I think it was a blog post so a regular submission fits. I guess you could also do an "Ask HN". Ask people what their pain points are with alert systems. Here

I think it was a blog post so a regular submission fits. I guess you could also do an "Ask HN". Ask people what their pain points are with alert systems. Here I'll give you one, I want heartbeat alerts to be the default so if my server goes up in smokes I can trust that the alert is going to happen. In everything I want the alert to be "the absence of proof that everything is good" not "the presence of proof that something is bad".