Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Monitor in a Box – Instantly usable, open source monitoring

solutions.stacktile.io

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 29 posts

Re: Show HN: Monitor in a Box – Instantly usable, open source monitoring

#11

Post by danfromberlin »

VA3FXP wrote: post #8

I would love to read more about your product/service/idea. But I can't. http://contrastrebellion.com/ Being visually impaired just makes things worse. Your site doesn't work with FireFox 'Reader View', and that forces me to 'Toggle CSS' off which causes the icons and site-design to be FUBAR. You might have the best damn product in the world, but if I can't read about it on your own pages then it's no good to me. I on…

Hi VA4FXP,

I'm sorry about that. We'll see what we can do to address this problem.

Re: Show HN: Monitor in a Box – Instantly usable, open source monitoring

#15

Post by danfromberlin »

kristopolous wrote: post #14

Is it just me or do these pitch pages always seem very light on what the software actually does... does it aggregate logs? LD tweaking maybe? Is it a kernel module? What is this technology?

Hi Kristopolous,

In a nutshell, Monitor in a box is a system/application monitoring solution based on Ansible, Icinga 2 and Grafana.

I would like to kindly point you to our demo to see what our software does.

We've also made our code available at github, and I invite you to check out our README to get an idea of how to begin using.

I hope that helps clarify what we're trying to do.

Re: Show HN: Monitor in a Box – Instantly usable, open source monitoring

#16

Post by kristopolous »

danfromberlin wrote: post #15
kristopolous wrote: post #14

Is it just me or do these pitch pages always seem very light on what the software actually does... does it aggregate logs? LD tweaking maybe? Is it a kernel module? What is this technology?

Hi Kristopolous, In a nutshell, Monitor in a box is a system/application monitoring solution based on Ansible, Icinga 2 and Grafana. I would like to kindly point you to our demo to see what our software does. We've also made our code available at github, and I invite you to check out our README to get an idea of how to begin using. I hope that helps clarify what we're trying to do.

The github readme is far better. Have you ever been to the vendor floor of a Linux convention? It's like 30-40 "monitoring" and "devops" solutions with a web dashboard that in my mind are indistinguishable complex solutions to simple problems. I'm looking for simple solutions to complex problems...Thanks for responding

Re: Show HN: Monitor in a Box – Instantly usable, open source monitoring

#17

Post by jamiesonbecker »

kristopolous wrote: post #16
danfromberlin wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi Kristopolous, In a nutshell, Monitor in a box is a system/application monitoring solution based on Ansible, Icinga 2 and Grafana. I would like to kindly point you to our demo to see what our software does. We've also made our code available at github, and I invite you to check out our README to get an idea of how to begin using. I hope that helps clarify what we're trying to do.

The github readme is far better. Have you ever been to the vendor floor of a Linux convention? It's like 30-40 "monitoring" and "devops" solutions with a web dashboard that in my mind are indistinguishable complex solutions to simple problems. I'm looking for simple solutions to complex problems...Thanks for responding

> simple solutions to complex problems

Too true. Messaging that is relevant to both technical people ("devops") and business (management, procurement, etc) is a hard problem to solve, though!

There seems to be a marketing tendency to either gloss over the technical ideas behind a product, or make technical details front-and-center and leave anyone less than 100% technical searching for a product that they can grok.

This is something we're struggling with right now: our basic messaging for Userify (ssh key management), which is actually a fairly simple and sane product, has gotten a bit out of hand as well: our support team is fielding frequent questions like, "what does each edition do." We've got to get on top of that and get some comparison matrices or something up. Applauding the OP for a nice, clean landing page that conveys most of the relevant details, but as you point out, the Github readme is far better. There's a lesson in there somewhere.

Re: Show HN: Monitor in a Box – Instantly usable, open source monitoring

#18

Post by 6DM »

VA3FXP wrote: post #8

I would love to read more about your product/service/idea. But I can't. http://contrastrebellion.com/ Being visually impaired just makes things worse. Your site doesn't work with FireFox 'Reader View', and that forces me to 'Toggle CSS' off which causes the icons and site-design to be FUBAR. You might have the best damn product in the world, but if I can't read about it on your own pages then it's no good to me. I on…

If anyone is looking for a tool to assist on this, the link leads to w3c, which has links directly to some free resources:

https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-cont...

Re: Show HN: Monitor in a Box – Instantly usable, open source monitoring

#19

Post by unethical_ban »

VA3FXP wrote: post #8

I would love to read more about your product/service/idea. But I can't. http://contrastrebellion.com/ Being visually impaired just makes things worse. Your site doesn't work with FireFox 'Reader View', and that forces me to 'Toggle CSS' off which causes the icons and site-design to be FUBAR. You might have the best damn product in the world, but if I can't read about it on your own pages then it's no good to me. I on…

Is reader view an officially supported standard? I must say that if you can't read the #586772 on white, that's a pretty severe handicap that I imagine would require a screenreader.

Let me postscript that I have sympathy for not having full ability to read on the internet, and I'm sure the world would be easier for many if screenreaders and high contrast were universal, but I also wonder whether and by how much design must suffer to accomodate all users.

Post reply on HN