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Re: Show HN: Instant alerts for applications in distress

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Post by sboak »

ing33k wrote: post #11

Website looks really nice and simple ,to the point . I am interested to know the difference between Opsee and Runscope.

The biggest difference is in the way we handle checks inside AWS. When you add our EC2 Instance we automatically discover your infrastructure and track changes. When you create health checks for groups and other dynamic AWS resources (ELBs, RDS, ECS, etc...) we track membership and automatically update your checks with no maintenance.

Re: Show HN: Instant alerts for applications in distress

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Post by rom16384 »

jonathanoliver wrote: post #9
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.

I've been using Uptime Robot, http://uptimerobot.com/ and I'm happy with it. It can check if a port is open, ping or do an http request.

Re: Show HN: Instant alerts for applications in distress

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Post by scrollaway »

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

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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…

Continuing my thoughts for earlier, I personally see a need for less-frequent monitoring checks of various kinds. For example, if I could set up a daily check that my SSL certificate is valid for at least 2 more weeks, your service would warn me when my certs are about to expire.

SSL-related asserts would be awesome in general.

Re: Show HN: Instant alerts for applications in distress

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Post by ing33k »

scrollaway wrote: post #8
cliffmoon wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I share the same feeling. $5/check/month is really expensive. but what I realized is that this is no replacement for functional tests.
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