Show HN: Vergilant – alerts when your LLM API calls fail, stall, or burn money
14:02:11 · all quietGet pinged when your AI calls fail, stall, or start burning money.Vergilant is a smoke detector for production LLM calls. That’s the point.Start monitoringView the proxy on GitHubThe free tier has all three alert types. No card required.14:03 · the setupOne URL change.
- ▪14:02:11 · all quietGet pinged when your AI calls fail, stall, or start burning money.Vergilant is a smoke detector for production LLM calls.
- ▪That’s the point.Start monitoringView the proxy on GitHubThe free tier has all three alert types.
- ▪No card required.14:03 · the setupOne URL change.
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| Original publisher | Vergilant |
| Canonical URL | https://vergilant.dev |
| Publication time | Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:09:52 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-11T13:20:43.951Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-11T13:20:43.951Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | qkH_w50UqnwM · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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14:02:11 · all quietGet pinged when your AI calls fail, stall, or start burning money.Vergilant is a smoke detector for production LLM calls. Sixty seconds to set up. Then it stays out of the way. That’s the point.Start monitoringView the proxy on GitHubThe free tier has all three alert types. No card required.14:03 · the setupOne URL change. That’s the integration. Swap the base URL and add one header. Anthropic and OpenAI, streaming included. Responses come back untouched. Your API key passes through, never stored.The whole integrationCopyfrom anthropic import Anthropic client = Anthropic( base_url="https://api.anthropic.com",+ base_url="https://proxy.vergilant.dev/anthropic",+ default_headers={"X-Monitor-Key": "lm_…"},) # Done.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Vergilant.