I built an open-source tool to make on-call suck less
Hey HN, I am building an open source platform to make on-call better and less stressful for engineers. We are building a tool that can silence alerts and help with debugging and root cause analysis. We also want to automate tedious parts of being on-call (running runbooks manually, answering questions on Slack, dealing with Pagerduty). Here is a quick video of how it works: https://youtu.be/m_K9Dq1kZDw I hated being on-call for a couple of reasons: * Alert volume: The number of alerts kept increasing over time. It was hard to maintain existing alerts. This would lead to a lot…
I built an open-source tool to make on-call suck less launched on July 27, 2024 with 319 votes, #157 of 5,184 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
This open-source platform helps engineers reduce on-call stress by managing alert volume, automating routine tasks, and speeding up incident response. It provides alert silencing, debugging assistance, root cause analysis, and automation for running runbooks and handling Pagerduty notifications. The tool is designed for software engineers dealing with noisy alerts and time-consuming on-call responsibilities.
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From the sources
Opslane finds the bugs your users run into by watching real user sessions, and writes the fix. You review and merge. - opslane/opslane
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey HN, I am building an open source platform to make on-call better and less stressful for engineers. We are building a tool that can silence alerts and help with debugging and root cause analysis. We also want to automate tedious parts of being on-call (running runbooks manually, answering questions on Slack…
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