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Re: Show HN: Instant alerts for applications in distress

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Post by cliffmoon »

Hi, I'm Cliff Moon, CEO & co-founder of Opsee. Modern applications are built on 3 kinds of APIs: cloud provider APIs, the business logic APIs your engineering team maintains and third party APIs you rely on like Stripe & Twilio. Monitoring your applications without blind spots requires pulling together monitoring of all 3 into one place, with crisp & actionable alerts instead of a deluge of dashboards to sift through.

Opsee monitors and tests the APIs you rely on, so you can stop worrying about downtime and get back to shipping code. Opsee lets you create health checks for your public facing APIs, ensuring not just their uptime but also validating the data they return and their latency from points all across the globe. We also have an instance you can launch into your AWS environment that lets you health check APIs behind the firewall, and health check Amazon services themselves such as RDS and Cloudwatch.

I'd love to get feedback about your monitoring challenges and what you'd expect to see from a modern monitoring solution.

Re: Show HN: Instant alerts for applications in distress

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Post by aeden »

cliffmoon wrote: post #2

Hi, I'm Cliff Moon, CEO & co-founder of Opsee. Modern applications are built on 3 kinds of APIs: cloud provider APIs, the business logic APIs your engineering team maintains and third party APIs you rely on like Stripe & Twilio. Monitoring your applications without blind spots requires pulling together monitoring of all 3 into one place, with crisp & actionable alerts instead of a deluge of dashboards to sift through…

Congrats on the launch, Cliff!

Re: Show HN: Instant alerts for applications in distress

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Post by scrollaway »

cliffmoon wrote: post #2

Hi, I'm Cliff Moon, CEO & co-founder of Opsee. Modern applications are built on 3 kinds of APIs: cloud provider APIs, the business logic APIs your engineering team maintains and third party APIs you rely on like Stripe & Twilio. Monitoring your applications without blind spots requires pulling together monitoring of all 3 into one place, with crisp & actionable alerts instead of a deluge of dashboards to sift through…

This is so cool. I got a health check up and running in seconds. We're gonna be trying it out :)

- What are your plans on pricing after beta?

- ETA on sharing dashboards/checks, or some form of team/organization functionality?

- UX Feedback: I dislike the search bar. It's very non-obvious that it's an input, barely even looks clickable.

- General feedback: No obvious way to customize or even view check frequency. Are they every minute? Every 24 hours? I can't tell.

- Bug: I broke webhook test with an ipv6 address. Can I add custom headers to the webhook?

Re: Show HN: Instant alerts for applications in distress

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Post by cliffmoon »

scrollaway wrote: post #4
cliffmoon wrote: post #2

Hi, I'm Cliff Moon, CEO & co-founder of Opsee. Modern applications are built on 3 kinds of APIs: cloud provider APIs, the business logic APIs your engineering team maintains and third party APIs you rely on like Stripe & Twilio. Monitoring your applications without blind spots requires pulling together monitoring of all 3 into one place, with crisp & actionable alerts instead of a deluge of dashboards to sift through…

This is so cool. I got a health check up and running in seconds. We're gonna be trying it out :) - What are your plans on pricing after beta? - ETA on sharing dashboards/checks, or some form of team/organization functionality? - UX Feedback: I dislike the search bar. It's very non-obvious that it's an input, barely even looks clickable. - General feedback: No obvious way to customize or even view check frequency. Are…

Thanks!

- You'll get a single check for free for life and after that we'll be charging $5 per check / month.

- Teams are coming in the next week or so, we can add you to the whitelist for early access.

- feedback has been relayed to the team, thanks.

- Checks run every 30 seconds, we go into detail in the docs: https://app.opsee.com/docs/checks.

- Unfortunately we don't support IPv6 or custom headers on webhooks quite yet, but we'll put them in the queue to implement.

Re: Show HN: Instant alerts for applications in distress

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Post by sboak »

robbiemitchell wrote: post #6

Could you explain the major difference(s) between Opsee and Pingdom?

Hi, I'm Steve and I run product at Opsee. There are a few important differences: 1. The rich assertion language in Opsee means we're checking for more than availability - we're looking for correct responses too. This makes us more useful for checking APIs, since services can fail and still return a 200 2. We're measuring round-trip time for every check - Pingdom charges a lot more for this than their standard checks 3. Usability. Our integrations with Slack and Pagerduty are really simple to set up, our UI is responsive and well...better 4. We can also health check inside your AWS environment when you add our EC2 Instance, giving you more complete coverage. We actually do a lot of cool stuff inside AWS.

Re: Show HN: Instant alerts for applications in distress

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Post by scrollaway »

cliffmoon wrote: post #5
scrollaway wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is so cool. I got a health check up and running in seconds. We're gonna be trying it out :) - What are your plans on pricing after beta? - ETA on sharing dashboards/checks, or some form of team/organization functionality? - UX Feedback: I dislike the search bar. It's very non-obvious that it's an input, barely even looks clickable. - General feedback: No obvious way to customize or even view check frequency. Are…

Thanks! - You'll get a single check for free for life and after that we'll be charging $5 per check / month. - Teams are coming in the next week or so, we can add you to the whitelist for early access. - feedback has been relayed to the team, thanks. - Checks run every 30 seconds, we go into detail in the docs: https://app.opsee.com/docs/checks . - Unfortunately we don't support IPv6 or custom headers on webhooks qui…

Thanks! I'll wait for teams, no need to whitelist me.

$5/check/month gets very expensive, very fast if I want to make a lot of use of your product. Would you consider making single-region checks available for a lower price? eg. in the cases where I care less about latency and more about general availability.

Re: Show HN: Instant alerts for applications in distress

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Post by jonathanoliver »

robbiemitchell wrote: post #6

Could you explain the major difference(s) between Opsee and Pingdom?

I've been a Pingdom user for several years and I can't stand it. I'm very excited to see another player in this market. The one thing we're hoping to see is some form of integration with StatusPage.io. As soon as we have that kind of integration, I'm jumping ship to a new provider.
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