One thing that became painfully clear over time is that most outages, security issues, and compliance fire drills don’t come from a lack of tools. They come from missing context. People don’t know what’s running, how things connect, or what changed recently, especially once systems sprawl across clouds, repos, and teams.
That’s why I’m building OpsCompanion.
The goal is simple: keep a live, shared picture of what’s actually running and how it fits together.
OpsCompanion helps engineers:
See a live, visual map of services, infrastructure, and dependencies
Answer “what changed?” without digging through five tools, Slack threads, or outdated docs
Preserve operational context so the next person on call isn’t starting from zero
This isn’t about adding more logs or alerts, or slapping AI on top of existing dashboards. It’s about capturing the mental model experienced operators carry in their heads and keeping it shared and up to date.
It’s still early, and there are rough edges. I’ve opened it up to a small group of engineers who work close to production so I can get honest feedback. If it’s useful, great. If not, I genuinely want to understand why and what would make it better.
You can try it here: https://opscompanion.ai/?utm_source=hn&utm_medium=show_hn&ut...
I’ll be around in the comments. Happy to answer technical questions, hear skepticism, get a bit roasted, or talk about what actually breaks in real systems.
People want it to be significantly more proactive over time, things like root cause analysis, security-style probing, or guided investigations rather than just visibility.
There’s interest in going deeper on telemetry and using it to surface higher-level insights, not just raw data or links out to other tools.
A lot of people ask whether it can eventually write to environments. The direction that’s resonated most is doing this first for new or greenfield environments. For example, going from a prototype to a production-ready AWS setup in a more agentic way. For existing environments, trust and safety are still the gating factors.
My takeaway is that read-only context earns trust first, and write access has to be very deliberate and staged.