Audience
Engineering teams searching for a tool to detect and manage software failures, enhance application reliability, and reduce incidents
About Prequel
Prequel is a community-driven problem detection and management platform designed to help high-velocity engineering teams ship and run more reliable software. By capturing global failure knowledge from sources like GitHub threads, Discord channels, and post-mortems, Prequel transforms this information into an extensible library of problem detectors covering open-source bugs, misconfigurations, and software antipatterns. The platform offers precise, deterministic detections, reducing reliance on noisy threshold or anomaly-based alerts, and operates in real-time to identify issues at the first sign of trouble. With a quick 10-minute installation process that requires no complex integrations or code instrumentation, Prequel integrates seamlessly into existing workflows. It features an in-cluster architecture that applies community expertise to a continuous stream of low-level data without raw data leaving the cluster, ensuring security and efficiency.