# SQL-tap

11 Hacker News commenters recommended SQL-tap and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free real-time viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL SQL traffic, praised as an easy drop-in proxy for debugging queries and observability.

## Why people recommend it

- Easy drop-in proxy setup (2 comments): "you can do everything by just setting a different host to connect to" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014353)) "I like how you made it an easy to drop in proxy." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47011832))
- Useful for observability and debugging (2 comments): "That's some sick observability, nice." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47011971)) "also great for debugging queries" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015355))

## Cite as

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