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Re: Show HN: Real-time application performance monitoring

#11
As with most comments, I'd say very slick and straight to the point demo. The typing text did kinda annoyed me abit - it's probably a give or take as I don't have patience reading things - would prefer to let me jump in and play around with it.

Just curious, did you have to write all the graphing yourselves or did you use a library?

Re: Show HN: Real-time application performance monitoring

#12
Looks awesome, I'll probably install and play around with it for my personal project.

That said, I'm not sure your pricing is aligned correctly. Check out Patio11's excellent article on SaaS pricing (with a company that is in a similar space): http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/08/13/doubling-saas-revenue/

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#14
post #8

Congratulations to the team for a beautiful product and a very beautiful site! I look forward to see more support of other platforms and frameworks (I use Django/Python). I have to think about it a bit more deeply to make a thoughtful comment regarding the product. However, I did catch a few little things that you can fix: 1) http://www.graphdat.com/pricing , "Don’t need history, than it's all free." should be "Don’t…

Thanks very much, we're busy adding support for more languages right now and Python / Django is at the top of the list.

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#15
post #13

Good work ! But how many people would be comfortable installing an agent on a machine or a plugin on web server. Performance and security concerns. It also causes network traffic to send data from server to your cloud. How is it better than Newrelic.

Sure, not everyone will want to install our agent and people using services like Heroku or AppHarbour wont be able to so we're working on a solution for that right now. Having an agent was the best way for us to launch and show off the features we are trying to push like real-time updates and historical zooming.

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#16
This is awesome. Coincidentally, I was looking at various monitoring options and strayed onto HN and found this. I'll be signing up to give this a try.

BTW, your SSL seems to be off. I tried to reach https://graphdat.com and Chrome showed me an error saying your certificate was configured for *.graphdat.com and not for graphdat.com.

EDIT: Played with it for sometime and here's another thought. In the How it works page, each step should link to a page showing how to perform it. Same for the various server and OS logos. I clicked the nginx logo expecting to get directions to install the nginx plugin and instead it sent me to nginx homepage.

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#17
post #9

Very slick landing page. I've not seen that done before (am I clueless?) but I love the text overlay -- much better than a "click here to watch a video intro!" The point is: I watched, and I was engaged. I'm on an iPad so I'm not sure of the whole experience but one thing that came to mind, especially given the "faded" UI is that clicking outside the presentation should allow the user to shortcut to the end and jump…

Nothing too fancy with the overlay, just some good old fashioned javascript + css. Seems like lots of people are interested so we'll whip up a blog post for everyone.

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#18
post #5

That's a really slick UI. Your presentation of data is really good. there are lots of features you could add to this to make it even more useful, but I really like the ability you give now. Is your retention period limited to three months or is that just the amount of data you have on hand ? Also configuration seems to be a bit lacking, is there a way I can change the graphs I have on the screen or select different m…

We're going to stick with 3 months for now, our idea being that we want to keep costs low so the product is pretty affordable to everyone.

We're still debating how the UX for configuration will look, as soon as we figure it out then we can start work on that :)

Re: Show HN: Real-time application performance monitoring

#19
Just an FYI, the link to the windows installer on the modal that launches immediately after you sign-up is dead (http://www.graphdat.com/agent/GraphdatAgent.exe)

Note, I'm only half done with my coffee so...you never know.

Update: I just came back to the site and launched the model seems like the link is now http://windows.graphdat.com/agent/GraphdatAgent.exe which works...

Re: Show HN: Real-time application performance monitoring

#20
I got:

  Graphdat is a very intense graphing experience and to pull it off,
  we need a browser that meets some minimum requirements.

  To use Graphdat, you need to upgrade your browser
I'm running Firefox nightly. (User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:20.0) Gecko/20.0 Firefox/20.0)
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