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Re: Show HN: Monitoror – Unified monitoring wallboard

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post #6

I know people like wallboards and monitors but we found them anti-pattern. If you find yourself looking at a wallboard/dashboard, it should already be an automated alert.

I don't think it is intended to be stared at it 8 hours-straight.

I thinks it's more like a clock: you look at it several times a day, and not only when you hear an alarm.

Re: Show HN: Monitoror – Unified monitoring wallboard

#32
post #8

Reminds me of http://dashing.io/

Dashing was kinda garbage through. There was no standard/sane way to install new plugins. I haven't checked out the currently maintained for, but the original is dead/archived. I made the following for Dashing for tracking Seattle Transit:

https://github.com/sumdog/seatransit

Re: Show HN: Monitoror – Unified monitoring wallboard

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I've been looking at different status board tools and the one thing I've always found missing is dual-stack IPv4+IPv6 tests. It'd be nice to be able to see that both protocols to a given port are working as expected.

I don't want to write my own, so I'll probably settle on one and try to offer up a PR for dual-ip stack checks. I'll take a look at this one too.

Re: Show HN: Monitoror – Unified monitoring wallboard

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post #14
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What would your alert be for # open PRs (an example in the demo linked from posted page)? How often would it fire? Whatever the answer, that's a different thing from this. Both have their place.

If you just want to have a nice visualization to look at some numbers, fine. But, if you want to detect problems, it's ineffective. I saw too many companies do it to actually monitor the state of things and find out problems with charts, numbers, traffic lights etc.

A "nice visualization" is not necessarily just a "pretty"/"shiny" thing to show off to people. Human beings are highly visual creatures with outstanding visual pattern recognition abilities. Maybe you personally don't get anything out of them but the value of visualization is proven. Here are a few sources to get you started: https://www.csgsolutions.com/blog/15-statistics-prove-power-...

Re: Show HN: Monitoror – Unified monitoring wallboard

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It looks like it doesn't actually support changing the port currently, despite the documentation saying it is possible. I already use port 8080 so kind of stuck until I can use a different port.

I got it to run on a different port just fine with the MO_PORT environment variable, FWIW.

Re: Show HN: Monitoror – Unified monitoring wallboard

#38

It looks like it doesn't actually support changing the port currently, despite the documentation saying it is possible. I already use port 8080 so kind of stuck until I can use a different port.

I got it to run on a different port just fine with the MO_PORT environment variable, FWIW.

Turns out its just too early in the day. I wasn't saving the variable beyond setting it. So when I switched terminals it didn't exist. Put it in my bash profile and all is well.

Re: Show HN: Monitoror – Unified monitoring wallboard

#40
post #6

I know people like wallboards and monitors but we found them anti-pattern. If you find yourself looking at a wallboard/dashboard, it should already be an automated alert.

I think wallboards can be interesting. Do you want an alert if your site is suddenly trending on Twitter? If latency and error rates are good, probably not. Would you be interested if you walked by and noticed? Probably.
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