Autometrics - Developer-first observability framework

Hi all, I’m the creator of Autometrics, a set of open source libraries that makes it super easy to instrument your code with metrics and writes Prometheus queries for you to help make sense of the data. While trying to make debugging incidents more efficient at Fiberplane, we kept running into the problem that querying observability data is hard. Logs, metrics, and traces are all useful signals for debugging production issues. However, you need to craft the right formula to pull the answer to a specific question out of the data. This is a painful process for developers like me. What’s worse is that once you write a query and are looking at a chart, it’s hard to be completely sure that the data you’re looking at actually answers your question. Queries can be syntactically correct but statistically meaningless — and this is a really bad thing to realize while investigating an incident. Autometrics is a new take on observability that instruments code with useful metrics and writes the queries to help make sense of the generated data. The open source libraries can be used to track the error rate, response time, and production usage of any function in your source code. By tying metrics to code and standardizing the names and labels, we can automatically generate useful queries for each function or for groups of functions. The most fun feature of Autometrics is that the libraries can insert links to live charts directly into the documentation of each function, so you can quickly jump from your IDE to looking at production data. Autometrics also makes it easy to define useful alerts based on best practices around Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) right in your code. And, it comes with pre-built Grafana dashboards to give you an overview of how your code is performing in production. Despite the snazzy-looking website, Autometrics is a very new project. We’d love to hear what you think about the project and we’re looking for developers that are interested in adding Autometrics to their projects and giving us feedback!

Congratulations on the launch🎉🎉!! !

🚀🚀 lekker hoor

Looks cool, one feedback is, when I see the example wrapping whole function with autometrics, I was almost passing it. But then I saw that we can wrap with decorators too, which is cool. My suggestion would be to add NestJS support.

That looks very slick!🙌

Congratulations on your launch! Looks super interesting. Good Luck!

congrats guys, super useful tool.

Nice Product! Congrats on the launch, team!

congrats on the launch @evan_schwartz1! p.s. beautiful site

Great stuff! Seems underrated