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All my sites running through Cloudflare Tunnel are very very slow, but still just about online. As a side note, I'll take this opportunity call out the superb

by tailspin2019 5y ago

All my sites running through Cloudflare Tunnel are very very slow, but still just about online. As a side note, I'll take this opportunity call out the superb Checkmk monitoring system which alerted me to this. I don't see Checkmk mentioned on HN that often... https://checkmk.com https://checkmk.com EDIT: Seems to be fixed. Good job!

donmcronald 5y ago
I don’t think I’d use it even if they have a self-hosted version. The way they set their pricing based on “number of services” seems like the kind of tactic you use when you want to intentionally make things confusing so you can extract as much value as possible. What happened to honest businesses with fair, easy to understand pricing?
- tailspin2019 5y ago
  > What happened to honest businesses with fair, easy to understand pricing? Well in my case the pricing is very easy to understand. It's free! I only have < 25 hosts so I self-host the open source version on a $5/month DigitalOcean instance (ironically also reverse proxied through Cloudflare) So I certainly don't think that's exactly dishonest or unfair. It's been rock solid since I've used it. I don't know how many services you'd need to monitor but the starting prices for Standard and Enterprise seem pretty reasonable to me? It probably doesn't scale to a very large operation - but then it's not really "cloud first" monitoring akin to something like Prometheus, so perhaps their target audience isn't really likely to have a huge number of services to monitor.
marcolussetti 5y ago
CheckMK offers pretty solid monitoring our of the box, but I think it falls quite short of the mark when you want to add more than the default monitoring. It's still probably the easiest solution for monitoring a bunch of basic VMs, servers, etc. You can set it up and get a solid idea of how it works in only a few hours.

donmcronald 5y ago

I don’t think I’d use it even if they have a self-hosted version. The way they set their pricing based on “number of services” seems like the kind of tactic you use when you want to intentionally make things confusing so you can extract as much value as possible. What happened to honest businesses with fair, easy to understand pricing?

tailspin2019 5y ago
> What happened to honest businesses with fair, easy to understand pricing? Well in my case the pricing is very easy to understand. It's free! I only have < 25 hosts so I self-host the open source version on a $5/month DigitalOcean instance (ironically also reverse proxied through Cloudflare) So I certainly don't think that's exactly dishonest or unfair. It's been rock solid since I've used it. I don't know how many services you'd need to monitor but the starting prices for Standard and Enterprise seem pretty reasonable to me? It probably doesn't scale to a very large operation - but then it's not really "cloud first" monitoring akin to something like Prometheus, so perhaps their target audience isn't really likely to have a huge number of services to monitor.

marcolussetti 5y ago

CheckMK offers pretty solid monitoring our of the box, but I think it falls quite short of the mark when you want to add more than the default monitoring. It's still probably the easiest solution for monitoring a bunch of basic VMs, servers, etc. You can set it up and get a solid idea of how it works in only a few hours.