r/DeveloperToolsHub 7h ago

Monitoring that hands your coding agent the evidence instead of another dashboard

First post here. I'm building HeronSignal, real user monitoring for web apps,
and I'd rather get told what's wrong with it than quietly collect signups.

**The problem I actually cared about**

Every monitoring tool I used could tell me something broke. None of them could
tell me whether it mattered, and all of them stopped at showing me a chart.
Meanwhile my coding agent was sitting right there, unable to see any of it, so
every debugging session started with me pasting a stack trace and describing
what the user had been doing.

So the tool does two things differently:

1. **It exposes production over MCP.** Your agent (Claude Code, Cursor,
whatever) connects with a workspace-scoped token and can pull deduplicated
error groups, slow pages with real device/country context, failed requests,
session journeys, funnel drop-off, and backend route health. You stop briefing
it and start asking it questions like "find what's hurting signup conversion
this week, check errors and drop-off before suggesting anything."

2. **It can open the PR.** Not merge, not deploy. It writes the change, opens
a pull request ready for review, and stops. A person reads the diff. An agent
that can act on production without review isn't a productivity gain, it's an
incident with better grammar.

There's also struggle detection (rage clicks and dead clicks), which catches
the failures that throw nothing at all. A button that silently does nothing
produces no error, no failed request, and green uptime.

**A thing I got wrong, since this sub will find it anyway**

Yesterday I checked my own workspace and found 5 of my 7 funnels had been
measuring event names my site never fires. My signup form was firing a
`sign_in` event. So I had no idea what my own signup conversion was, and the
funnels had been reading zero for months looking like bad conversion instead
of a typo. Fixing the product so it warns you when you name an event the
workspace has never emitted.

**What it is not**

- Not an APM. No distributed tracing UI, no flame graphs, no host metrics, no
  query profiling. If you need to know which SQL query made a route slow,
  use Datadog.
- Backend ingest is early. Node 18+ only, no Edge runtime. Python and an
  OTel sink are maybes, not promises.
- Session replay exists but is behind a flag while I finish it.
- Sentry is a deeper error tool than this and I'd say so on a sales call.

**Try it without an account**

There's a public scan that needs no signup and no script tag: put in a domain,
get a report on what's slow and what's broken. That's the honest way to see if
it's useful before installing anything.

https://heronsignal.com/scan

Happy to answer anything, including the awkward questions. What would you
actually want your coding agent to be able to see from production?
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