Opslane
Infrastructure
on-call and incident management
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How HN took it
12 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 22 critical, out of 45 comments about the project. Thread score -0.22.
Idea: 10 for, 16 againstPerformance: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good to see more open-source options in this space
From 1 comment
co-founder of merlinn here: https://merlinn.co | https://github.com/merlinn-co/merlinn We're also building a tool in the same space with the option of choosing your own model…
topaztee on HN
Alert-usefulness feedback button idea is valuable
From 1 comment
People do not understand the value of classifying alerts as useful after the fact. At Netflix we built a feature into our alert systems that added a simple button at the top of…
jedberg on HN
Objections
Using an LLM to classify alerts adds risk and does not fix root causes
From 4 comments
It feels to me that using LLM to classify alerts as noisy is just adding risk instead of fixing the root cause of the problem. If an alert is known to be noisy and have appeared…
aflag on HNI don't want to be relying on another flaky LLM for anything mission critical like this. Just fix the original problem, don't layer an LLM into it.
throw156754228 on HNFounder of All Quiet here: https://allquiet.app. We're building a tool in the same space but opted out of using LLMs. We've received a lot of positive feedback from our users who…
mads_quist on HNFiltering whether a notification is important or not through an LLM, when getting it wrong could cause big issues, is mildly concerning to me...
voidUpdate on HN
Tooling cannot fix poor observability and culture problems
From 2 comments
In my current workplace (BigCo), we know exactly what's wrong with our alert system. We get alerts that we can't shut off, because they (legitimately) represent customer…
solatic on HNDon't send an alert at all unless it is actionable. Yes, I get it, you want alerts for everything. Do you have a runbook that can explain to a complete novice what is going on…
throwaway984393 on HN
Tying the tool to Slack restricts where it can be used
From 1 comment
> Slack-native since that has become the de-facto tool for on-call engineers. In your particular organization. Slack is one of many instant messaging platforms. Tightly coupling…
RadiozRadioz on HN
Requests
Support more platforms beyond Slack and integrations beyond Datadog
From 1 comment
> Slack-native since that has become the de-facto tool for on-call engineers. In your particular organization. Slack is one of many instant messaging platforms. Tightly coupling…
RadiozRadioz on HN
Better PagerDuty-style scheduling with overrides and holiday rotations
From 1 comment
Underrated oncall problem that needs solving is scheduling IMHO: - We have a weekday (2 shifts) / weekend (1 slightly longer shift including friday morning to allow people to…
makmanalp on HN
Questions
How the LLM classification is proven not to hallucinate and whether real users exist
From 1 comment
how can you prove it works and doesnt hallucinate? do you have any actual users that have installed it and found it useful?
T1tt on HN
How the project will be sustainable as open source and why Apache 2.0
From 1 comment
if this is open-source project how are you planning to make this a sustainable business? also why the choice of apache 2.0
c0mbonat0r on HN
Alternatives named
Merlinn
From 1 comment
co-founder of merlinn here: https://merlinn.co | https://github.com/merlinn-co/merlinn We're also building a tool in the same space with the option of choosing your own model…
topaztee on HN
All Quiet
From 1 comment
Founder of All Quiet here: https://allquiet.app. We're building a tool in the same space but opted out of using LLMs. We've received a lot of positive feedback from our users who…
mads_quist on HN
PagerDuty
From 1 comment
Underrated oncall problem that needs solving is scheduling IMHO: - We have a weekday (2 shifts) / weekend (1 slightly longer shift including friday morning to allow people to…
makmanalp on HN
Datadog
From 1 comment
can you build a cheaper datadog instead?
snihalani on HN
Incidental
From 1 comment
Using LLMs to classify noisy alerts is a really clever approach to tackling alert fatigue! Are you fine tuning your own model to differentiate between actionable and noisy…
sanj001 on HN