Show HN: My weekend project – simple cron monitoring
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#2Hey HN! My friend augustflanagan and I both had a need for some really simple cron monitoring. A way to monitor our critical jobs without configuring Nagios first. We wanted a simple SAAS monitoring solution that we could trust to alert us right away when a job isn't running on schedule.
We mentioned this to a couple of friends who said they needed the same simple monitoring. Having people tell you they need something is a great motivator, so we built cronitor in a couple of weekends and are putting it out there. We'd love feedback and suggestions on how to make it better. Thanks!
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#3Looks cool. The "Pick this Plan" buttons at the bottom don't appear to be working, though. I'm not sure if you're aware of that.
Re: Show HN: My weekend project – simple cron monitoring
#4Hey HN! My friend augustflanagan and I both had a need for some really simple cron monitoring. A way to monitor our critical jobs without configuring Nagios first. We wanted a simple SAAS monitoring solution that we could trust to alert us right away when a job isn't running on schedule. We mentioned this to a couple of friends who said they needed the same simple monitoring. Having people tell you they need somethin…
You were not aware of https://deadmanssnitch.com ?
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#5I really liked the plan names especially the top plan, NSA (Monitor Everything). Got a good laugh out of it. :)
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#6Awesome idea but the price outweighs the pain factor, for me.
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#7Awesome idea but the price outweighs the pain factor, for me.
I agree with you. It's cool, but not 7$ / month, or 20$ /month cool.
Re: Show HN: My weekend project – simple cron monitoring
#8Hey HN! My friend augustflanagan and I both had a need for some really simple cron monitoring. A way to monitor our critical jobs without configuring Nagios first. We wanted a simple SAAS monitoring solution that we could trust to alert us right away when a job isn't running on schedule. We mentioned this to a couple of friends who said they needed the same simple monitoring. Having people tell you they need somethin…
You were not aware of https://deadmanssnitch.com ?
There are others, like Proby (which I mentioned here [1]), yet I find that having more competitors in that space would be helpful, because not everyone has exactly the same needs. Congrats for shipping!
[1] https://www.wisecashhq.com/blog/writing-reliable-cron-jobs
Re: Show HN: My weekend project – simple cron monitoring
#9Awesome idea but the price outweighs the pain factor, for me.
As a counter-point I will say that most of my freelancing clients are perfectly willing to pay that and more, for platforms where a cron that misbehaves has consequences.
I would suggest not to lower the prices :-)
EDIT: I prefer to pay more than $20/mo if this means that your product won't end up being stale and unmaintained.
Re: Show HN: My weekend project – simple cron monitoring
#10Hey HN! My friend augustflanagan and I both had a need for some really simple cron monitoring. A way to monitor our critical jobs without configuring Nagios first. We wanted a simple SAAS monitoring solution that we could trust to alert us right away when a job isn't running on schedule. We mentioned this to a couple of friends who said they needed the same simple monitoring. Having people tell you they need somethin…
You were not aware of https://deadmanssnitch.com ?
We gave it a shot but there were a couple things we needed that we couldn't get from DMS. Specifically, I have hourly jobs that started taking longer than an hour to run. I needed timing-based alerts for that. We also needed to be alerted in real time in a way DMS doesn't provide.