LeanSentry

Infrastructure

application performance monitoring

SHOW HN2013

41points
13comments
#607of 1,739 in 2013
Top 35%of 2013 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

3 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 1 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score +0.17.

Performance: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Readable by non-technical staff as well as engineers

    From 1 comment
    • Hi there, Just a quick comment, we're using LeanSentry to monitor 50 servers and it's being great! We are a brazilian e-Learning SaaS solution provider and the information that…
      geraldomagella on HN
  • Easy setup; useful for monitoring 50 servers

    From 1 comment
    • Hi there, Just a quick comment, we're using LeanSentry to monitor 50 servers and it's being great! We are a brazilian e-Learning SaaS solution provider and the information that…
      geraldomagella on HN
  • Good UI/UX choices

    From 1 comment

Objections

  • Hosted SaaS means sensitive monitoring data leaves the customer's infrastructure

    From 2 comments
    • A few comments: 1. We're probably not going to use it unless we can host it ourselves because we can't possibly risk information leaking out of the infrastructure and being…
      meaty on HN
    • 1. We use GA but this is still my main concern. This kind of data seems to sensitive to be hosted by someone else. 2. There seems to be some SQL stuff in there - IO would be a…
      jolt on HN
  • Limited to IIS/ASP.NET; no coverage of SQL, MSMQ, network or disk IO

    From 1 comment
    • A few comments: 1. We're probably not going to use it unless we can host it ourselves because we can't possibly risk information leaking out of the infrastructure and being…
      meaty on HN
  • Unclear whether it can handle large-scale sites

    From 1 comment
    • A few comments: 1. We're probably not going to use it unless we can host it ourselves because we can't possibly risk information leaking out of the infrastructure and being…
      meaty on HN
  • Pricing is high without a calculator

    From 1 comment
    • Looks cool, certainly seems to provide value above and beyond typical monitoring tools. It would be great if there was a simple calculator on the pricing page, to give a really…
      wingspan on HN

Requests

  • Self-hosted option

    From 2 comments
    • A few comments: 1. We're probably not going to use it unless we can host it ourselves because we can't possibly risk information leaking out of the infrastructure and being…
      meaty on HN
    • 1. We use GA but this is still my main concern. This kind of data seems to sensitive to be hosted by someone else. 2. There seems to be some SQL stuff in there - IO would be a…
      jolt on HN
  • Pricing calculator on pricing page

    From 1 comment
    • Looks cool, certainly seems to provide value above and beyond typical monitoring tools. It would be great if there was a simple calculator on the pricing page, to give a really…
      wingspan on HN
  • Add IO monitoring

    From 1 comment
    • 1. We use GA but this is still my main concern. This kind of data seems to sensitive to be hosted by someone else. 2. There seems to be some SQL stuff in there - IO would be a…
      jolt on HN

Questions

  • How invasive is the optional agent and what performance impact does it have

    From 1 comment
    • Interesting product, considering trying it out. A few questions 1. I gather from reading the How-it-works pages that the monitoring service is not invasive. How about the…
      btb on HN
  • How does it know stored procedure names without connecting to SQL Server

    From 1 comment
    • Interesting product, considering trying it out. A few questions 1. I gather from reading the How-it-works pages that the monitoring service is not invasive. How about the…
      btb on HN
  • Is it safe to run on production web servers

    From 1 comment
    • Interesting product, considering trying it out. A few questions 1. I gather from reading the How-it-works pages that the monitoring service is not invasive. How about the…
      btb on HN
  • Is it easy to remove the monitoring service and agent

    From 1 comment
    • Interesting product, considering trying it out. A few questions 1. I gather from reading the How-it-works pages that the monitoring service is not invasive. How about the…
      btb on HN

Alternatives named

  • New Relic

    From 2 comments
    • How would something like this compare to a product like New Relic?
      mijustin on HN
    • Hi meaty, You are right, most APM tools are working on covering multiple platforms. We are trying to provide extra depth into the Windows Server platform because thats what we…
      mvolo on HN
  • Redgate tools

    From 1 comment
    • Hi meaty, You are right, most APM tools are working on covering multiple platforms. We are trying to provide extra depth into the Windows Server platform because thats what we…
      mvolo on HN

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