# Laminar

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Laminar and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Traces LLM agent runs so you can see failures, with a funnel view of where they happen. Some say the write-up skips details that evaluators need.

## What people warn about

- Write-up omits details evaluators need (1 comments): "the post leaves out key details that matter to practitioners running evaluations" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240425))
- Inelegant but functional implementation (1 comments): "This is definitely not elegant, but it generally works." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50155121))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Langfuse](https://hackerapproved.com/p/langfuse.md): 29 recommend
- [LangSmith](https://hackerapproved.com/p/langsmith.md): 6 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://laminar.sh:443/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Laminar", https://hackerapproved.com/p/laminar/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).