The Spider Controller is the Kubernetes-native agent that watches your cluster in real time: it tracks pods, services, deployments, and ownership chains, attaches capture agents to pods, answers DNS queries, and maintains a live WebSocket connection to the Spider backend. For the past few years it has been written in Node.js. That changes now.

Spider's interface has been with us for a while. It worked well — but the left sidebar navigation, dense filter panels, and compact top bar had started to feel dated. After years of incremental additions, the time was right for a proper rethink.

The result is now live as the default. Here is the story of how it got built.

Algolia has now integrated AI chat in their search features! :)

This version introduces PostgreSQL parsing as a first citizen of Spider.

Deep, protocol-level database observability — without instrumentation, without SQL logs.

I'm excited to announce a major new capability in Spider Analyzer: native PostgreSQL wire-protocol parsing!

This feature takes Spider’s network observability one step further by decoding actual PostgreSQL protocol messages directly from live traffic — giving you precise, structured insight into what your applications really do with your database, at runtime, and at scale. 💪

The new Spider release introduces a complete technical overhaul of all services.
This significant achievement was accomplished over just one month, thanks to the incredible assistance of AI agents!

This version is a technical release upgrading most components to reduce CVE and technical debt.
It also includes several bug fixes and performance improvements.

This release introduces Service Accounts for third party connection to Spider APIs.

At Spider, I am continuously working to enhance our platform to meet the evolving needs of our users and integrate seamlessly into modern development and operations workflows.

I'm excited to announce the release of Service Accounts, a feature designed to provide a secure and programmatic way for third-party applications and scripts to interact with Spider API using standard OAuth2 client_credentials flow.