Monitoror
Infrastructure
monitoring dashboard
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
7 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 6 critical, out of 30 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Idea: 3 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Nice design
From 1 comment
Nice design! Looks to be targeted at developers, but it could be good for product managers too. Some tile ideas; Issue counts, PR counts, vanity metrics... plenty of room for…
gitgud on HN
Handy tool for monitoring
From 1 comment
Nice handy tool, one grip is the scaling with different sizes, the text does scale, but not the box modules.. Small thing but really nice tool
bilekas on HN
Objections
Wallboards are an anti-pattern; alerts should be automated
From 2 comments
I know people like wallboards and monitors but we found them anti-pattern. If you find yourself looking at a wallboard/dashboard, it should already be an automated alert.
CSDude on HNYes, which is why you shouldn't use wall boards for alerting, only for visualization.…
geofft on HN
Mobile layout does not scale well
From 1 comment
Cool item but didn’t scale well for mobile (iOS iPhone XS Plus)
kkirsche on HN
Port setting does not work as documented
From 1 comment
It looks like it doesn't actually support changing the port currently, despite the documentation saying it is possible. I already use port 8080 so kind of stuck until I can use a…
Jeremy1026 on HN
Requests
Add dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 checks
From 1 comment
I've been looking at different status board tools and the one thing I've always found missing is dual-stack IPv4+IPv6 tests. It'd be nice to be able to see that both protocols to…
djsumdog on HN
Add calendar, weather and command output tiles
From 1 comment
Could you grab and parse content with this? I'm not really using CI stuff, but showing events (calendar), grabbing weather data or output from other simple commands (health…
BlackLotus89 on HN
Questions
Why use this instead of Grafana
From 1 comment
Care to explain why one would use this over something much more capable like Grafana? [1] [1] https://github.com/grafana/grafana
soygul on HN
Alternatives named
Grafana
From 1 comment
Care to explain why one would use this over something much more capable like Grafana? [1] [1] https://github.com/grafana/grafana
soygul on HN
Status Board (Panic iOS app)
From 1 comment
Panic used to have an iOS app that did this. It was called Status Board, and was magnificent. You could put it on an old iPad on an easel on your desk and watch everything from…
reaperducer on HN
Dashing
From 1 comment
Reminds me of http://dashing.io/
thehodge on HN
Geckoboard
From 1 comment
Is this like an open-source Geckoboard?
blowski on HN
wtfutil
From 1 comment
For a terminal version of this, I really like https://wtfutil.com/ Create a config file, and you get something similar.
CubsFan1060 on HN