software observability platforms
Recent window: last 5.4 months
(2026-05-01 → 2026-10-11), compared with the prior
5.4 months.
horizontal · 63 members ·
Data as of 2026-10-14
Software observability platforms aggregate and analyze telemetry data like logs, metrics, and traces to help engineering and DevOps teams monitor application health. Unlike standalone logging tools or basic uptime monitors, these platforms correlate cross-stack data to automatically diagnose root causes and accelerate incident resolution across distributed systems.
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Pulled from real Hacker News comment threads on this niche's launches.
Most asked for
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Adding other MCP servers (1)
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API for other tools to integrate Superlog (1)
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Becoming more of a teammate that suggests fixes (1)
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Better explanation of API key requirement in documentation (1)
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Better handling of attribute cardinality for AI workloads with high-entropy data (1)
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Calibrated humility mode that acknowledges when it can't see full impact (1)
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Capture raw HTTP layer alongside traces for production debugging (1)
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ClickHouse backend support (1)
Concerns raised
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AI part is experimental and hit-or-miss depending on model (1)
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Alpha software not ready for production use (1)
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Auto-fix breaks subtle invariant bugs and non-obvious code patterns (1)
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Auto-instrumentation cardinality explosion at scale (high storage costs) (1)
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Auto-patching may silence alerts instead of fixing root causes (1)
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Documentation appears AI-generated without human review/editing (1)
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Documentation requires login and search doesn't work (1)
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Doesn't clearly show what 'high confidence' threshold means before running (1)
Compared to
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ClickHouse (2)
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Prometheus (2)
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Bro/Zeek IDS (1)
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Claude code (1)
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Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI (1)
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Cloudflare's Prometheus exporter for eBPF (1)
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Datadog (1)
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disk-based data stores (1)
Members
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Name
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Source
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Upvotes ▼
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Launched
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| superlog |
PH |
497 |
2026-06-03 |
| OpenObserve |
PH |
304 |
2026-03-18 |
| ZCodium |
GITHUB |
119 |
2026-09-23 |
| KloudMate 2.0 |
PH |
111 |
2026-10-08 |
| vibesmonitor.com |
PH |
95 |
2026-10-13 |
| Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min |
HN |
88 |
2026-10-06 |
| Superlog (YC P26) |
HN |
74 |
2026-05-19 |
| Torrix, self hosted, LLM Observability,(no Postgres, no Redis) |
HN |
74 |
2026-05-13 |
| Superlog: The self-installing observability tool that fixes your bugs |
YC |
69 |
2026-05-12 |
| Sazabi - Datadog for the AI Era |
YC |
44 |
2026-06-01 |
| Nightwatch, The open-source, read-only AI SRE |
HN |
33 |
2026-06-07 |
| Linnix |
HN |
21 |
2025-11-11 |
| FalconDash |
GITHUB |
17 |
2026-09-11 |
| watchtower |
GITHUB |
17 |
2026-10-03 |
| Observer |
GITHUB |
15 |
2026-10-06 |
| tayga |
GITHUB |
15 |
2026-10-07 |
| piserver |
GITHUB |
13 |
2026-09-13 |
| Timberlogs |
HN |
13 |
2026-01-13 |
| ML condenses billions of logs into a tiny snapshot your LLM can debug |
HN |
13 |
2026-06-17 |
| Oodle |
HN |
11 |
2025-11-04 |
| Glintlog |
HN |
10 |
2026-02-04 |
| rails_event_viewer |
GITHUB |
10 |
2026-09-29 |
| Telescope now queries Kubernetes logs directly |
HN |
9 |
2026-02-16 |
| Jod |
HN |
9 |
2025-11-01 |
| SIEMatic, a fair-sourced observability and security platform |
HN |
9 |
2026-08-04 |
| I ditched Grafana for my home server and built this instead |
HN |
9 |
2025-11-17 |
| SiClaw |
HN |
9 |
2026-03-08 |
| jevlogs |
GITHUB |
8 |
2026-09-17 |
| AIops-platform |
GITHUB |
8 |
2026-09-13 |
| A tool to properly observe your LLM's context window |
HN |
8 |
2025-10-30 |
| Syncline |
PH |
8 |
2026-09-14 |
| Calm Engineering Dashboard |
HN |
8 |
2026-07-05 |
| comminsight |
GITHUB |
8 |
2026-09-09 |
| Bloomberg Terminal for LLM ops |
HN |
7 |
2026-04-13 |
| dllog |
GITHUB |
7 |
2026-09-11 |
| I built an open-source, local-first alternative to LangSmith |
HN |
6 |
2026-05-08 |
| Lumina |
HN |
6 |
2026-01-25 |
| Pulp |
HN |
5 |
2026-08-11 |
| Dev-friendly native OTel: only OSS stateful, on-the-wire Observability |
HN |
5 |
2026-06-16 |
| Service Level Objectives · Dash0 |
PH |
5 |
2026-09-18 |
| Logchef |
HN |
5 |
2025-12-22 |
| Trel.to |
PH |
3 |
2026-09-19 |
| Vectory |
PH |
2 |
2026-10-07 |
| PromPilot |
PH |
2 |
2026-09-19 |
| Lerix |
PH |
2 |
2026-09-23 |
| DockLog |
PH |
2 |
2026-10-02 |
| Tayga |
PH |
2 |
2026-10-09 |
| LogFrog |
PH |
1 |
2026-09-22 |
| RELIASTRA |
PH |
1 |
2026-09-11 |
| Logsblox |
PH |
1 |
2026-09-23 |