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Hi everyone! I've been working in DevOps for quite a while now (> 1yr) and have always been a full stack developer, always involved in developing from end to e

Hi everyone! I've been working in DevOps for quite a while now (> 1yr) and have always been a full stack developer, always involved in developing from end to end. Due to my background, two years ago I started noticing I lacked a tool to monitor better what happened around my systems, which would push me notifications whenever I wanted, with whatever kind of content. After starting doing DevOps I realized i desperately needed such a kind of tool (I'm very well aware and use many monitoring products, but none of the kind I desired). Long story short, after 2 years of working weekends and early-raise mornings, I finally managed to put together Notify17 ( https://notify17.net https://notify17.net ), which is a tool I'm now using every single day to receive custom notifications (on iOS for now) from the most disparate sources (e.g. Graylog, Grafana, Jenkins). I'm looking for anyone who'd like to try it out with beta-tester benefits, which means just using the tool whenever you feel like and have an extended free tier (free tier for some good time, 3 months at least), with the purpose of seeing if it could fit into daily life as a companion tool, as well as to get some feedback about the overall functionalities. Edit: for who's interested as beta user, please just drop your email address at beta@notify17.net after you log in once into the dashboard ( https://dash.notify17.net https://dash.notify17.net ). Edit 2: for who's interested in knowing when the Android app will come out, I made a little mailing list you can subscribe to at the bottom of the homepage. Thanks a lot, Alberto

geocrasher 7y ago
Android. Subscribed. I have some servers that self monitor their mail queue with a simple bash watchdog script. Unfortunately the only notification method I have is... email. This will be a great way to get notifications for the servers. I can see some basic bash stuff coming that'll help me out without having to go full-out nagios for 4 small web server VPSs.
- cmaster11 7y ago
  Thanks for the interest XP Android will come! I tried to make Notify17 as usable as possible with the fewer amount of setup, so bash is a thing :) I'll let you know when Android is out!
- cuu508 7y ago
  For self-monitored systems that "chug along" in the background it's also nice to have a Dead Man's Switch style monitoring: set up the bash watchdog to send regular "I'm still alive" messages to an external service. The external service then notifies you whenever these heartbeat messages stop (bash script crashes, system runs out of disk or RAM, system loses network connection, VM gets accidentally terminated, etc. etc.). There's a number of monitoring services implementing this idea, and I'm also building one of them as an open source project – link in profile.
leksak 7y ago
Extended free-tier? But the site says there's a free forever plan?
- cmaster11 7y ago
  It's just for beta testers, meaning this will be temporary (3 months for now, with good chance it will be renewed or made permanently). The biggest challenge here is determining what a good number is for a free tier, to help small users properly and not impact on the business for bigger ones.
  - epaga 7y ago
    Ah yes, the classic temporary "free forever" plan. Edit: Sorry for the snark, I misunderstood you.
    - cmaster11 7y ago
      No, this free forever is meant to stay and get bigger in the future. This post is talking about a way much bigger plan for beta testers, which I want to keep going in the future too. There will always be a free forever basic plan, because I'm a developer myself, and I know how much I do hate services that ask you for the CC when creating an account :)

geocrasher 7y ago

Android. Subscribed. I have some servers that self monitor their mail queue with a simple bash watchdog script. Unfortunately the only notification method I have is... email. This will be a great way to get notifications for the servers. I can see some basic bash stuff coming that'll help me out without having to go full-out nagios for 4 small web server VPSs.

cmaster11 7y ago
Thanks for the interest XP Android will come! I tried to make Notify17 as usable as possible with the fewer amount of setup, so bash is a thing :) I'll let you know when Android is out!
cuu508 7y ago
For self-monitored systems that "chug along" in the background it's also nice to have a Dead Man's Switch style monitoring: set up the bash watchdog to send regular "I'm still alive" messages to an external service. The external service then notifies you whenever these heartbeat messages stop (bash script crashes, system runs out of disk or RAM, system loses network connection, VM gets accidentally terminated, etc. etc.). There's a number of monitoring services implementing this idea, and I'm also building one of them as an open source project – link in profile.

leksak 7y ago

Extended free-tier? But the site says there's a free forever plan?

cmaster11 7y ago
It's just for beta testers, meaning this will be temporary (3 months for now, with good chance it will be renewed or made permanently). The biggest challenge here is determining what a good number is for a free tier, to help small users properly and not impact on the business for bigger ones.
- epaga 7y ago
  Ah yes, the classic temporary "free forever" plan. Edit: Sorry for the snark, I misunderstood you.
  - cmaster11 7y ago
    No, this free forever is meant to stay and get bigger in the future. This post is talking about a way much bigger plan for beta testers, which I want to keep going in the future too. There will always be a free forever basic plan, because I'm a developer myself, and I know how much I do hate services that ask you for the CC when creating an account :)