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AI · June 17, 2026

Spanly

Hi HN, I'm Tim, solo founder of Spanly (https://spanly.com). I spent the last year working on MCP gateways, and debugging them with nothing better than HTTP-level APM was painful. Spanly runs its own MCP server and monitors it with itself, so I've been the first user of everything below. Spanly is observability for MCP servers, the protocol that lets agents like Claude and Cursor call your product's tools. It's a sidecar proxy, so it works with any language and requires zero code changes. Live demo (no signup): https://app.spanly.com/share/demo Sidecar source…

Spanly launched on June 17, 2026 with 77 votes, #549 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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What it does

Soon, more agents than humans will use your product via MCP. Spanly gives you full observability on the MCP server you ship: error rates, session traces, latency, client analytics, deploy alerts. Drop-in CLI or SDK. US & EU data residency. Built for SaaS engineering teams shipping MCP in production, alongside the Datadog, Sentry, or New Relic you already run.

Observability for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Built for SaaS engineering teams shipping MCP in production, alongside the Datadog, Sentry, or New Relic you already run.

Every client calls your MCP server differently, and your customer finds out first. Free scan in 30 seconds, no code changes. Monitoring names which client is skipping your tools. Spanly analyzed 11,127 production MCP servers today. That's how it can tell you a tool name is why agents pick the wrong tool, or a schema is why they pass bad arguments, not just that p95 moved. Patches tested on a slice of live sessions, then applied to every session until you ship them to your source. Health monitors connect to your MCP servers on a schedule, list their tools, prompts and resources, and alert your channels when a server goes down. Agents don't file bug reports. Attackers don't ask permission.…from spanly.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi HN, I'm Tim, solo founder of Spanly (https://spanly.com). I spent the last year working on MCP gateways, and debugging them with nothing better than HTTP-level APM was painful. Spanly runs its own MCP server and monitors it with itself, so I've been the first user of everything below. Spanly is…

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