Today I'm really excited to roll out a new project the team and I have been working hard on. Tail.dev provides application monitoring, error tracking, and log management that's easy to setup and works out of the box. For the last 5 years our organization has provided custom software development and devops services for clients all around the world. The one thing every project has in common is the need for visibility. Traditional SaaS providers are complicated to get up and running and come with a heavy price tag before you start seeing any real value. Rolling your own open source solution takes a dedicated team to maintain. Our goal with tail.dev is to provide a drop in, batteries included, super informative solution that makes sense no matter the project size.
Where we are, where we're headed
We've completed initial development for APM and log management and are in progress with the third and final piece which is error tracking. Our team is using tail.dev in production now and once we've completed this third and final piece we will begin rolling out early access to others. There are many features and ideas that we wish to build going forward but the platform will always be driven by two key principles:
- Feature quality over quantity
- Simple is powerful
Providing quick and easy access to what's actually important is vital when it comes to application visibility. We are eager to get tail.dev into the hands of others so we can learn from first-hand use on how to improve the platform further. We're also working to launch a public roadmap soon to make it easer to follow development and provide suggestions.
We will be launching with support for PHP and Laravel first since we do a lot of work in this space, with support for Go and Node planned next. We will also support collecting logs outside of an application such as from syslog, files from a server, etc.
Let's get started, it's free :)
While we work through the early access phase tail.dev will be provided free of charge. Drop us your email here to get on the list and we'll let you know when it's ready (no marketing email BS included). You may also subscribe below and we'll email monthly updates.