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Re: Show HN: MongoDB analytics to track changes in your site's performance

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Maker here. I created DatabaseLog as an internal tool to provide our marketing team with a simple way to track monthly performance (Registered users, Posted jobs etc.) and compare to past performance on our MongoDB data and decided to release it to the world in case it's useful for other makers/teams.

Here's how it works:

1. Connect to remote MongoDB database

2.Define metrics once, simply as creating a {query} or an [aggregation] on your data

3.Analyze changes in your site's performance over various lengths of time and compare to past performance

There is a Free account to track up to 3 metrics and unlimited to track unlimited metrics for $29/month, but payments aren't connected so it's free for unlimited metrics now.

I'm aware there is MongoDB Charts, but I personally wanted something easier to use just for analytics and not only for databases hosted on Mongo Atlas.

I'm transparent about what it stores (https://databaselog.com/doc/we-do-not-store-your-data) and recommend using it with read-only user to be 100% safe nothing changes.

If you're interested in how I built Databaselog, I shared my progress publicly (https://twitter.com/MattHlavacka/status/1264172956130869248)

Please let me know if you're interested or have any feedback.

Re: Show HN: MongoDB analytics to track changes in your site's performance

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Slick landing page, gets immediately to the point. Congrats on launching You might want to consider adding an on-premise plan? I think most DBs are not publicly exposed on the internet?

Makes me think of "Enterprise plans" or "support" with "custom" pricing. Perhaps a third option in your pricing to target businesses in addition to developers? I imagine consulting is a way to gradually develop a better product. 29$ per month probably won't cover costs for long...

Re: Show HN: MongoDB analytics to track changes in your site's performance

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post #3

Slick landing page, gets immediately to the point. Congrats on launching You might want to consider adding an on-premise plan? I think most DBs are not publicly exposed on the internet?

Thanks bauerd! I spent more time changing landing page more than I'd prefer to, but glad to hear it was worth the effort.

If you run MongoDB on server (example AWS or DigitalOcean) you can easily connect to it with MongoDB connection string.

It's advised to run on separate server as MongoDB takes up a considerable amount of RAM and it's never a good idea to run your database service on the same server instance as your production services. I run mine on AWS lightsail for $3,5/month for now.

Will look into adding on-premise, if this gets any traction.

Re: Show HN: MongoDB analytics to track changes in your site's performance

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post #2

Maker here. I created DatabaseLog as an internal tool to provide our marketing team with a simple way to track monthly performance (Registered users, Posted jobs etc.) and compare to past performance on our MongoDB data and decided to release it to the world in case it's useful for other makers/teams. Here's how it works: 1. Connect to remote MongoDB database 2.Define metrics once, simply as creating a {query} or an…

Getting:

Oops! Error

Internal Server Error

during the registration.

Hug of death?

Re: Show HN: MongoDB analytics to track changes in your site's performance

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post #5
post #3

Slick landing page, gets immediately to the point. Congrats on launching You might want to consider adding an on-premise plan? I think most DBs are not publicly exposed on the internet?

Makes me think of "Enterprise plans" or "support" with "custom" pricing. Perhaps a third option in your pricing to target businesses in addition to developers? I imagine consulting is a way to gradually develop a better product. 29$ per month probably won't cover costs for long...

dmerks definitely agreed!

As developers can use Robo3T and write queries, the ideal customer in my mind is a smaller team/startup where developers setup metrics for marketing/product team as they need them but can't use MongoDB.

I'm not sure how to market this as developers need to do the setup, but product or marketing actually needs it.

Any advice on how to market?

Re: Show HN: MongoDB analytics to track changes in your site's performance

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post #7
post #2

Maker here. I created DatabaseLog as an internal tool to provide our marketing team with a simple way to track monthly performance (Registered users, Posted jobs etc.) and compare to past performance on our MongoDB data and decided to release it to the world in case it's useful for other makers/teams. Here's how it works: 1. Connect to remote MongoDB database 2.Define metrics once, simply as creating a {query} or an…

Getting: Oops! Error Internal Server Error during the registration. Hug of death?

Fixed. Lesson learned - don't post on HN Show, when your app runs on $10/month container and db on $3.5 one
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