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

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Can I monitor site performance? TTFB, min/max/average download size across time, etc...?

Currently, our reports focus on timings. Like how long stages (dns resolution, handshake, download etc.) of request takes.

Download size is an interesting idea, note taken. Would you mind if I reached you for details on this?

Also, here is an example of what I mean by request stages timing: https://imgur.com/a/fKsVIc3

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

#22

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…

We have the idea on the roadmap that will exactly solve the problem you mentioned on the first item of your list. We were having doubts about the use case, your comment got us excited.

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

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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.

> it feels kinda strange when I am supposed to enter my credit card details on a page that is kind of anonymous.

Dispute the charge based on the written contract within the time allowed... no worries!

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

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This is interesting.

With Serverless Function and Serverless Database (Dynamo,Cloud Datastore etc..) setting up something like this would basically take a few minutes.

The biggest value rely lies in the UI and the UX and all the extra stuff that comes with it , like having pretty Analytics .

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

#26

Can I monitor site performance? TTFB, min/max/average download size across time, etc...?

Currently, our reports focus on timings. Like how long stages (dns resolution, handshake, download etc.) of request takes. Download size is an interesting idea, note taken. Would you mind if I reached you for details on this? Also, here is an example of what I mean by request stages timing: https://imgur.com/a/fKsVIc3

Yes, sure, contact me and we can talk about it

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

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This is interesting. With Serverless Function and Serverless Database (Dynamo,Cloud Datastore etc..) setting up something like this would basically take a few minutes. The biggest value rely lies in the UI and the UX and all the extra stuff that comes with it , like having pretty Analytics .

I have been developing web stuff for about 10 years. The dilemma I experienced about monitoring is that when you do your own monitoring you need to make sure your monitor is working, too. Relying on an external platform sounds saner when I consider this. This is why we consider WebGazer "mission critical".

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

#28

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…

Do you have a public repo for your app?

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

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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…

Where do you get your status pages from?

EDIT: I wrote some OSS to email you if a service (like a cronjob) does not check in[0]. Maybe I should add a status page component to it so you can see failed services at a glance, that seems like the right way to do status pages.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/stavros/caduceus

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

#30

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…

I wrote something to help with the first case (it'll email you if your service doesn't check in): https://gitlab.com/stavros/caduceus
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