Think of your app like a video game—tools like Prometheus and Grafana are your scoreboard and stats screen, showing what's up with your game. For smoother moves (deployments), try GitHub Actions or Jenkins; they’re like power-ups for easy leveling!
Ask HN: Hosting on Digital Ocean, any advice for monitoring and deployments?
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#15I use DO as well and I use GitHub actions.
My backend is node-ts and a couple Go programs.
Via actions I can restart pm2, build Go, restart those services, and it works great.
As for monitoring, I’m just relying on the DO resource alerts. They’re fine for my needs.
Sorry if it’s too basic. Your needs may very well be different.
I’m trying to keep my setup as simple as possible since I’m solo right now. I used to be a platform engineer before and I don’t think I need anything fancier until I have a few hundred plus customers (b2b) and a dozen employees. Could be wrong, but it’s a full time job doing anything more imo.
Re: Ask HN: Hosting on Digital Ocean, any advice for monitoring and deployments?
#16I use DO as well and I use GitHub actions. My backend is node-ts and a couple Go programs. Via actions I can restart pm2, build Go, restart those services, and it works great. As for monitoring, I’m just relying on the DO resource alerts. They’re fine for my needs. Sorry if it’s too basic. Your needs may very well be different. I’m trying to keep my setup as simple as possible since I’m solo right now. I used to be a…
Just out of curiosity
Are you a solopreneur