Show HN: Simple monitoring service
ping.gg
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BTW, +1 to HTTP support, a must-have.
Emails look like this: http://i.imgur.com/6kFqSnm.png
+1 noted!
and that's the _good_ part.
Maybe one day if there are a lot of users I'll implement paid accounts with more than 10 alerts and history dashboard. But most likely it will never gain enough traction for that, in which case it's no problem, since I have 6 tiny servers for different activities and this only uses 2 of the with minimal resources (it's just ping). It will just sit there alerting me and some others when something goes down.
It feels great to hack on something like this, and not worry about billing integration and supporting paid customers at first.
When I implement HTTP checks however, yes, the interval will have to be in the minutes.
This is simple yet helpful tool. Those who wish to stay away from nitty gritty of configuring complex apps to monitor their server this can be helpful.
I wrote a software like this, tried to ship it but I failed. Now it's open-source for everyone.
If you're interested, grab it.
Every 5 minutes is more than fine for a free service (and do future upgrades for every 1 min or constant monitoring).
In any case let the user select their interval.
Nice work btw!
As for my own side of the net, I asked someone at DO and I was told that it should not be a problem.
As a DevOps, I'd like to disagree with this. Pingdom previously was a joy to work with. Now that they're attempting to bring in PagerDuty-esq features (escalation policies instead of simple alerting), their UX leaves a bit to be desired. Also, I don't have high hopes after the Solarwinds acquisition.
Just a quick question: what's a 'target'? is it the equivalent of a pingdom 'check'? or is this an endpoint IP that we can run several checks over?
Some feedback after a quick glance on the homepage - it's nice and seems to provide the most important info, but I'd appreciate some more in-depth info on some areas (to answer my question about targets and possibly other questions about other stuff: what's a user, what's a dashboard etc)
$ curl ping.gg/monitoring@me.com/127.0.0.1 [ ok ] Ping alert created for host '127.0.0.1' and email 'monitoring@me.com'. Check your email to activate it.
There is an alert limit per host, so not everyone will be able to do the same. Congrats!
If that ever happens to you, you could: 1) pause the unwanted alerts, and remove some only when you need new ones. 2) if you panic, use the "unsubscribe" button that will block any future emails to your address.
Having such a low barrier of entry does not come without tradeoffs.