Spikelog
Infrastructure
metrics monitoring service
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How HN took it
0 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
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What people liked
Simple and easy to use; a good alternative to heavy observability stacks
From 2 comments
This looks neat, thanks for building and sharing it. I do agree that observability stacks are usually a deep pit of things to configure and services to run, but there are tools…
imiric on HNNice! Gonna give it a try for my new project. Some thoughts: 1) I think you could simplify the onboarding - I don't think I actually need to make an account up front. It somewhat…
straydusk on HN
AI prompt for coding agents is useful
From 1 comment
Nice! Gonna give it a try for my new project. Some thoughts: 1) I think you could simplify the onboarding - I don't think I actually need to make an account up front. It somewhat…
straydusk on HN
Objections
Requires account signup, contradicting the landing page
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Nice! Gonna give it a try for my new project. Some thoughts: 1) I think you could simplify the onboarding - I don't think I actually need to make an account up front. It somewhat…
straydusk on HN
No easy way to separate local and production data
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Nice! Gonna give it a try for my new project. Some thoughts: 1) I think you could simplify the onboarding - I don't think I actually need to make an account up front. It somewhat…
straydusk on HN
Integer values are displayed as floating point
From 1 comment
> See Spikelog's own metrics ← Generated with one prompt Ah, that's why it shows user count (an integer) as a floating point? Or is that an inherent limitation somehow?
lionkor on HN
Requests
Allow trying without creating an account
From 1 comment
Nice! Gonna give it a try for my new project. Some thoughts: 1) I think you could simplify the onboarding - I don't think I actually need to make an account up front. It somewhat…
straydusk on HN
Separate local and production metrics
From 1 comment
Nice! Gonna give it a try for my new project. Some thoughts: 1) I think you could simplify the onboarding - I don't think I actually need to make an account up front. It somewhat…
straydusk on HN
Recognise integer charts and drop decimals
From 1 comment
Yep, that's not ideal... if all the numbers are integers, it would be better if Spikelog recognised the chart as a chart of ints and remove the floating points. Thanks for the…
dsmurrell on HN
Questions
How was it built and how much AI was used
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How did you go about building this? What was your process, and how did you use AI to aid you?
lionkor on HNSo is this app essentially written by an LLM, not by you?
lionkor on HN
Whether the app was written by an LLM
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So is this app essentially written by an LLM, not by you?
lionkor on HN
Alternatives named
OpenObserve
From 1 comment
This looks neat, thanks for building and sharing it. I do agree that observability stacks are usually a deep pit of things to configure and services to run, but there are tools…
imiric on HN
SigNoz
From 1 comment
This looks neat, thanks for building and sharing it. I do agree that observability stacks are usually a deep pit of things to configure and services to run, but there are tools…
imiric on HN
Axiom
From 1 comment
Datadog
From 1 comment
Plausible public dashboards
From 1 comment
Thank you! and I appreciate the mentions... they’ll definitely be useful for my projects that need more than simple tracking. I might choose to link them instead of Axiom after…
dsmurrell on HN