v1.2 Reads your existing metrics

The screen you stop checking.

Pane puts the eight numbers your team actually runs on somewhere you can see without going to look. It shows the level rather than the alert, so you find out while something is moving instead of after it has arrived.

Put one on a screen See the setup

Free while you are under ten signals. No card, and no sales call.

Checkout

Drifting

eu-west-1 last 90m

  • p95 latency 412ms +18%
  • queue depth 1,204 Rising
  • error rate 0.04% Steady
  • cache hit 91.2% Steady

What a surface owes you.

Every team has dashboards. What most of them do not have is one screen worth leaving open, which turns out to be a different problem with a much shorter list of requirements.

The level, not the alarm

Ambient

A threshold tells you once something has already gone wrong. A level tells you while it is still moving, and gives you the twenty minutes in which the fix is cheap.

Readable at four metres

Glanceable

Pane sizes type to the distance you set, and refuses to render more than eight signals per screen. The limit is the feature. A ninth is a second screen.

Drift, with a direction

Compared

Every number carries what it was doing an hour ago. A figure with no comparison is a fact; a figure with one is the beginning of a question worth asking.

Point it at what you already collect.

One file, and the queries are the ones your metrics backend already answers. Pane stores no series of its own, which is why there is nothing to migrate and nothing to back up.

  • No agent. It reads the endpoint you already expose.
  • No storage. Every number on the screen is a live query.
  • No paging. Pane never wakes anyone. It is a window, not a siren. 
surface: checkout
distance: 4m

signals:
  - name: p95 latency
    query: histogram_quantile(0.95, checkout_ms)
    compare: 1h

  - name: queue depth
    query: sum(checkout_queue_depth)
    compare: 1h

Eight is the ceiling

A ninth signal makes the other eight harder to read from across the room, so Pane declines it and offers you a second surface.

Try it on one team's screen.

Point Pane at a service you already have metrics for. If nobody looks at it after a fortnight, you have learned something cheap about the numbers you thought you cared about.

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