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realtime event tracking
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How HN took it
12 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score +0.56.
Idea: 6 for, 0 againstDesign: 4 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, beautiful UI and screenshots
From 4 comments
How do you even go about making a UI like that? It's beautiful.
Sargis on HNReally clean design, love it. I can imagine this would be really cool with something like a chat application displaying messages/sec, users online, messages read, stuff like…
ashamedlion on HNI don't have much to say other than, as far as analytics and tracking goes, I'm going to play with a copy of this and see what I can do. The screenshots played quite a big part…
FuzzyDunlop on HNYour GUI (graphs, visualization) are amazing. What graph library did you use?
nodesocket on HN
Useful idea for realtime analytics
From 3 comments
This is really cool and I might have found a very good use for it just by looking at it. One thing though: IMHO it should also be possible to dispatch events over UDP as often…
pilif on HNAwesome! At Fileboard we use lots of third party tools (Mixpanel/KISSMetrics) to keep track of user metrics and stuff but there are always things where these tools just can't…
waseemsadiq on HNBeautiful! Precisely I was talking today with a friend about the need of a tool like this one.
sdepablos on HN
Good showcase of Redis
From 1 comment
Really clean design, love it. I can imagine this would be really cool with something like a chat application displaying messages/sec, users online, messages read, stuff like…
ashamedlion on HN
Objections
MongoDB dependency adds another database to the stack
From 1 comment
I only took a quick glance through the source, but what's with the MongoDB dependency? Is there a chance that what you're using it for could be replaced with Redis? I already use…
chanks on HN
Highcharts may carry licensing costs
From 2 comments
Looks good. I'm noticing it uses highcharts, so there may be licensing costs under some scenarios, correct?
ericb on HNHere are the prices, http://shop.highsoft.com/highcharts.html
amalag on HN
Requests
UDP event dispatch so logging does not block the app
From 1 comment
This is really cool and I might have found a very good use for it just by looking at it. One thing though: IMHO it should also be possible to dispatch events over UDP as often…
pilif on HN
Namespacing of events
From 1 comment
This is great. I see that namespacing of events is on the TODO list and this would allow us to provide analytics to our customers. Great work and very nice UI.
cobrabyte on HN
Demo server
From 1 comment
Any demo server running somewhere?
mrlinx on HN
Questions
Can it track internal transactions across multiple servers?
From 1 comment
Hmm was just thinking. Could I also use this for tracking internal transactions? I am still looking for a good solution to get insight into the statistical/live transactions that…
waseemsadiq on HN
Which graph library is used?
From 1 comment
Your GUI (graphs, visualization) are amazing. What graph library did you use?
nodesocket on HN
Alternatives named
Mixpanel and KISSMetrics
From 1 comment
Awesome! At Fileboard we use lots of third party tools (Mixpanel/KISSMetrics) to keep track of user metrics and stuff but there are always things where these tools just can't…
waseemsadiq on HN
Google Analytics, NewRelic, Amon
From 1 comment
I'm a product manager/developer and find myself wanting to know the real-time and historical usage of the products I manage so that I can proactively address issues and…
crcastle on HN
Marketo
From 1 comment
Let's build a product out of it. Marketo e.g. is a horrible piece of software + way to expensive for startups.
rmoriz on HN