🚨 Launching ZeroTrace: The logs dashboard for Bubble apps

[Zeroic]

Hi everyone!

I have been building on Bubble for the last ~6 years and recently started following quite a few topics on the Forum.

I saw quite a few devs here, and in the community in general, complain about the current state of logs and observability for their Bubble apps.

@boston85719

This makes it difficult to track our WU usage in logs and causes discrepancies between logs and WU charts, which adds to confusion and frustration with the WU pricing altogether.

@Eugene_West

It’s really annoying that there’s no way to see more details.

@98.ehsan.e

I need to debug the backend workflow, and the only way that I came up with is to see the server logs.
every time I click on the link “zoom in to this workflow”, the screen gets loaded and then nothing shows up.

Is there any other way to see how the backend workflow is working on each step?
or how do I solve this server log issue?

So I built ZeroTrace along with @ankur1 - the observability platform that each live Bubble app should have.

What it does:

• Overview
  Metrics like total logs, event/action runs, errors, WUs, and users over a chosen time range with trend charts so you can spot changes quickly.

• Logs
  Searchable, filterable log list with accurate and understandable workflow traces. Click a log to see the full trace (which steps ran before/after) and raw log details. Export to CSV if you need it for your SOC2 / ISO / compliance audits. Suggested by @mghatiya

@mghatiya

Server logs are heavily under designed currently with lot of limitations on functionalities. And since there are so many limitations, at the least they should give us an ability to download the logs in excel/text so that we can do our own manual analysis of various kinds.

• Monitor
  A customizable dashboard that allows you to track:
  • Health checks: Most recurring errors and workflows
  • Event performance: Slowest and fastest workflows by duration
  • User activity: Who’s active, where, and recent activity
  • WU usage: Workflow Unit consumption by user and workflows, so you can keep an eye on usage.

• Alerts (my FAVOURITE feature btw)
  Define rules (e.g. “error occurs”, “error rate exceeds X%”, “duration exceeds X ms”, “WU exceeds X”) and get notified so you can react before users report issues.

Who is it for:
Any dev or org running serious and critical Bubble apps knows how important observability is for them. And that how Bubble’s log tab isn’t the solution AT ALL.

@sridharan.s

Have spent hours and hours trying to troubleshoot a bug which would be 100 times easier to figure out with this information.

This platform becomes a no-brainer for those who want to:

• see what’s actually running and where errors happen
• trace paths and figure out how workflows are executing
• know their WU usage in detail
• be informed immediately when any third-party services are down, or when things are just getting slow!

Adding your app to ZeroTrace
I’ll be keeping this free for the next few months for anyone who wants to try it and share feedback. It’s invite-only for now – we’re not posting a public sign-up link.

If you’d like an invite, feel free to comment below or DM me.

In case you have sent me a text here or on any other social media platform, we will be in touch to onboard you asap.

I’d love to hear what you’d want next – better metrics, alert types, filters, AI (which is coming soon ) or anything else.

[storm]

I would love access

[vladlarin]

Great job @Zeroic !

Looks like a very valuable tool we definitely would want to try it out.

[randomanon]

Sickening that Bubble doesn’t have this built in.

[petar]

This looks interesting! I would like to try it out

[juancamilovasquezard]

This looks amazing! I would want to try it out if possible.

Thanks!

[Zeroic]

True! I thought the Flusk acquisition would have allowed them to integrate this natively, but it doesn’t look like that’s their focus atm.

[Eugene_West]

Can it debug “Other” tagged WU usages? Meaning being able to get more details

[Zeroic]

@Eugene_West There’s plenty we’re doing atm - WU by each event, action and even user. Just DM’ed you to set this up for your app!

[greg18]

I would like access please

[boston85719]

@Zeroic

• be informed immediately when any third-party services are down, or when things are just getting slow!

Does this work by consistently polling the log API?

Are the logs in your product extending duration of log availability as set by bubble app plan?

[Zeroic]

Correct - we run a job every 5 mins that fetches the updated logs.

As for retention, yes, this extends further that the plan-specific limited period which Bubble offers (and unlike other similar tools that exist atm). We’ve currently set a TTL for 90 days in our OLAP DB, which we’ll be extending later depending on the demand.

[parthapatel0723]

This might be a really dumb question…but there’s a log API?

Is this only for Bubble partners or something? I thought Bubble had no public APIs or APIs for a Bubble app apart from the BEWFs.

[boston85719]

@parthapatel0723

Is this only for Bubble partners or something? I thought Bubble had no public APIs

No, not for only partners. I don’t think they are public in sense that they are publicized and promoted as open to be used, but apparently Bubble is okay with this services and others like it using them.

[Zeroic]

Chat with your logs

We shipped something I’m genuinely excited about and people love it!

This was live for the last 2 weeks for the apps using the platform. We have added the capability to chat with your logs and find issues in greater detail.

Instead of scrolling through thousands of log entries trying to figure out what went wrong, you just… ask.

• “What are the most common errors in the last 24 hours?”
• “Which workflows are burning the most WUs?”
• “Show me the error rate trend over the past week.”

And it goes and figures it out for you. It runs the queries, cross-references the data, and comes back with an actual answer. Not a wall of raw logs - a real, synthesised insight in plain English.

It’s available now for all users. If you’re not on the platform yet, DM me for an invite

[rpetribu]

Hey @Zeroic !

The tool looks amazing and I would really like to test it. Could you send me an invitation?

While we’re at it, I have two questions:

• Regarding data security: how is this handled? What kind of access will your system have to our applications? I have a lot of sensitive data that cannot be shared, such as medical records.

• How long are these logs stored? This is currently a problem with Bubble, since the logs are stored for only a short period of time, and sometimes we miss the window of opportunity to debug an issue.

[devin.fraze]

I would love to trail this app, please send and invite

[abduqodirnuriddinov3]

I would love to get access