Falco
Infrastructure
web performance monitoring
SHOW HN2019
119points
12comments
#390of 2,195 in 2019
Top 18%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
0 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score -0.06.
Design: 0 for, 1 against
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Objections
Name clashes with Falco, a CNCF container security tool, and Falcon, a Python web library
From 2 comments
You might want to consider a name change. Falco is a container security tool that's in the CNCF: https://falco.org/
bovermyer on HNAlso Falcon which is off by 1 letter, is a WSGI web library for Python, they both have a similar logo. https://falcon.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
giancarlostoro on HN
Emoticon key at the bottom of the page is confusing
From 1 comment
Would you please remove the weird "emoticon key" thing at the bottom? You could almost certainly fit single-letter keywords (the values of the emoticons) in similar space,…
big_chungus on HN
Requests
Change the project name
From 4 comments
You might want to consider a name change. Falco is a container security tool that's in the CNCF: https://falco.org/
bovermyer on HNI thought this was it, as well. How about falk? Which is the norse name for falcon...
aliswe on HNSee if "Der Kommissar" is taken. :)
chiph on HNJust change it to Falko
auspex on HN
Questions
How does it compare to sitespeed.io?
From 2 comments
It seems similar to sitespeed.io (also open source), which logs performance metrics to Graphite and offers dashboarding via Grafana. Any major differences?
jameslk on HNFrom quick glance at falco documentation it appears to be much simpler to run and configure, on the other hand this can be also perceived as disadvantage because it offers less…
pxtail on HN
How does it compare to SpeedCurve?
From 1 comment
Curious to know how it compares to speedcurve (commercial SaaS). Other than being open source obviously :) No affiliation.
gingerlime on HN
Alternatives named
sitespeed.io
From 1 comment
It seems similar to sitespeed.io (also open source), which logs performance metrics to Graphite and offers dashboarding via Grafana. Any major differences?
jameslk on HN
SpeedCurve
From 1 comment
Curious to know how it compares to speedcurve (commercial SaaS). Other than being open source obviously :) No affiliation.
gingerlime on HN