Monitor in a Box
Infrastructure
monitoring
SHOW HN2016
74points
28comments
#519of 2,264 in 2016
Top 23%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
6 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 6 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score -0.07.
Idea: 1 for, 2 againstExecution: 2 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 1 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Support pricing model not per server and funds open source
From 2 comments
I'm impressed with this project's messaging and support/feature pricing structure. I think trying to find more sustainable models for funding open-source software is interesting,…
jeyoor on HNWondering what the free version uses if it doesn't include graphite for dashboarding. It also feels way more invasive to have to install Ansible on all of my servers instead of…
zbjornson on HN
Automation removes Icinga setup hassle
From 2 comments
Very interesting. As one of the sufferers who struggled many times with setting up icinga2 with distributed (and SSL-Encrypted) monitoring, this automation takes a way a lot of…
TjWallas on HNReally nice setup, I'm glad to see Ansible being used to orchestrate the machines. I really do like that system for it's ease of use and low learning-curve.
tlackemann on HN
Objections
Icinga architecture and config approach criticized
From 3 comments
Honestly, fixing Icinga's broken architecture (shared with Nagios, Shinken, Zenoss, and Zabbix) with a bunch of shell and Ansible scripts doesn't seem like very robust solution.…
dozzie on HN> Hi dozie, It's two "z" there. > [...] icinga aims to maintain backwards compatibility with its historically-derived nagios configuration file syntax which is difficult to…
dozzie on HNDiscovery mechanism like this may be nice in some situations, but it doesn't change the underlying architectural problem: you still need to go through central configuration of…
dozzie on HN
Landing page too light on what the software does
From 2 comments
Is it just me or do these pitch pages always seem very light on what the software actually does... does it aggregate logs? LD tweaking maybe? Is it a kernel module? What is this…
kristopolous on HNI'm so stupid, can someone ELI5 what this is for?
randomsofr on HN
Site not readable with Reader View, low contrast text
From 2 comments
I would love to read more about your product/service/idea. But I can't. http://contrastrebellion.com/ Being visually impaired just makes things worse. Your site doesn't work with…
VA3FXP on HNIs reader view an officially supported standard? I must say that if you can't read the #586772 on white, that's a pretty severe handicap that I imagine would require a…
unethical_ban on HN
Requests
Clearer explanation of what the product does
From 2 comments
Is it just me or do these pitch pages always seem very light on what the software actually does... does it aggregate logs? LD tweaking maybe? Is it a kernel module? What is this…
kristopolous on HNThe github readme is far better. Have you ever been to the vendor floor of a Linux convention? It's like 30-40 "monitoring" and "devops" solutions with a web dashboard that in my…
kristopolous on HN
Fix accessibility and contrast on the site
From 1 comment
I would love to read more about your product/service/idea. But I can't. http://contrastrebellion.com/ Being visually impaired just makes things worse. Your site doesn't work with…
VA3FXP on HN
Questions
What the free version includes versus paid
From 2 comments
Wondering what the free version uses if it doesn't include graphite for dashboarding. It also feels way more invasive to have to install Ansible on all of my servers instead of…
zbjornson on HNHi zbjornson, regarding your question about "Wondering what the free version uses if it doesn't include graphite for dashboarding": the answer is that free version just includes…
danfromberlin on HN
Alternatives named
Zabbix
From 1 comment
> You can't just start collecting data about servers as they get installed and about services and resources as they emerge and disappear. You can do that in Zabbix, it has two…
maxhq on HN
Nagios
From 1 comment
As someone from the Windows world, I'm always surprised to read things like: "That said, the more specific you customize your monitoring, the more detailed an understanding of…
DougN7 on HN
Mail-in-a-Box style installers
From 1 comment
Very interesting. As one of the sufferers who struggled many times with setting up icinga2 with distributed (and SSL-Encrypted) monitoring, this automation takes a way a lot of…
TjWallas on HN