Three ways to try Spider, from zero setup to your own cluster

One thing I wanted to fix in this refresh: there was no good answer to “can I just try it?” that didn’t start with a sales conversation. There are now three ways in, each one step closer to your own data.

0 - Synthetic demo (live now)

No account, nothing to install. A realistic storefront’s traffic is captured continuously by a Floocus-hosted Spider instance, decrypted and traced across all five protocols - HTTP, gRPC, Redis, PostgreSQL and Kafka. It’s the fastest way to see what Spider’s UI and analysis actually look like on real-shaped traffic. Try it now.

1 - Hosted sandbox (coming soon)

Install Spider’s agents on your own cluster, pointed at a hosted, non-production Spider backend we run for you. This is the first step onto your traffic without standing up any infrastructure of your own - useful for evaluating capture and decode against your real protocols and payload shapes before committing to a deployment.

2 - Self-host trial (coming soon)

Register a licence and deploy the full Spider stack on your own infrastructure. Your data never leaves your cluster - this is the closest thing to production, run as a trial.

What’s live today

Tier 0 is live and free to use right now. Tiers 1 and 2 are built and coming - self-serve registration and licence issuance for both are still in progress. If you’d like early access ahead of general availability, get in touch and I’ll set you up by hand in the meantime.

I’ll revise this post once self-serve sign-up for the hosted sandbox and self-host trial ship - for now, consider tiers 1 and 2 the shape of what’s coming rather than a finished self-serve flow.

Cheers, Thibaut