Hello HN!

I built Django Orbit because I needed a better way to debug Django applications. While Django Debug Toolbar is great, its DOM injection approach causes issues with modern frontend stacks (HTMX, React, Vue) and JSON APIs.

Orbit takes a different approach: "Satellite Observability". It runs on its own isolated URL (/orbit/) and records everything happening in your app without interfering with your frontend.

It records: - HTTP Requests & Responses - SQL Queries (with N+1 detection) - Background Jobs (Celery, RQ, Django-Q) - Exceptions & Logs - Cache operations (Redis, Memcached) - And newly added in v0.6: Database Transactions & File Storage monitoring

It's drop-in: `pip install django-orbit` + middleware. Zero config needed to start.

Tech stack: Django + HTMX + Tailwind (lightweight, no build step).

Repo: https://github.com/astro-stack/django-orbit

Docs: https://astro-stack.github.io/django-orbit/

Web: https://labs.wearehik.com Would love your feedback!