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

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Post by anderiv »

StavrosK wrote: post #29
fredley wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

My word I’ve been looking for a self-hosted alternative to Dead Man’s Snitch for ages. Thank you for this!

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

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Post by WhiteOwlLion »

fredley wrote: post #16
th0th wrote: post #11

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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…

I use UptimeRobot too. Works fine for me and I get reliable notifications by e-mail when an IP address or domain is unavailable.

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

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Post by LaundroMat »

Is it possible to monitor specific parts of a page (eg via xpath)?

I have a nightly cron job running that dumps data to the database. On the homepage of the website it says how many new entries were created overnight. If that amount is zero, there's a 99% chance the cron job failed. It would be nice to be notified if the homepage says 0 entries were created overnight.

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

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Post by _ewbb »

LaundroMat wrote: post #33

Is it possible to monitor specific parts of a page (eg via xpath)? I have a nightly cron job running that dumps data to the database. On the homepage of the website it says how many new entries were created overnight. If that amount is zero, there's a 99% chance the cron job failed. It would be nice to be notified if the homepage says 0 entries were created overnight.

My next project thank you :)

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

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Post by nherment »

StavrosK wrote: post #30
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…

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

Very interesting way to solve it! I like the idea.

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

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Post by nherment »

tibu wrote: post #28
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…

Do you have a public repo for your app?

https://github.com/nherment/dn5

That was mostly coded over weekends, with no regards to code quality. Note that we still rely on an old version of the implementation to fire alerts, until this one is brought up to speed.

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

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Post by StavrosK »

anderiv wrote: post #31
StavrosK wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

My word I’ve been looking for a self-hosted alternative to Dead Man’s Snitch for ages. Thank you for this!

You're welcome, that's exactly why I made it! Please open an issue if you have any feature requests or notice any bugs!
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