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realtime event tracking

SHOW HN2011

151points
21comments
#57of 1,097 in 2011
Top 6%of 2011 by points

How HN took it

LovedMost comments that take a side are positive

12 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score +0.56.

Idea: 6 for, 0 againstDesign: 4 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Clean, beautiful UI and screenshots

    From 4 comments
    • How do you even go about making a UI like that? It's beautiful.
      Sargis on HN
    • Really clean design, love it. I can imagine this would be really cool with something like a chat application displaying messages/sec, users online, messages read, stuff like…
      ashamedlion on HN
    • I don't have much to say other than, as far as analytics and tracking goes, I'm going to play with a copy of this and see what I can do. The screenshots played quite a big part…
      FuzzyDunlop on HN
    • Your GUI (graphs, visualization) are amazing. What graph library did you use?
      nodesocket on HN
  • Useful idea for realtime analytics

    From 3 comments
    • This is really cool and I might have found a very good use for it just by looking at it. One thing though: IMHO it should also be possible to dispatch events over UDP as often…
      pilif on HN
    • Awesome! At Fileboard we use lots of third party tools (Mixpanel/KISSMetrics) to keep track of user metrics and stuff but there are always things where these tools just can't…
      waseemsadiq on HN
    • Beautiful! Precisely I was talking today with a friend about the need of a tool like this one.
      sdepablos on HN
  • Good showcase of Redis

    From 1 comment
    • Really clean design, love it. I can imagine this would be really cool with something like a chat application displaying messages/sec, users online, messages read, stuff like…
      ashamedlion on HN

Objections

  • MongoDB dependency adds another database to the stack

    From 1 comment
    • I only took a quick glance through the source, but what's with the MongoDB dependency? Is there a chance that what you're using it for could be replaced with Redis? I already use…
      chanks on HN
  • Highcharts may carry licensing costs

    From 2 comments
    • Looks good. I'm noticing it uses highcharts, so there may be licensing costs under some scenarios, correct?
      ericb on HN
    • Here are the prices, http://shop.highsoft.com/highcharts.html
      amalag on HN

Requests

  • UDP event dispatch so logging does not block the app

    From 1 comment
    • This is really cool and I might have found a very good use for it just by looking at it. One thing though: IMHO it should also be possible to dispatch events over UDP as often…
      pilif on HN
  • Namespacing of events

    From 1 comment
    • This is great. I see that namespacing of events is on the TODO list and this would allow us to provide analytics to our customers. Great work and very nice UI.
      cobrabyte on HN
  • Demo server

    From 1 comment

Questions

  • Can it track internal transactions across multiple servers?

    From 1 comment
    • Hmm was just thinking. Could I also use this for tracking internal transactions? I am still looking for a good solution to get insight into the statistical/live transactions that…
      waseemsadiq on HN
  • Which graph library is used?

    From 1 comment
    • Your GUI (graphs, visualization) are amazing. What graph library did you use?
      nodesocket on HN

Alternatives named

  • Mixpanel and KISSMetrics

    From 1 comment
    • Awesome! At Fileboard we use lots of third party tools (Mixpanel/KISSMetrics) to keep track of user metrics and stuff but there are always things where these tools just can't…
      waseemsadiq on HN
  • Google Analytics, NewRelic, Amon

    From 1 comment
    • I'm a product manager/developer and find myself wanting to know the real-time and historical usage of the products I manage so that I can proactively address issues and…
      crcastle on HN
  • Marketo

    From 1 comment
    • Let's build a product out of it. Marketo e.g. is a horrible piece of software + way to expensive for startups.
      rmoriz on HN

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