Laminar
Ranked 3 of 3 LLM observability platforms by recommenders
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.
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.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
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What people warn about
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Write-up omits details evaluators need
“the post leaves out key details that matter to practitioners running evaluations”
Comment from 26 Oct 2026 in “Launch HN: Laminar (YC S24) – RL-trained model that finds errors in agent traces” Inelegant but functional implementation
“This is definitely not elegant, but it generally works.”
Comment from 19 Oct 2026 in “If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?”
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See all 3 LLM observability platforms, rankedWhat people said
All 5 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the post leaves out key details that matter to practitioners running evaluations”
“This is definitely not elegant, but it generally works.”
“I love the design of the website and the app.”
“I liked the high level overview where you can view it like do a funnel analysis for failures.”
“You only need one 0-dependency library for UI”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.