Figure out what went wrong
in minutes not hours.
Retrace reads your logs, metrics and deploys, builds the timeline, and drafts the postmortem — before the meeting starts.
4.7/5
Corvid Systems, Hatchline and Bluefathom close postmortems in 40 minutes — it used to take a full working day.
Debugging an outage at 3am is ten tabs and a migraine.
You already have the data. It’s scattered across ten products that have never once agreed on what time it was, and somewhere in it is a config change at 03:14 that explains everything — finding it by hand is what turns a 31-minute outage into an afternoon of archaeology.
03:09 deploy checkout-api v4.22.0 → v4.22.103:14 flag connection_pool_v2 10% → 100% d.okaforgrafana 22:14 (browser) · loki 1731554071 · rds 04:14 (UTC+1)03:16 metric p99 190ms → 4.2s +2,110% vs baseline03:17 log ERR_POOL_EXHAUSTED ×1,284 pg-primary03:19 alert availability 99.9% → 91.2% paged @sre-oncall03:47 chat resolved · 31 minutes of impact> select * from postmortems where id = 'incident-012'0 rows> git log --grep 'pool exhausted' --since '6 weeks ago'3 commits, 3 teams
SCATTERED
Every reconstruction starts from zero. The logs are in one tab, the deploy in another, the flag change in a third, and the alert that woke you in a fourth.
DESYNCED
Ten products print the same instant ten different ways. Nothing lines up until a person lines it up by hand, at 3am, from memory.
UNWRITTEN
The person who knows what happened has the least time to write it down. So it slips a week, and then it ships without the one detail that mattered.
REPEATED
Nothing got written down in a form anyone can search. Six weeks later a different team walks into the identical wall and starts from zero again.
Watch Retrace audit that same 3am incident.
A sample incident replayed at the speed Retrace assembles it: six sources, eleven events, one root cause, and a postmortem nobody had to write. Jump to whichever part you don’t believe.
SAMPLE INCIDENT · PLAYS ONCE
- DEPLOY
- FLAG
- METRIC
- LOG
- ALERT
- SLACK
INCIDENT TIMELINE
0/11 eventsCONNECTED SOURCES
6 connected- LokiLOG—
- DatadogMETRIC—
- GitHub ActionsDEPLOY—
- LaunchDarklyFLAG—
- PagerDutyALERT—
- SlackSLACK—
Comparing every deploy and flag change against the first degraded signal.
01It reads the clock, not the vibes
Six sources, timestamps normalised, ordered once. No one has to say “wait, is that UTC?”
02Every claim has a receipt
Each hypothesis links to the events behind it — including the two it ruled out, and why.
03The draft writes itself
Summary, impact, root cause, contributing factors, action items. In your template, ready to edit.
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Connect once. Every incident after that runs itself.
Nothing to install, nothing to remember mid-incident. Retrace reads the tools you already pay for and sits alongside paging and observability — it does not replace them, and it never sits in front of production.
- 01
Connect what you already run
Read-only API access to your logs, metrics, deploys, settings and alerts. No agents, nothing in your request path. Most teams are connected in under an hour — well before their next incident.
DatadogGrafanaLokiSentryGitHub ActionsLaunchDarklyPagerDutySlackAWS CloudWatch+ more - 02
Retrace goes looking for the cause
It reads every connected tool end to end — each log line, deploy, setting change and alert — puts them all on one clock, and works out which one actually started it. The cross-referencing that takes a person an hour at 3am takes it a minute, and it shows its working.
EVERYTHING IT READWHAT IT FOUND- RULED OUTDatadog9,412 metric points
- EFFECT, NOT CAUSELoki1,284 error lines
- RULED OUTGitHub Actions4 deploys
- ROOT CAUSELaunchDarkly1 setting change
A setting was turned on for everyone at 03:14 — two minutes before checkout slowed.
87% CONFIDENT · 4 EVENTS LINKED
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The incident write-up comes to you
The moment the incident closes, Retrace sends the alert and the summary — timeline, ranked causes with linked evidence, postmortem draft in your template. It lands in the incident channel, and in the inbox of everyone who slept through it. You read and edit; nobody has to go and fetch it.
TIMELINEHYPOTHESESPOSTMORTEM#incident-012EmailTelegramWebhooksent 03:48 · one minute after the incident closed
Six things, so nobody has to play historian.
Retrace sits alongside your paging and observability stack and does the one job none of them do: remembering, in order, with evidence.
Timelines, assembled
Logs, metrics, deploys and alerts pulled through their own APIs and put on one clock. The minute-by-minute story, without opening a single dashboard.
Hypotheses with receipts
Every proposed root cause links to the exact events behind it. You review an argument you can check, not a summary you have to trust.
Postmortems in your template
The draft is written before the meeting starts, in the format your team already uses. Editing a draft beats staring at a blank page at 3am.
Change correlation
Which deploy or config change lines up with the first bad signal. It is almost always a change, and almost nobody remembers making it.
Slack-native
Start, follow and close an incident without leaving the channel. Retrace works where the incident is already happening, not in a twelfth tab.
A library that remembers
Every past incident and what fixed it, searchable. The failure that repeats gets answered in a minute instead of relived from scratch.
Teams that stopped writing postmortems by hand.
“We closed our last postmortem in 40 minutes. It used to take a full working day.”
Priya NatarajanPlatform Lead · Corvid Systems“Retrace found the flag flip we all missed. That alone paid for the year.”
Daniel OkaforSRE Manager · Hatchline“Our incident channel went from chaos to a checklist.”
Marisol VegaVP Engineering · BluefathomCheaper than the afternoon it replaces.
Start on the free plan with one service. Move up when you want every service on it.
STARTER
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Enough to retrace your next incident and see whether it earns the second one.
- 1 service
- 3 seats
- 30 days of history
GROWTH
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For platform teams running real production. Every service, every incident, kept.
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- Unlimited services
- 25 seats
- Full history
ENTERPRISE
Customtalk to us
When procurement, not engineering, is the thing standing between you and a timeline.
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- Audit log
- Private cloud
- Dedicated support
The five things every team asks.
Usually in this order, usually within the first ten minutes.
Does Retrace need agents installed?
No. It reads from the tools you already use through their APIs — so there is nothing to deploy, nothing sitting in your request path, and nothing new to page you at 3am.
How long does setup take?
Most teams connect their first three integrations in under an hour. You do not need all of them on day one; a timeline built from deploys, alerts and logs is already worth reading.
Is our data used to train models?
No. Your data stays yours and is never used for training. Enterprise adds SSO, an audit log and private cloud if your security review needs the paperwork to match.
Does it replace our on-call tooling?
No. It sits alongside paging and observability, and does the remembering. Keep PagerDuty for waking people up and Datadog for the graphs — Retrace is the part that writes it down.
What happens when we exceed our plan?
Nothing breaks. We notify you and help you right-size. Your history stays readable and your incidents keep assembling while you decide what to do about it.
YOUR NEXT INCIDENT IS ALREADY SCHEDULED
Be the team that remembers it.
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