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Re: Show HN: Ducksboard launched a new API and is giving away free subscriptions

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I see lots of GitHub support... any plans to show BitBucket some love? (We HG users need metrics too, you know...)

Of course! Even if I don't have an ETA to give you right now. We're adding many new services per month, prioritizing based on users requests.

Re: Show HN: Ducksboard launched a new API and is giving away free subscriptions

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We've been looking for a dashboard for our engineering group to get some better real-time visibility into the health of our systems (been weighing internal run and hosted solutions). That said, we have a massive amount of data coming in we'd like to track and I couldn't find anything about volume, data-rate or event-rate limits/pricing. However, part of the $29 plan info is obscured by the signup button, so it may ju…

Depending on the Android version and browser you're using, the webapp won't work properly. It's working on Android 3 and 4 stock browser, as well as Chrome Beta. Some browsers on Android 2 are compatible as well, like Firefox beta last time I had a look. Let us know which is your setup and I'll be able to give you more insight. As for the rate limiting, we don't limit at the moment. If you really have a lot of data y…

It's running 2.3 with the stock browser, no huge worries on it not working, I had a chance to look at stuff from a full-fledged computer and it worked decidedly better :).

That said, I'd like to discuss our particular scenario(s) and volume, is the contact@ducksboard.com the right email to go ahead and shoot a message to?

Re: Show HN: Ducksboard launched a new API and is giving away free subscriptions

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I don't see any data in the widgets, the javascript console tells me that the websocket closes and tries to reconnect every 10 seconds or so. Browser is chromium 18, let me know if you need any more information.

Hi manveru.

Your username (email) in Ducksboard would help us track down the problem.

You can create a support ticket using the application's menu "Support" option to handle this communication and future question we may need to ask.

Re: Show HN: Ducksboard launched a new API and is giving away free subscriptions

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I see lots of GitHub support... any plans to show BitBucket some love? (We HG users need metrics too, you know...)

Of course! Even if I don't have an ETA to give you right now. We're adding many new services per month, prioritizing based on users requests.

Awesome, great to hear.

I've got a few side projects I'm trying to start, and I'll look at using DB to track some metrics where it makes sense.

Thanks, and good luck

Re: Show HN: Ducksboard launched a new API and is giving away free subscriptions

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New APIs look great! I would love to see the ability to increment a value via the API instead of pushing the total. We have a lot of events we would love to track, but don't want to store the total locally.

This is something many people have been asking for, and we always listen to what people say :)

The feature is in design phase, we're pretty close to implement it. Expect to see it landing in the next few weeks.

Re: Show HN: Ducksboard launched a new API and is giving away free subscriptions

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Depending on the Android version and browser you're using, the webapp won't work properly. It's working on Android 3 and 4 stock browser, as well as Chrome Beta. Some browsers on Android 2 are compatible as well, like Firefox beta last time I had a look. Let us know which is your setup and I'll be able to give you more insight. As for the rate limiting, we don't limit at the moment. If you really have a lot of data y…

It's running 2.3 with the stock browser, no huge worries on it not working, I had a chance to look at stuff from a full-fledged computer and it worked decidedly better :). That said, I'd like to discuss our particular scenario(s) and volume, is the contact@ducksboard.com the right email to go ahead and shoot a message to?

Yes, email us there :)

Re: Show HN: Ducksboard launched a new API and is giving away free subscriptions

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The main beef I have with geckoboard is a litany of embarrassing unresolved bugs but these features sound pretty cool. Am trying out your API tutorial right now.

Paul from Geckoboard here. Would love to hear how we can do better. Happy to respond here or you can shoot me a mail, paul at geckoboard.com

All in all, minor issues, but: you filter out "target" attributes on URLs. I have links in my dashboard that I want to automatically open in another window so I don't close the dashboard window. Not sure why "target" is a banned attribute.

Also, public loop URLs don't appear to actually loop: I have 2 dashboards both added to the public loop, and nothing I seem to do will make them do that in either Firefox 11, Chrome 18 or Chrome 13 (on my Google TV that I use to display on a big screen).

Also, making your push interface public WOULD be a significant improvement over the existing interface: it gets tedious having to write authenticated web handlers purely to feed data to the dashboard, I'd much rather write cron jobs to do that.

Re: Show HN: Ducksboard launched a new API and is giving away free subscriptions

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The widgets (oh how I loathe that word) snap into place; could this...is this....an optional...option. That's perhaps one of the strangest sentences I've constructed in awhile. Although having it snap helps most people stay organized and uncluttered; I actually would prefer the ability to be more...creative.

This is fantastic of you thanks!

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