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Maker here. I created DatabaseLog as an internal tool to provide our marketing team with a simple way to track monthly performance (Registered users, Posted jobs etc.) and compare to past performance on our MongoDB data and decided to release it to the world in case it's useful for other makers/teams.

Here's how it works:

1. Connect to remote MongoDB database

2.Define metrics once, simply as creating a {query} or an [aggregation] on your data

3.Analyze changes in your site's performance over various lengths of time and compare to past performance

There is a Free account to track up to 3 metrics and unlimited to track unlimited metrics for $29/month, but payments aren't connected so it's free for unlimited metrics now.

I'm aware there is MongoDB Charts, but I personally wanted something easier to use just for analytics and not only for databases hosted on Mongo Atlas.

I'm transparent about what it stores (https://databaselog.com/doc/we-do-not-store-your-data) and recommend using it with read-only user to be 100% safe nothing changes.

If you're interested in how I built Databaselog, I shared my progress publicly (https://twitter.com/MattHlavacka/status/1264172956130869248)

Please let me know if you're interested or have any feedback.

Getting:

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during the registration.

Hug of death?

Fixed. Lesson learned - don't post on HN Show, when your app runs on $10/month container and db on $3.5 one

Thanks. No support for Replica Sets yet?

Not yet, I wanted to see if someone finds this actually useful first.

Is it possible for you to connect directly with a single database?

It took me an embarrassing amount of time to realize this wasn't an official MongoDB product. But that's a compliment! The landing page is great.

Really interested in behind-the-firewall options. Nobody should punch a hole in their network exposing their DB to the Internet. IMO you should offer VPC peering for AWS & GCP so this can work entirely on private networks.

Thanks for compliment vngzs!

As you and more commenters pointed out, current connection to db isn't very optimal.

I added a note "Allow remote connection to MongoDB port (27017) from 165.22.32.162" while I try to come up with a better solution.

If you can share some advice/article on how VPC peering for AWS & GCP works, I'll be grateful.

At the very least, you need to provide the IP address(es) you'll be connecting from so that your users can poke the smallest hole possible in their firewall. Opening up 27017 to the world ain't happening.

No TLS?

That's a very good feedback, thanks. I can't believe I forgot to provide that.

I added public IP to the page where you connect MongoDB, you can try again.

Kudos, Looks Amazing! I love it.

However our MongoDB environment is very secluded inside a VPC, K8S... If makes sense in the future pls consider a Docker version with some sort of registration key.

thanks rafaelturk! I'll look into it. If you want you can write me on twitter and I'll let you know if I add docker support.

Slick landing page, gets immediately to the point. Congrats on launching

You might want to consider adding an on-premise plan? I think most DBs are not publicly exposed on the internet?

Makes me think of "Enterprise plans" or "support" with "custom" pricing. Perhaps a third option in your pricing to target businesses in addition to developers? I imagine consulting is a way to gradually develop a better product. 29$ per month probably won't cover costs for long...

dmerks definitely agreed!

As developers can use Robo3T and write queries, the ideal customer in my mind is a smaller team/startup where developers setup metrics for marketing/product team as they need them but can't use MongoDB.

I'm not sure how to market this as developers need to do the setup, but product or marketing actually needs it.

Any advice on how to market?

Look at how similar products were sold...

OSS combined with cloud offerings seem to be an established approach

Thanks bauerd! I spent more time changing landing page more than I'd prefer to, but glad to hear it was worth the effort.

If you run MongoDB on server (example AWS or DigitalOcean) you can easily connect to it with MongoDB connection string.

It's advised to run on separate server as MongoDB takes up a considerable amount of RAM and it's never a good idea to run your database service on the same server instance as your production services. I run mine on AWS lightsail for $3,5/month for now.

Will look into adding on-premise, if this gets any traction.

I recently discussed MongoDB Compass and love it. I'm not technical and I find it very straightforward to find what I need. I'm looking forward to checking out their other products. Congrats on launching.

This is a very cool idea. I have often wondered if I could set up a private Jupyter notebook with Python to do something similar.

Interesting You might also want to look at the adding the new Core Web Vitals metrics that google have.

Nice I've been looking for this product. Bookmarked

Cheers! let me know if you need any help with the setup

good luck with callstop, the landing page looks neat.

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