Show HN: Anomalous – Real-time monitoring for servers, applications, and logs

    curl https://getanomalous.com/install.sh 2>/dev/null | sudo bash -s your_app_key your_api_key

Please do not use this kind of install solution! Piping arbitrary commands to an elevated shell is very bad. People who know better won't use it, and people who don't know better will have their "this is an acceptable method of install" bias confirmed, leaving them vulnerable to losing control over their machines.

Provide packages, please, not arbitrary tarballs from s3.

With regards to the MySQL plugin, I don't see any checks for active threads versus max threads, deadlocks warnings, InnoDB status warnings, replication status, long running queries, etc. For actual host monitoring, I don't see anything about load, disk usage, logged in users, memory usage, processor usage...

In short, I don't see anything particularly useful if you're actually monitoring a MySQL host.

Sorry if this seems abrupt, but if you want someone to pay for a Nagios replacement, it has to be an actual replacement for Nagios, which this does not actually appear to be.

For this sort of service an "About" or a "Company" section is a must. Few people will want to "install the server agent" with an always-on link to the mothership by some unknown publisher.

In fact, if I look at the page request log, I see several static resources being pulled down from yandex.ru. Needless to say this raises the question of company origins and whether their ignorance/negligence with sharing visitors stats may be indicative of how they handle the actual server health data. Then add in the lack of any sort of About section and it kind of starts to look odd.

(edit) I was going to say "just link to the Errplane site at the bottom", but then errplane.com has the exact same problem - no company info.

So I'm not in your target market, but just throwing this out there, I do a lot of client or client/server development (e.g. mobile). And so something that I really want is a logging service that creates unified client/server logs and treats both clients and servers as equal partners.

There are just so many server logging services (Loggly, Splunk, Logentries, etc.) and some of them even have some shitty client logging feature as an afterthought. But if you're serious about catching both client and server issues you either have to use separate dedicated client/server products, or roll your own server on FluentD or similar. Which, I'd like to point out, is terrible to set up on VPS or inside Docker because you have to tweak all sorts of Linux kernel parameters so that the network stack performs well[1].

So I mean maybe there is a great market for Yet Another Loggly Service out there, and if so, hats off to you. But I have spent a lot of time googling for a logging product I can use as a client/server person, and I've got nothing. So if you (or anyone on HN really) can easily enter that market, I will be your first customer. E-mail in profile.

[1] http://docs.fluentd.org/articles/before-install

    © 2013 Errplane Inc.

Can anyone clarify the relationship between this and Errplane - is this a rebranding, a new complementary product, a new iteration of the existing product, etc?

Looks nice, kinda like a combination of Papertrail and New Relic? Going to give a try.

Just a quick note, for what it's worth.

I work for an ISP/MSP. In addition to our servers and network, we manage those of many of our customers. We would never pay $10/month/server for this and neither would our customers. There was a time when we probably would have -- when we deployed on bare metal -- but with the rise of virtualization it's simply no longer possible. Whereas a customer might have had three (physical) servers a few years ago, they might have 15 or 20 now ("one task per (virtual) server") and that makes your product unaffordable.

I'd love to see a comparison of features between:

https://getanomalous.com http://www.graphdat.com http://www.datadoghq.com/ http://www.serverdensity.com/ http://newrelic.com/

There are lots of choices, and all of the above are high quality.

Can you explain how the set of possible anomalies are defined?

Does each user decide them for their own application, or does Anomalous try to figure out when something weird has happened?

Try to see a list of plugins, the docs tell me to click on the servers page, which tells me: You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.

I'm not signing up just to see that.

Getting 403's trying to install on new servers.

Edit: Looks like it's just from one of my servers. Also getting this error when installing on a DigitalOcean VPS:

runtime: panic before malloc heap initialized

fatal error: runtime: cannot allocate heap metadata

I don't like how it's POSTing to an non-SSL endpoint.

Is it safe to send API keys out in plaintext?

No Windows?

What sucks is that they are charging for it. When your talking about monitoring 100 servers, that's $1000/month. Currently I use Check_mk/OMD and it works beautifully. Oh, and its 100% free.