Insights
Flare 2.0 is right around the corner
Spatie Team
Flare was launched almost four years ago. In human life, that's a short time, but for an online service, that's a lifetime.
Over the years, we had quite some ideas on how to improve the user experience for Flare. You'll be happy to know that for the past few months, our team has been working hard on Flare 2.0.
Flare 2.0 features:
-
a major redesign both of the marketing page and the app
-
opt-in AI solutions, which auto-generate solutions based on all the information we have on your error
-
error insights, which give you a clear overview of which jobs, commands, ... errors happened for which users
-
a new onboarding experience that makes it much easier to get started using Flare
-
an avalanche of little improvements and refinements
By rethinking and streamlining the whole process, we hope to have created lots of improvements you'd like. The launch of the Flare 2.0 is planned for early June.
Get access to Flare 2.0 beta
We're currently running a closed beta of Flare 2.0. If you want to help us test the new design and features, send us a mail.
Your feedback will help us polish everything so all our users have a great first-day experience.
Continue reading
Why we removed AI solutions from Flare
AI generated solutions are dead, long live AI generated solutions! We removed the old one-shot fixes from a model that could only see the stack trace. It simply couldn't compete with modern agentic AI. In their place, Flare works with the agentic AI tools you already use: an MCP server that handles real triage, a CLI with an agent skill, quick Copy for AI prompts in the UI and docs served as markdown. Hosted agents are in the works too.
Alex
Flare now uses OAuth for MCP, the CLI, and API
Connect MCP clients like Claude and Cursor to Flare by logging in from your browser, no more copying API tokens. Every connection gets its own permissions, so you can give your AI read-only access to a single project. The CLI signs in the same way, and new personal access tokens with scopes and expiry cover scripts and CI.
Alex
Subscribe to Backtrace, our quarterly Flare newsletter
No spam, just news & product updates