Operational

Signups, webhook deliveries and cron jobs are the events a small team needs to notice, and reading logs is a poor way to catch them. Operational is an open source event tracker that takes those events and surfaces them in a web app or pushes them straight to a phone.

The stack is deliberately plain. A Node backend on Express 5 and Prisma sits over MySQL 8, a Vue 3 single page app built with Vite is the client, and ClickHouse is optional rather than required, so the open source version needs no analytics database to run.

The event model carries more than a line of text.

• Push notifications: important events reach a phone or the web app without anyone watching a dashboard.
• Contexts: events nest inside events, so a bundle of logs stays attached to the thing it describes.
• Action buttons: a webhook can be triggered straight from the event that prompted it.
• Rich payloads: JSON and formatted JSON travel with the event instead of being flattened into a message.
• Progressive web app: the mobile experience installs as a PWA and receives push notifications too.

Self-hosting is the option the maintainers push hardest, with guides ranging from Render to Docker images and video walkthroughs, and a hosted service for teams that want neither. The repository is a monorepo holding the single page app, the Express backend, an Astro marketing site and the shared npm packages.