Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Troubleshoot distributed systems
We'd love your feedback on our MVP, designed to help troubleshoot distributed systems in general, and web applications in particular. It's like Firebug's network tab, but for the backend. http://packetbeat.com
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Troubleshoot distributed systems launched in 2013; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey HN, I wanted to show you a product a small team and I have been working on for 4 years. https://jam.dev It’s called Jam and it prevents product managers (like I used to be) from being able to create vague and un-reproducible bug tickets (like I used to create). It’s actually really hard as a non-engineer to file useful bug tickets for engineers. Like, sometimes I thought I included a screenshot, but the important information the engineer needed was what was actually right outside the boundary of the screenshot I took. Or I'd write that something "didn't work" but the engineer…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Hello, I'm building SadServers.com, a SaaS where users can test their Linux troubleshooting skills on real Linux servers in a "Capture the Flag" fashion. I hope this is useful, to learn more about the project please see https://github.com/fduran/sadservers
2022 · sadservers.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! We’re open-sourcing highlight.io (https://github.com/highlight/highlight), a session replay and error monitoring tool. Highlight.io gives you a high-precision video-like replay of what users are doing when an error or exception occurs in your web app, along with a full-fledged error monitoring experience (similar to bugsnag, rollbar, etc..). The main value prop of highlight.io is that we help you understand the full context surrounding an error and allow you to drill down to the code path that a user invoked (i.e user clicked button X, sent network request Y, and…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've frequently found myself using [nvitop](https://github.com/XuehaiPan/nvitop) to diagnose GPU/CPU contention issues. The two best things about it are: - It's easy to install if I can access pip in the container - It makes a compelling screenshot (which helps me communicate with coworkers.) With those two lessons in mind: Here is Sping! Purpose: Help observe and diagnose latency issues at layer 4+ (TCP/HTTP/HTTPS) Two good things about it: - It's easy to install if you have pip. (Available at…
2025 · dseltzer.gitlab.io · its alternatives →
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How quickly can you debug an error in a distributed system?
2019 · lightstep.com · its alternatives →
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NetworkSpy▲89HTTP(s) proxy debugger with custom viewer
Jun 2026 · networkspy.app · its alternatives →
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IT Manager▲80Monitor your networks and servers from one place
2015 · itmanager.net · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Some misbehaving networks drop WireGuard packets either by accident or on purpose. Commonly the latter is done with simple DPI rules that block the handshake initiation [1], but it could be applied to other message types as well. We thought it would be great if there was tool for folks to use as a quick litmus test to see if this happening for them, without having to configure a client to send data through a random, functional WireGuard tunnel to an untrusted remote host. So we built probe.sh. How it works: - The probe.sh web app is an Elixir Phoenix app that spawns a few gen_udp…
2024 · probe.sh · its alternatives →
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2017 · upflow.space · its alternatives →
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User Feedback for Automated Crash Reports
2016 · blog.sentry.io · its alternatives →
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dish is a lightweight, 0 dependency monitoring tool in the form of a small binary executable. Upon execution, it checks the provided sockets (which can be provided in a JSON file or served by a remote JSON API endpoint). The results of the check are then reported to the configured channels. It started as a learning project and ended up proving quite handy. Me and my friend have been using it to monitor our services for the last 3 years. We have refactored the codebase to be a bit more presentable recently and thought we'd share on here! The currently supported channels include: - Telegram -…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm the CEO at https://replay.io. We've been working on time travel debugging for web development for a while (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28539247) and more recently an AI app builder that uses that debugger to get past problems instead of spinning in circles (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43258585). We've gotten to where we can pretty easily build apps to replace business-critical SaaS tools, some of which we're now using internally: * We built our own issue tracker to keep track of all our development projects, tickets, bug…
Dec 2025 · its alternatives →
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2016 · cloudplatform.googleblog.com · its alternatives →
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AttackerView▲13Last week I wrote about building a scanner that writes its own exploits. A cron job runs Claude Code every night, it reads new CVEs, writes proof-of-concept checks, tests them against vulnerable and patched Docker instances, and opens PRs. I review and merge in the morning. That post was about how t
Feb 2026 · attackerview.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, I built this tool to monitor third-party cloud and SaaS services and send notifications, primarily meant for techops/SRE folks. I built this based on my past work experience where I felt a need for such a tool and had to be satisfied with patched together scripts. E.g. Getting alerted when my public cloud has incidents, my monitoring SaaS is unable to send alerts, GitHub has intermittent issues, Slack has trouble delivering messages, Stripe has payment failures for an edge case, and so on. It was important to catch these issues before they impacted my apps. For paging services, I…
2025 · incidenthub.cloud · its alternatives →
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