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Re: Show HN: SeaLion 2 – Linux Server Monitoring, Alerting and Debugging Tool

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Immediately interested by the title of this post as I'm using a competing product (Scout App) right now, clicked through and subsequently left the site within 10 seconds. That is a terrible website considering your target market are UNIX geeks.

What's wrong with Linux geeks looking at well designed websites?

Re: Show HN: SeaLion 2 – Linux Server Monitoring, Alerting and Debugging Tool

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Immediately interested by the title of this post as I'm using a competing product (Scout App) right now, clicked through and subsequently left the site within 10 seconds. That is a terrible website considering your target market are UNIX geeks.

What's wrong with Linux geeks looking at well designed websites?

I'm a UNIX geek and I too love "well designed websites" - and imho that site isn't a well designed website.

The majority of us are probably using a touchpad on our laptops and the scrolling thing is just horrible in that case.

The target customer will expect easily laid out information (as this is a web-based monitoring service) and if they see this "at the front door" then they'll run a mile.

Re: Show HN: SeaLion 2 – Linux Server Monitoring, Alerting and Debugging Tool

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The scroll thing is very annoying. Can't you just have a list of product features?

This style is Powerpoint for the web.

The thing that gets me is the color contrast between "slides". Not very pleasing to the eye, unsettling really..

Re: Show HN: SeaLion 2 – Linux Server Monitoring, Alerting and Debugging Tool

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The scroll thing is very annoying. Can't you just have a list of product features?

This can't be stated enough: everyone hates the scroll thing. Everyone. Even if people don't hate it, it sure isn't going to bring them more business. More the opposite.

Re: Show HN: SeaLion 2 – Linux Server Monitoring, Alerting and Debugging Tool

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I come from using New Relic for our server monitoring, and there are a couple things that I can see that I already love about Sea Lion, their realtime stats, and ad-hoc commands really opens up to allow any kind of monitoring. I would like to see the ability to rename servers instead of using their hostname.. as well as multiple stats on the page at once.. Other than that, this is really awesome! Considering going on…

Is there an equivalent of New Relics application performance monitoring? For example the view of time spent in script, DB, memcache, external, etc all in a stacked line graph?

Noone has really been able to knock new relic for the ubiquity, cross-language support, etc..

New Relic's server monitoring is a toy, however - that's why it's free.

Re: Show HN: SeaLion 2 – Linux Server Monitoring, Alerting and Debugging Tool

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I've got two problems here.

1) Cloud based. No, no, no, absolutely not, no way, no how. I am not hooking up server farms to the internet. Monitoring systems stay behind the firewall. Please come up with a self-hosted version.

Moreso when:

2) They log directly into the system. Unprivileged user or not, if you've got shell on my box, "you" being a random company on the internet, it's not my box anymore. Someone hacks you and by extension they've hacked me.

Re: Show HN: SeaLion 2 – Linux Server Monitoring, Alerting and Debugging Tool

#29

I've got two problems here. 1) Cloud based. No, no, no, absolutely not, no way, no how. I am not hooking up server farms to the internet. Monitoring systems stay behind the firewall. Please come up with a self-hosted version. Moreso when: 2) They log directly into the system. Unprivileged user or not, if you've got shell on my box, "you" being a random company on the internet, it's not my box anymore. Someone hacks…

It wasn't clear from reading the homepage, but I was hoping this only sent data OUT via HTTP and didn't require giving access to the system at all. If they actually require access to my system, that's a little disappointing.

Re: Show HN: SeaLion 2 – Linux Server Monitoring, Alerting and Debugging Tool

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The scroll thing is very annoying. Can't you just have a list of product features?

I didn't find it terrible until I got to the end I kept scrolling and ended up back at the beginning. That was a pretty terrible experience.
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