We've been shipping faster. A dark mode for the UI, AppSignal MCP, the AWS dashboard templates — things we would have kept internal a year ago until everything was polished. Now we don't.

A v1 in your hands beats a v3 in our heads. We learn more from a week of real use than from a quarter of internal review.

So we're giving that work a home. AppSignal Labs is where you'll find the earlier versions. Real software, available today, with a direct line to the team building it. The Labs page lists what's there.

What to expect

• Earlier access. Use features sooner than you would under our old release cadence.
• A few rough edges. Earlier means less polish. Labs features may change without notice. We wouldn't lean on them for production-critical workflows yet.
• A direct line to the team. Your feedback goes to the people building the feature. No queue, no black box.

The tradeoff is real. The reason it's worth it: features get better much faster when they're being used.

The three stages

1. In research. We're still shaping the solution and want input before we build more. The most useful thing you can do is join a 30-minute UX research session.

2. In beta. Opt-in and getting our first real-world miles. May sit behind a feature flag. Some need to be enabled by Support. This is where the rough edges still get worked out.

3. In preview. Broadly available and close to GA. Stable enough for everyday use while we finish the polish.

What's in Labs today

Dark mode (in beta)

A dark theme for the AppSignal UI, available to every customer today.

Light mode remains the default. To opt in, open your profile menu and switch the Theme toggle from Light to Dark or System (which follows your OS preference).

We're rolling it out gradually. A few screens still need polish. The fastest way to fix them is to point them out.

MCP server (in preview)

Direct access to your AppSignal data from Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Zed. Available as a remote hosted endpoint with OAuth, or as a self-hosted Docker image. Twenty-four tools across seven areas, growing based on what you actually use.

Read the docs →

AWS dashboards (in research)

46 pre-configured dashboard templates across 12 AWS service categories. Connect AppSignal to your AWS account and get infrastructure visibility out of the box.

If you run on AWS, we'd love to hear which services you'd want covered and which dashboards you'd actually open every day.

See the templates →

Read the docs →

Get involved

• Try the in-preview and in-beta features. Turn them on, push them, tell us where they break.
• Join a UX research session. 30 minutes, video call, no prep needed.
• Use the in-feature feedback button. Every Labs feature has one. We read every submission.

The AppSignal Labs page is the canonical place. We'll keep it updated as features move through the stages, graduate to GA, or, sometimes, get pulled because they didn't earn their place.

Not everything we put in front of customers ends up being the right thing. Saying so up front feels more honest than the alternative.

More to come.