Every backend developer has this headache 😩
Every time you start a new backend project, you end up writing the same monitoring code: counter.inc() histogram.observe() Manual metrics. Repeated setup. Boilerplate everywhere. All this just to a...

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Every time you start a new backend project, you end up writing the same monitoring code: counter.inc() histogram.observe() Manual metrics. Repeated setup. Boilerplate everywhere. All this just to answer basic questions: Which API is slow? Why are errors increasing? What’s happening in production? And the worst part — you repeat this in every project. 🚀 Introducing: prometheus-auto-instrument So I built something to remove this completely. prometheus-auto-instrument is a zero-config monitoring tool for Node.js. 👉 Just one line: monitor.init({ app }); And you instantly get: Automatic request metrics Smart route grouping (/users/:id instead of thousands of unique routes) Auto-detection for MongoDB and Redis Built-in live dashboard (no Grafana required) Real-time updates using WebSocket Latency anomaly detection Per-route performance insights 💡 The Idea Monitoring should be automatic, not something developers rewrite every time. Instead of forcing developers to manually wire metrics, th