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Hi, I'm Cliff Moon, CEO & co-founder of Opsee. Modern applications are built on 3 kinds of APIs: cloud provider APIs, the business logic APIs your engineering team maintains and third party APIs you rely on like Stripe & Twilio. Monitoring your applications without blind spots requires pulling together monitoring of all 3 into one place, with crisp & actionable alerts instead of a deluge of dashboards to sift through.

Opsee monitors and tests the APIs you rely on, so you can stop worrying about downtime and get back to shipping code. Opsee lets you create health checks for your public facing APIs, ensuring not just their uptime but also validating the data they return and their latency from points all across the globe. We also have an instance you can launch into your AWS environment that lets you health check APIs behind the firewall, and health check Amazon services themselves such as RDS and Cloudwatch.

I'd love to get feedback about your monitoring challenges and what you'd expect to see from a modern monitoring solution.

This is so cool. I got a health check up and running in seconds. We're gonna be trying it out :)

- What are your plans on pricing after beta?

- ETA on sharing dashboards/checks, or some form of team/organization functionality?

- UX Feedback: I dislike the search bar. It's very non-obvious that it's an input, barely even looks clickable.

- General feedback: No obvious way to customize or even view check frequency. Are they every minute? Every 24 hours? I can't tell.

- Bug: I broke webhook test with an ipv6 address. Can I add custom headers to the webhook?

Thanks!

- You'll get a single check for free for life and after that we'll be charging $5 per check / month.

- Teams are coming in the next week or so, we can add you to the whitelist for early access.

- feedback has been relayed to the team, thanks.

- Checks run every 30 seconds, we go into detail in the docs: https://app.opsee.com/docs/checks.

- Unfortunately we don't support IPv6 or custom headers on webhooks quite yet, but we'll put them in the queue to implement.

Continuing my thoughts for earlier, I personally see a need for less-frequent monitoring checks of various kinds. For example, if I could set up a daily check that my SSL certificate is valid for at least 2 more weeks, your service would warn me when my certs are about to expire.

SSL-related asserts would be awesome in general.

Thanks! I'll wait for teams, no need to whitelist me.

$5/check/month gets very expensive, very fast if I want to make a lot of use of your product. Would you consider making single-region checks available for a lower price? eg. in the cases where I care less about latency and more about general availability.

I share the same feeling. $5/check/month is really expensive. but what I realized is that this is no replacement for functional tests.

Congrats on the launch, Cliff!

Very nice, took me about 1minute to set up my first test. Great first time user experience.

Thanks! It's wonderful to hear that the thing our team worked harder on than anything else is appreciated :)

Website looks really nice and simple ,to the point .

I am interested to know the difference between Opsee and Runscope.

The biggest difference is in the way we handle checks inside AWS. When you add our EC2 Instance we automatically discover your infrastructure and track changes. When you create health checks for groups and other dynamic AWS resources (ELBs, RDS, ECS, etc...) we track membership and automatically update your checks with no maintenance.

Could you explain the major difference(s) between Opsee and Pingdom?

I've been a Pingdom user for several years and I can't stand it. I'm very excited to see another player in this market. The one thing we're hoping to see is some form of integration with StatusPage.io. As soon as we have that kind of integration, I'm jumping ship to a new provider.

I've been using Uptime Robot, http://uptimerobot.com/ and I'm happy with it. It can check if a port is open, ping or do an http request.

Hi, I'm Steve and I run product at Opsee. There are a few important differences: 1. The rich assertion language in Opsee means we're checking for more than availability - we're looking for correct responses too. This makes us more useful for checking APIs, since services can fail and still return a 200 2. We're measuring round-trip time for every check - Pingdom charges a lot more for this than their standard checks 3. Usability. Our integrations with Slack and Pagerduty are really simple to set up, our UI is responsive and well...better 4. We can also health check inside your AWS environment when you add our EC2 Instance, giving you more complete coverage. We actually do a lot of cool stuff inside AWS.

What tech stack do you use?

We have a nice write-up in Stackshare about our stack: http://stackshare.io/opsee-co/how-opsee-chose-a-container-or...

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