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Re: Show HN: WebGazer – Simple and Affordable Website Monitoring Service

#11

Post by th0th »

fredley wrote: post #5

I currently use https://uptimerobot.com/ (free plan) and I'm happy with it. The free plan seems to offer more than yours (50 alert delivery targets & sites watched, same cadence, same metrics, public status pages included in free tier, including RSS, log exporting etc.). To upgrade to pro would also be 10x cheaper for a similar service-level[1,2]. Why should I switch? 1: https://app.webgazer.io/billing 2: https://upt…

Hi, this is Gokhan from WebGazer Team. Thanks for the comment, we are aware of the availability of cheaper services. As a matter of fact, some of them are the reason we started WebGazer.

Alerting is a basic thing and it is done kind of OK by some others. But true analytics is hard to get, we are still working on providing better reports. As an obvious plus, we provide status pages we produce by the monitoring data collected. This is for not making you depend on another service just for a status page.

Also, we are looking for ways to make WebGazer a complete monitoring and analytics platform. Plans still aren't very clear but server monitoring or client-side analytics are some things we have in mind.

Re: Show HN: WebGazer – Simple and Affordable Website Monitoring Service

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Post by TekMol »

"This website is operated by WebGazer, Inc."

Is this a US company? I can not find any other info on the site. How would one go about figuring out if this is a legit company?

In the US, do you have a public online-registry where one can look up company details like address, revenue etc?

Re: Show HN: WebGazer – Simple and Affordable Website Monitoring Service

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Post by th0th »

TekMol wrote: post #12

"This website is operated by WebGazer, Inc." Is this a US company? I can not find any other info on the site. How would one go about figuring out if this is a legit company? In the US, do you have a public online-registry where one can look up company details like address, revenue etc?

Here are the links:

* Terms of Service: https://www.webgazer.io/terms-of-service/

* Privacy Policy: https://www.webgazer.io/privacy-policy/

If you need anything else, we'd be glad to help, just e-mail at info ~at~ webgazer.io.

Edit: We are a Delaware company, I guess you can query on State's website.

Re: Show HN: WebGazer – Simple and Affordable Website Monitoring Service

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Post by TekMol »

th0th wrote: post #13
TekMol wrote: post #12

"This website is operated by WebGazer, Inc." Is this a US company? I can not find any other info on the site. How would one go about figuring out if this is a legit company? In the US, do you have a public online-registry where one can look up company details like address, revenue etc?

Here are the links: * Terms of Service: https://www.webgazer.io/terms-of-service/ * Privacy Policy: https://www.webgazer.io/privacy-policy/ If you need anything else, we'd be glad to help, just e-mail at info ~at~ webgazer.io. Edit: We are a Delaware company, I guess you can query on State's website.

Thanks.

For me, living in Europe, it feels kinda strange when I am supposed to enter my credit card details on a page that is kind of anonymous.

Over here, every site has to state the address, business id and other information. And you can look up company history in a central repository.

Re: Show HN: WebGazer – Simple and Affordable Website Monitoring Service

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Post by th0th »

fredley wrote: post #6
xtralife wrote: post #2

We created WebGazer to provide simple, affordable and mission critical website monitoring service. We are so happy to hear any feedback and ready to improve ourselves. WebGazer is a website monitoring service checking your website on a regular basis. It notifies you with instant alerts in case of a problem. That way, you have a piece of mind about the status of your service without manually checking it. You can publi…

Clicking 'Advanced Settings' when editing a Gazer gives a blank page for me in Firefox.

Sorry, this one was a bit tricky to debug but it should be fixed now :)

Re: Show HN: WebGazer – Simple and Affordable Website Monitoring Service

#16

Post by fredley »

th0th wrote: post #11
fredley wrote: post #5

I currently use https://uptimerobot.com/ (free plan) and I'm happy with it. The free plan seems to offer more than yours (50 alert delivery targets & sites watched, same cadence, same metrics, public status pages included in free tier, including RSS, log exporting etc.). To upgrade to pro would also be 10x cheaper for a similar service-level[1,2]. Why should I switch? 1: https://app.webgazer.io/billing 2: https://upt…

Hi, this is Gokhan from WebGazer Team. Thanks for the comment, we are aware of the availability of cheaper services. As a matter of fact, some of them are the reason we started WebGazer. Alerting is a basic thing and it is done kind of OK by some others. But true analytics is hard to get, we are still working on providing better reports. As an obvious plus, we provide status pages we produce by the monitoring data co…

From what I see, the 'true analytics' available are exactly the same as what I'm getting already. The data's available from my current service to download raw if I want to export it to another analytics platform anyway. I already have (free!) public status pages, as do most competitors' offerings, so it's not another service.

I don't mean to shit on your product, it's good! I think you need to be clearer about why I should pay quite so much more for it. At the moment it doesn't seem worth it by a long shot. If you plan to build the platform out into something more featureful, then say that, and give early adopters a discount (so that they're not paying more for services which are currently equivalent). Uptime Robot has been around for 8 years, and they're still giving out early-adopter discounts!

Re: Show HN: WebGazer – Simple and Affordable Website Monitoring Service

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Post by th0th »

nodesocket wrote: post #7
xtralife wrote: post #2

We created WebGazer to provide simple, affordable and mission critical website monitoring service. We are so happy to hear any feedback and ready to improve ourselves. WebGazer is a website monitoring service checking your website on a regular basis. It notifies you with instant alerts in case of a problem. That way, you have a piece of mind about the status of your service without manually checking it. You can publi…

Is there a way to configure a check to have to fail across 2 or even 3 locations before being considered down? Also, didn't see a list of data center locations and providers. Are you multi-provider (AWS, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean).

Before sending down notifications, we validate incidents 4 times from different servers (TBH, not from different locations). List of IP addresses that a WebGazer request might originate from will be available on our docs soon.

Re: Show HN: WebGazer – Simple and Affordable Website Monitoring Service

#19

Post by nherment »

Great idea to come into that space but it's going to be a tough battle.

For our company, we had to create our own status monitoring app (open source). It's been a while and I had a short amount of time to find one.

A few reason for why we built our own:

- almost no SaaS allow companies to make advanced (JSON) checks to the data returned by a status endpoint. For example, we have cron jobs running data imports. To verify that these are still running, a /status endpoint on our app returns the last data import date based on the data imported in the DB. If this delay gets bigger than a threshold then we fire an alert.

- we're in B2B. Our clients need to have access to a status page with the ability to download the list of incidents (for SLA & contractual purposes)

- we need 2 levels of status pages. One for customers and one for our internal teams with access to more monitors

- SaaS providers either give the ability to automatically monitor or to manually manage the status page. There is no ability to do both at the same time

- I wanted something simple. And advanced monitoring systems can definitely do the above, but it's ops hell to setup and maintain. I have other things to do.

Re: Show HN: WebGazer – Simple and Affordable Website Monitoring Service

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Post by runako »

nherment wrote: post #19

Great idea to come into that space but it's going to be a tough battle. For our company, we had to create our own status monitoring app (open source). It's been a while and I had a short amount of time to find one. A few reason for why we built our own: - almost no SaaS allow companies to make advanced (JSON) checks to the data returned by a status endpoint. For example, we have cron jobs running data imports. To ver…

It's rare that a customer in your space will give you an actionable product plan. This is a goldmine. (I have had similar needs in the past.)
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