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Re: Show HN: Simple monitoring service

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Post by techaddict009 »

Any plans to implement feature like complete server monitoring? Like Google analytic's for Server monitoring?

This is simple yet helpful tool. Those who wish to stay away from nitty gritty of configuring complex apps to monitor their server this can be helpful.

Re: Show HN: Simple monitoring service

#32

Post by vruiz »

techaddict009 wrote: post #31

Any plans to implement feature like complete server monitoring? Like Google analytic's for Server monitoring? This is simple yet helpful tool. Those who wish to stay away from nitty gritty of configuring complex apps to monitor their server this can be helpful.

Indeed there are plans in my head. But that could only happen if I manage to get a big user base while at the same time I find a way to fight abuse without compromising simplicity.

Re: Show HN: Simple monitoring service

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Post by ddon »

halayli wrote: post #10
toomuchtodo wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> seems hard to compete with pingdom As a DevOps, I'd like to disagree with this. Pingdom previously was a joy to work with. Now that they're attempting to bring in PagerDuty-esq features (escalation policies instead of simple alerting), their UX leaves a bit to be desired. Also, I don't have high hopes after the Solarwinds acquisition.

I created https://webmon.com . I'd love to hear your feedback on it since you were a Pingdom customer.

Too expensive... Why all monitor services charge so much for so simple service?

Re: Show HN: Simple monitoring service

#34

Post by deathhand »

vruiz wrote: post #21
deathhand wrote: post #14

This is awesome but what is the motivation behind this? Why do you care to set up a server and pay for the (minimal) bandwidth that is needed for this service? Is this purely an act of goodwill? Do you hope that this will gain traction so that you can start charging for the service? Are you secretly harvesting clusters of IP addresses of HN readers?

Good question! I think most of us with pet projects do it either to learn something or with the hopes of gaining a lot of traction and one day implement some paid feature. For me it was both. Maybe one day if there are a lot of users I'll implement paid accounts with more than 10 alerts and history dashboard. But most likely it will never gain enough traction for that, in which case it's no problem, since I have 6 ti…

Thanks! "Trust" on the internet is never a thing and I have been growing suspicious of it more everyday. Way back when you could almost trust your DCC on IRC but lucrativeness involved with the 'unwashed masses' in using the internet make this horrible problem for a technologist exploring new things.

Re: Show HN: Simple monitoring service

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Post by halayli »

ddon wrote: post #33
halayli wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I created https://webmon.com . I'd love to hear your feedback on it since you were a Pingdom customer.

Too expensive... Why all monitor services charge so much for so simple service?

It's not as simple as you'd think. Monitoring 1 website is easy, monitoring 1M websites and gathering results in realtime from stations around the globe to make a proper decision is a different thing. Significant bandwidth, and CPU are needed to achieve this, not to mention relying on third party services like twilio and sendgrid to notify customers and that cost money too.

Re: Show HN: Simple monitoring service

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Post by encoderer »

Congrats on shipping. I run a very different kind of monitoring service (alerts when your cron jobs and other scheduled tasks don't run or take too long, see my profile for details). I'm wondering why you don't offer paid plans. In addition to reward for your work, business users really would rather rely on a business and not a hobby. Maybe your target market is hobbyists but you should certainly consider a paid plan early on. Our subscribers are an important voice in our product decisions and doubly so early on.

Re: Show HN: Simple monitoring service

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Post by vruiz »

encoderer wrote: post #37

Congrats on shipping. I run a very different kind of monitoring service (alerts when your cron jobs and other scheduled tasks don't run or take too long, see my profile for details). I'm wondering why you don't offer paid plans. In addition to reward for your work, business users really would rather rely on a business and not a hobby. Maybe your target market is hobbyists but you should certainly consider a paid plan…

Thanks. This project for me is just a proof of concept. Having paid customers would require dedicating massively more time to initial development and maintenance, which simply I'm not ready to do until the idea is somewhat validated. Best of luck with your venture!
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