telemetry.
Discussion
10 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Crowdstrike EDR, Other security vendors with closed-source solutions
Concerns raised: Existing EDR solutions lag on AI agent observability
Feature requests: OpenClaw integration
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 5013 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1580 of 5014 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 201 days after the earliest competitor.
- Wasmer SDK · hn · 2026-09-01 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- Clawvisor — The Authorization Layer for AI Agents · yc · 2026-05-07 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- AgentSight · hn · 2026-08-21 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- Phantom · hn · 2026-03-30 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- SentinelGate · hn · 2026-03-26 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- open-source-agents · github · 2026-10-20 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- AgentKitten: Swift package for provider-agnostic AI agents · hn · 2026-06-04 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Adam · hn · 2026-05-06 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.68
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