Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Automated code instrumentation for structured events
Hey HN! Sam, Alex and Ben from Invaria (formerly Patchwork Technologies): http://invaria.io. Observability is built on telemetry (metrics, logs and traces). Telemetry data quality is often poor because instrumenting code is still a time consuming task which requires a lot of hand-finishing. We believe that structured event data is the right end goal, and we’re starting by making it easier to get there using structured logging. For our Launch HN (Aug), we set up a demo instance with pre-baked results. We wanted to go further to allow HN readers to give the product a proper test…
Invaria automates the instrumentation of code to generate structured event data for observability systems. The tool reduces the manual work typically required to create high-quality telemetry through structured… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Automated code instrumentation for structured events launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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OpenTelemetry-native observability for agents and LLMs
Aug 2026 · openobserve.ai · its alternatives →
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superlog▲497Hey HN, we’re Nico and Arseniy, co-founders of Superlog (https://superlog.sh). We're building a self-installing, self healing observability tool meant not to be opened. It has a wizard that daily sets up proper logging and an agent that investigates errors and opens PRs. Super short demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFhU9Mk247M. In our earlier startups, we tried Sentry, Datadog, Grafana, Dash0, and nothing was good enough. Proper telemetry and alerting still requires a ton of manual setup. We struggled with adding good logs, so debugging was tough, especially as…
Jun 2026 · superlog.sh · its alternatives →
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An open source observability stack for your backends
2023 · autometrics.dev · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, Nir, Gal and Tomer here. We’re open-sourcing a set of extensions we’ve built on top of OpenTelemetry that provide visibility into LLM applications - whether it be prompts, vector DBs and more. Here’s the repo: https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry. There’s already a decent number of tools for LLM observability, some open-source and some not. But what we found was missing for all of them is that they were closed-protocol by design, vendor-locking you to use their observability platform or their proprietary framework for running your LLMs. It’s still early in the…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Middleware▲633Observability copilot to resolve production issues instantly
2023 · middleware.io · its alternatives →
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If you've built any web-based app in the last 15 years, you probably used something like Datadog, New Relic, Sentry, etc. to monitor and trace your app, right? Why should it be different when the app you're building happens to be using LLMs? So today we're open-sourcing OpenLLMetry-JS. It's an open protocol and SDK, based on OpenTelemetry, that provides traces and metrics for LLM JS/TS applications and can be connected to any of the 15+ tools that already support OpenTelemetry. Here's the repo: https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry-js A few months ago we launched…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Langfuse▲771Open source tracing and analytics for LLM applications
2023 · langfuse.com · its alternatives →
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TraceRoot.AI▲342Fix bugs faster with open source, AI native observability
2025 · traceroot.ai · its alternatives →
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Preempt performance and scaling issues in pre-production
2025 · digma.ai · its alternatives →
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A high-performance observability data pipeline. Contribute to vectordotdev/vector development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Telemetry▲135Enabling developers to harness the power of data
2024 · telemetry.sh · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! We’re the team behind Fiddler, and we recently built an Agent Cache feature. It works by capturing an LLM request/response pair and, once caching is enabled, serving subsequent matching calls locally so duplicate requests never hit the provider. It’s meant to reduce three pains that show up together in agent development: token cost, feedback-loop latency, and output non-determinism. We’d love to hear your thoughts.
Aug 2026 · telerik.com · its alternatives →
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Mezmo runs agentic SRE on your own infrastructure: AURA is an open-source agent harness, and Mezmo's telemetry pipelines feed it in-stream operational context.
2016 · logdna.com · its alternatives →
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A common open source approach to observability will begin with databases and visualizations for telemetry - Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger. But observability doesn’t begin and end here: these tools require configuration, dashboard customization, and may not actually pinpoint the data you need to mitigate system risks. Coroot was designed to solve the problem of manual, time-consuming observability analysis: it handles the full observability journey — from collecting telemetry to turning it into actionable insights. We also strongly believe that simple observability should be an innovation…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Uptrace is an all-in-one tool that supports distributed tracing, metrics, and logs. It uses OpenTelelemetry observability framework to collect data and ClickHouse database to store it. You can ingest data using OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), Vector Logs, and Zipkin API. You can also use OpenTelemetry Collector to collect Prometheus metrics or receive data from Jaeger, X Ray, Apache, PostgreSQL, MySQL and many more. The latest Uptrace release introduces support for OpenTelemetry Metrics which includes: - User interface to build table-based and grid-based dashboards. - Pre-built dashboard…
2022 · app.uptrace.dev · its alternatives →
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Hey HN – Stefan and Elijah here from DAGWorks (http://dagworks.io/, YC W23). If you don’t remember us from our previous HN launch (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35056903), we’re the authors of Hamilton (https://github.com/dagworks-inc/hamilton), an open-source library for building self-documenting, modular dataflows in python that works for data, ML, LLM pipelines, & even web-workflows. We’ve been developing this UI for a while and we’re excited to say we open-sourced it! It comes out of the box with the following capabilities, and…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello Everyone, I'm excited to introduce a new open-source observability platform and would love to hear your feedback. We are aware that there are lots of open-source/commercial tools out there. However, we believe that monitoring the clusters and extracting actionable insights requires deep know-how about the tools/domain. We mainly focused on this problem. - Alaz is an eBPF agent installed on your K8s cluster as DaemonSet. Thanks to eBPF, Alaz collects traces directly from Linux kernels. This means there's no need for sidecars, instrumentations, or service restarts. - The UI not…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open source APM: OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs - uptrace/uptrace
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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With the OpenDataDiscovery Platform, you can collect metadata from any data source, regardless of format or location. This powerful platform provides data discovery, observability, and trust for your entire data pipeline.
2022 · opendatadiscovery.org · its alternatives →
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