StackWise

Why I built it

While building the backend for my startup, production bugs were often discovered only after customer reports due to limited observability, leading to slow and reactive debugging.

What I built

I started with a lightweight mechanism to capture and persist stack traces on runtime errors, prioritizing fast feedback and minimal integration overhead for an early-stage product. This evolved into an error ingestion and debugging platform with structured storage and filtered retrieval of error events. On top of this foundation, I integrated an AI-driven analysis pipeline that performs first-level debugging using stack traces and selectively fetched source code from Git.

What it is today

StackWise is an open-source, self-hosted debugging tool focused on helping small teams and individual developers reason about production errors more effectively. Rather than replacing full observability stacks, it complements them by reducing the manual effort required to understand and triage recurring failures.

The project is currently maintained and developed independently.

Future direction

StackWise is designed with extensibility in mind. Possible future directions include:

• Automatically creating issue tracker tickets (e.g., Jira/GitHub Issues) from analyzed errors
• Generating AI-assisted fix suggestions or patch branches for human review
• Adding intelligent alerting with autonomous error grouping and labeling
• Expanding context ingestion to include logs, metrics, and historical patterns

These ideas build on the existing ingestion and analysis foundation while keeping the system developer-centric and self-hosted.