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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

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The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures↗ ihatethefuture.com · HN · 119 comments · 274 points · Sep 27, 2026
Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard↗ mimo.xiaomi.com · HN · 155 comments · 562 points · Sep 16, 2026
OpenLogi↗ openlogi.org · HN · 430 comments · 1635 points · Aug 19, 2026
Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds↗ github.com · HN · 123 comments · 312 points · Mar 08, 2026
Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking↗ marginlab.ai · HN · 354 comments · 760 points · Jan 29, 2026
2025895 stories
Logging sucks↗ loggingsucks.com · HN · 223 comments · 585 points · Dec 21, 2025
How I use Tailscale↗ chameth.com · HN · 101 comments · 382 points · Aug 06, 2025
Tailscale is pretty useful↗ blog.6nok.org · HN · 404 comments · 804 points · Mar 05, 2025
Debugging Hetzner: Uncovering failures with powerstat, sensors, and dmidecode↗ ubicloud.com · HN · 108 comments · 345 points · Feb 19, 2025
I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?↗ iconsolutions.com · HN · 187 comments · 295 points · Jan 10, 2025
2024767 stories
Show HN: FlowTracker – Track data flowing through Java programs↗ github.com · HN · 32 comments · 280 points · Sep 13, 2024
Ask HN: What do you monitor on your servers?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 186 comments · 346 points · Aug 13, 2024
Show HN: Xcapture-BPF – like Linux top, but with Xray vision↗ 0x.tools · HN · 39 comments · 447 points · Jul 03, 2024
Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana↗ ounapuu.ee · HN · 186 comments · 354 points · May 05, 2024
All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"↗ isburmistrov.substack.com · HN · 175 comments · 267 points · Feb 27, 2024
2023795 stories
Sys.monitoring: Python Execution event monitoring↗ docs.python.org · HN · 9 comments · 67 points · Dec 28, 2023
Show HN: SQL-Configurable Alerting and Ticketing – Beyond Zapier and Zendesk↗ locale.ai · HN · 7 comments · 45 points · Dec 12, 2023
I can't recommend serious use of an all-in-one local Grafana Loki setup↗ utcc.utoronto.ca · HN · 10 comments · 37 points · Apr 28, 2023
Launch HN: Odigos (YC W23) – Instant distributed tracing for Kubernetes clusters↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 2 comments · 28 points · Jan 19, 2023
Show HN: ClickHouse-local – a small tool for serverless data analytics↗ clickhouse.com · HN · 3 comments · 29 points · Jan 05, 2023
2022644 stories
Show HN: SigNoz – open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic↗ github.com · HN · 132 comments · 510 points · Oct 01, 2022
Datadog dashboard for the Texas power grid↗ p.datadoghq.com · HN · 131 comments · 303 points · Jul 24, 2022
Grafana releases OnCall open source project↗ grafana.com · HN · 128 comments · 383 points · Jun 14, 2022
Magic-trace – High-resolution traces of what a process is doing↗ github.com · HN · 140 comments · 831 points · Apr 22, 2022
Grafana Mimir – Horizontally scalable long-term storage for Prometheus↗ grafana.com · HN · 119 comments · 262 points · Mar 30, 2022
2021644 stories
Supabase open sourced their dashboard↗ github.com · HN · 39 comments · 331 points · Dec 01, 2021
My Logging Best Practices (2020)↗ tuhrig.de · HN · 152 comments · 380 points · Oct 05, 2021
Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash reporting↗ github.com · HN · 339 comments · 407 points · Jul 05, 2021
“Please don't waste maintainers' time on your KPI grabbing patches”↗ lkml.org · HN · 258 comments · 517 points · Jun 25, 2021
Grafana 8.0↗ github.com · HN · 51 comments · 415 points · Jun 08, 2021
2020938 stories
New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform↗ blog.pixielabs.ai · HN · 63 comments · 345 points · Dec 10, 2020
Monitoring demystified: A guide for logging, tracing, metrics↗ techbeacon.com · HN · 92 comments · 487 points · Jul 31, 2020
Monitoring your own infrastructure using Grafana, InfluxDB, and CollectD↗ serhack.me · HN · 292 comments · 385 points · Jul 21, 2020
Grafana 7.0↗ grafana.com · HN · 95 comments · 345 points · May 18, 2020
Building a patient monitoring system with Go and Vue in 3 days↗ kasvith.me · HN · 139 comments · 436 points · May 02, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures↗ ihatethefuture.com · HN · 119 comments · 274 points · Sep 27, 2026
Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard↗ mimo.xiaomi.com · HN · 155 comments · 562 points · Sep 16, 2026
OpenLogi↗ openlogi.org · HN · 430 comments · 1635 points · Aug 19, 2026
Tell HN: Codex Is Down [fixed]↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 73 comments · 65 points · Sep 25, 2026
Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI↗ sigabrt.dev · HN · 35 comments · 81 points · Sep 19, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard↗ mimo.xiaomi.com · HN · 155 comments · 562 points · Sep 16, 2026
The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures↗ ihatethefuture.com · HN · 119 comments · 274 points · Sep 27, 2026
Nobody is saying why OpenAI and Anthropic had outages↗ wired.com · HN · 4 comments · 207 points · Sep 04, 2026
Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI↗ sigabrt.dev · HN · 35 comments · 81 points · Sep 19, 2026
Tell HN: Codex Is Down [fixed]↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 73 comments · 65 points · Sep 25, 2026
How we configured OpenTelemetry logs in Rails↗ sixpatterns.com · HN · 8 comments · 31 points · Aug 31, 2026
Show HN: Aura – a Rust agent that investigates and fixes production incidents↗ github.com · HN · 6 comments · 28 points · Sep 02, 2026
Issues with Codex – Identified – Full Outage↗ status.openai.com · HN · 1 comments · 27 points · Sep 25, 2026
Show HN: ClaudeStatsBar: your session is 486k deep and nothing told you↗ github.com · HN · 15 comments · 18 points · Sep 11, 2026
OpenAI Codex 401 Outage↗ status.openai.com · HN · 1 comments · 13 points · Sep 25, 2026

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