Seamless Glance is a read-only terminal tool that helps engineering teams quickly triage, understand, and navigate cloud infrastructure after changes, deployments, or incidents.
It is designed to reduce the time between: “Something changed” and “We know where to look.”
Think of it as a guided operational view of a cloud infrastructure, optimized for fast decision making rather than configuration.
Modern AWS environments change constantly through Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and automated scaling. When something goes wrong, teams often lose time answering basic questions:
- Is the account healthy?
- What resources look suspicious or misconfigured?
- Where should we investigate first?
- Which console page or CLI command actually matters?
Seamless Glance provides immediate, high-signal answers to those questions without forcing engineers to click through dozens of AWS Console pages or manually chain CLI commands.
It does not replace a cloud console or CLI. It helps teams get to the right place faster.
After a Terraform apply or deployment, Seamless Glance helps teams immediately see:
- Unhealthy target groups
- Misaligned load balancers
- Blocked security groups
- Stopped or unreachable instances
This shortens the gap between deployment and diagnosis.
The tool highlights:
- Health issues before inventory
- Risk before configuration
- Context before detail
Engineers spend less time hunting and more time fixing.
From any resource, engineers can:
- Inspect full AWS SDK-backed details
- Jump directly to the exact AWS Console page
- Pivot into SSH or CLI workflows when needed
Seamless Glance guides action without taking control.
Seamless Glance currently supports high-impact infrastructure surfaces commonly involved in outages and post-deploy debugging:
- EC2
- ECS
- Lambda
- RDS
- API Gateway (REST and HTTP)
- Load Balancers
- Target Groups
- Security Groups
- SQS (including DLQs)
- VPCs and subnets
- Secrets Manager
- CloudWatch alarms
More services are added with a focus on triage value, not breadth.
Seamless Glance is built for environments with strict security requirements.
- Runs entirely on the user’s machine
- No telemetry, analytics, or usage reporting
- No background services
- No network calls outside AWS APIs
- Uses the official AWS SDKs only
- Uses the same credential resolution chain as the AWS CLI
Teams can independently verify its network behavior.
Documentation: https://seamlessglance.com/verify
brew tap fells-code/seamless
brew install seamless-glance
# or directly
brew install fells-code/seamless/seamless-glanceRun with:
glanceThe seamless-glance command also works.
curl -fsSL https://seamlessglance.com/install.sh | bashSeamless Glance includes a 365-day free trial for non-commerical use.
- No signup
- No network checks
- Trial license generated locally on first run
Pro licenses can be purchased at https://seamlessglance.com
After purchase, place your license file at:
~/.seamless-glance/license.json
Check license status at any time:
glance --license-statusSeamless Glance uses the same credential resolution chain as the AWS CLI:
- AWS_PROFILE
- ~/.aws/credentials
- ~/.aws/config
- Environment variables
- AWS SSO
Example:
export AWS_PROFILE=prod
glance- Cost Explorer data is fetched at most once every 24 hours
- Results are cached locally
- No background polling
- No repeated billable calls
Seamless Glance communicates only with your cloud service endpoints.
If you want to verify this yourself, see:
https://seamlessglance.com/verify
That page walks through inspecting traffic using tcpdump, Wireshark, HTTPS proxies, and AWS SDK debug logging.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Up or Down | Move cursor |
| d | Describe selected resource |
| o | Open resource in AWS Console |
| r | Refresh current view |
| / | Command palette |
| Left or Right | Switch region |
| ? | Help |
| q | Quit |
Seamless Glance is built for:
- DevOps engineers
- Platform engineers
- SREs
- Consultants working across multiple AWS accounts
- Engineers who want fast context without console fatigue
It is especially useful for:
- Daily sanity checks
- Incident response
- Auditing unfamiliar AWS accounts
- Explaining account state during calls or screen shares
Seamless Glance is commercial software. A valid license, trial or paid, is required to run the application.
By using the software you agree to use it in the purpose it was intended and under the uses it was described.
Please open issues or feature requests here: