Monitoror

Infrastructure

monitoring dashboard

SHOW HN2020

295points
121comments
#141of 3,028 in 2020
Top 5%of 2020 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

7 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 6 critical, out of 30 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.

Idea: 3 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Nice design

    From 1 comment
    • Nice design! Looks to be targeted at developers, but it could be good for product managers too. Some tile ideas; Issue counts, PR counts, vanity metrics... plenty of room for…
      gitgud on HN
  • Handy tool for monitoring

    From 1 comment
    • Nice handy tool, one grip is the scaling with different sizes, the text does scale, but not the box modules.. Small thing but really nice tool
      bilekas on HN

Objections

  • Wallboards are an anti-pattern; alerts should be automated

    From 2 comments
    • I know people like wallboards and monitors but we found them anti-pattern. If you find yourself looking at a wallboard/dashboard, it should already be an automated alert.
      CSDude on HN
    • Yes, which is why you shouldn't use wall boards for alerting, only for visualization.…
      geofft on HN
  • Mobile layout does not scale well

    From 1 comment
    • Cool item but didn’t scale well for mobile (iOS iPhone XS Plus)
      kkirsche on HN
  • Port setting does not work as documented

    From 1 comment
    • It looks like it doesn't actually support changing the port currently, despite the documentation saying it is possible. I already use port 8080 so kind of stuck until I can use a…
      Jeremy1026 on HN

Requests

  • Add dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 checks

    From 1 comment
    • I've been looking at different status board tools and the one thing I've always found missing is dual-stack IPv4+IPv6 tests. It'd be nice to be able to see that both protocols to…
      djsumdog on HN
  • Add calendar, weather and command output tiles

    From 1 comment
    • Could you grab and parse content with this? I'm not really using CI stuff, but showing events (calendar), grabbing weather data or output from other simple commands (health…
      BlackLotus89 on HN

Questions

  • Why use this instead of Grafana

    From 1 comment
    • Care to explain why one would use this over something much more capable like Grafana? [1] [1] https://github.com/grafana/grafana
      soygul on HN

Alternatives named

  • Grafana

    From 1 comment
    • Care to explain why one would use this over something much more capable like Grafana? [1] [1] https://github.com/grafana/grafana
      soygul on HN
  • Status Board (Panic iOS app)

    From 1 comment
    • Panic used to have an iOS app that did this. It was called Status Board, and was magnificent. You could put it on an old iPad on an easel on your desk and watch everything from…
      reaperducer on HN
  • Dashing

    From 1 comment
  • Geckoboard

    From 1 comment
  • wtfutil

    From 1 comment
    • For a terminal version of this, I really like https://wtfutil.com/ Create a config file, and you get something similar.
      CubsFan1060 on HN

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