Alter v0.8.0 Released — Log Intelligence, Namespace Control, and Smarter Telegram Bot

Alter v0.8.0 landed on March 24, 2026 — and it’s one of the meatier releases yet. This update doubles down on observability with log volume charts and spike alerts, brings bulk namespace control to both the API and Telegram bot, and tightens up notification management. If you’re running multiple services through Alter, this one’s for you.

What is Alter?

Alter is a lightweight, cross-platform process manager written in Rust. It lets you run and manage multiple applications — Python, Node.js, Go, Rust, .NET, PHP — from a single binary, with a built-in web dashboard, REST API, Telegram bot, AI assistant, and real-time log streaming. Install it with a single command on Windows:

winget install thechandanbhagat.alter

Or grab the latest release directly from GitHub.

What’s New in v0.8.0

📊 Log Volume Charts

The process log viewer now embeds a full-day bar chart showing stdout and stderr line counts in 5-minute intervals. At a glance you can spot when your process got noisy, when it went quiet, or where a spike happened — without scrolling through thousands of lines.

🚨 Log Spike Alerts

You can now configure a stderr threshold — when a process crosses it, Alter fires a notification. A built-in cooldown period keeps alert spam in check, so you only hear about real problems, not brief bursts.

🗂️ Namespace Filtered View

Click any namespace in the sidebar and the dashboard filters to show only those processes. The filter state is URL-driven, so you can bookmark a namespace view and share it with your team.

⚡ Namespace Bulk APIs

New REST endpoints let you start, stop, or restart an entire namespace in a single call. No more looping through individual process IDs in your scripts — one request handles the whole group.

📬 Aggregated Namespace Notifications

Previously, a bulk restart across 10 processes would fire 10 separate Slack/Discord/Teams notifications. Now Alter sends a single summary notification for namespace-level operations — much cleaner in busy channels.

🤖 Telegram Namespace Commands

The Telegram bot now supports namespace-level control directly from your phone:

/start ns:backend
/stop ns:workers
/restart ns:api

Combined with the new command autocomplete, the bot now surfaces these commands in Telegram’s suggestion dropdown automatically — no need to memorise syntax.

Quick Feature Overview

Get Started

Alter is free and open source under the MIT license. Head over to the GitHub repository to get started, browse the docs, or drop a ⭐ if it’s useful to you.