# Pydantic Logfire

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Pydantic Logfire and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Developers recommend it for debugging and optimisation, and say logging has become much better. Critics find graph customisation limited and see it as an unwanted add-on.

## Why people recommend it

- Helps with optimisation and bug diagnosis (1 comments): "it's a game changer when doing optimisation or diagnosis of bugs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47868762))
- Plays nicely with DBOS (1 comments): "they play nicely together and with DBOS" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816612))
- Logging is much improved (1 comments): "logging used to suck - now it's fixed" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46349018))
- Seen as a helpful bonus (1 comments): "Logfire was a super helpful bonus" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46421623))

## What people warn about

- Forced on users as an add-on (1 comments): "try to shoe-horn in an observability platform that no one was asking for" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46661813))
- Limited graph customisation (1 comments): "limited when you want to customize graphs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50270798))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Grafana](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grafana.md): 71 recommend
- [Prometheus](https://hackerapproved.com/p/prometheus.md): 48 recommend
- [Datadog](https://hackerapproved.com/p/datadog.md): 40 recommend
- [Sentry](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sentry.md): 31 recommend
- [SigNoz](https://hackerapproved.com/p/signoz.md): 19 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://pydantic.dev/logfire)

## Cite as

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