PulseBoard Update: From Uptime Monitoring to AI Incident Investigation 🚀
Over the past few weeks, I've been focused on one question:
Monitoring tells you something broke.
But how do you figure out why?
That's where PulseBoard is heading.
What's new
🔗 GitHub Integration
Correlate incidents with recent commits and deployment activity.
🧠 Evidence-based Vigil AI
Instead of generating generic AI responses, Vigil now investigates incidents using:
Monitoring failures
Historical incident patterns
GitHub commit summaries
Deployment timing
Infrastructure context
⚠️ No hallucinated root causes
If there isn't enough evidence, Vigil simply says:
"Cause unknown from available data."
I'd rather have honest uncertainty than confident misinformation during production incidents.
⚡ AI Provider Queue
Behind the scenes, Vigil now uses a custom priority queue with automatic provider failover, retries, circuit breakers, and rate limiting across Groq, Mistral, and Cerebras.
📦 Commit Intelligence
Commit diffs are summarized once, cached permanently, and reused across future investigations to reduce latency and AI costs.
The long-term goal isn't to build another monitoring tool.
It's to build an AI reliability engineer that helps answer:
Why did this happen?
What evidence supports that conclusion?
What should we do next?
I'd love feedback from the Product Hunt community.
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