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Show HN: OpenStatus – Open-source monitoring with incident managements

171 points by tibozaurus 3y ago

Hey HN! We’re Max and Thibault building OpenStatus.dev an OpenSource synthetic monitoring platform with incident managements 1 min demo: https://twitter.com/mxkaske/status/1685666982786404352 https://twitter.com/mxkaske/status/1685666982786404352 We have just reached 2000 stars on GitHub https://github.com/openstatusHQ/openstatus https://github.com/openstatusHQ/openstatus We are really excited to hear your feedback/questions and connect further: our emails are max@openstatus.dev and thibault@openstatus.dev. Thank you!

jacooper 3y ago
Looks good, however i find the pricing a bit on the high side, especially compared to others like uptime robot and hettrix tools.
- tibozaurus 3y ago
  Yep but we are on the same pricing range as BetterStack or Checkly based on the number of request we make per month month
ushakov 3y ago
Why should I use this instead of 100s others paid and open-source alternatives?
- tibozaurus 3y ago
  Because using our hosted solution you don't have to care about the infra :)
  - ushakov 3y ago
    That’s a naive assumption. I can go with any of your competitors (Datadog, Checkly, BetterStack) and not care about the infra
    - tibozaurus 3y ago
      And mostly closed source :)
      - typosaur 3y ago
        Is being open-source the only differentiator you have? Only software devs care about this. Your competitors make millions of $ annually, without being open-source.
        robertlagrant 3y ago
        This seems a bit inappropriately toned. Plenty of businesses care about this, as it de-risks things if you know you can self-host if necessary.
        chrisandchris 3y ago
        Yes, sure. But the difficulty about monitoring is not the hosting per-se, but hosting in different datacenters throughout the world abd keeping all these services up. My monitoring should not show "just down" if users from location A can't reach it but everyone else can.
        ushakov 3y ago
        How many web-services out there are actually geographically distributed? Most companies just host everything in us-east1
        chrisandchris 3y ago
        Uptime monitoring services? I think most of those I tried (and I tried many in the past weeks).
        lucgagan 3y ago
        I never understood the "de-risk" things angle. Is the idea that you'd self host if the service went under?
  - remram 3y ago
    If I use the hosted version, I don't care that it's open source. If I run your open source software myself, I don't care that you have a hosted offering.
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typosaur 3y ago
Do you really need 4 SaaS provides to run this? From your docs: tinybird, turso, clerk, Resend
- tibozaurus 3y ago
  We use Tinybird to store the request data payload Turso for hosted SQLite Clerk for Auth Resend to send email We could have build everything by ourself or just just some providers to build faster when we launched we have chosen the latter
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- drorn 3y ago
  What are you specifically worried about?
jaxn 3y ago
I had just been looking at open source status pages this morning, and this was not in the list I was looking at. OP, you might want to d a PR here: https://github.com/ivbeg/awesome-status-pages https://github.com/ivbeg/awesome-status-pages Everyone else might be interested in that list of similar projects.
- tibozaurus 3y ago
  We are already in it :)
  - jaxn 3y ago
    Ah, under Services, not Open Source.
wicktron 3y ago
Speaking of status pages, are there any that exist that can aggregate the status pages of various SaaS apps? Meaning - Let's say I'm a company that subscribes to many SaaS apps (ie: Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, etc.), but want to create an internal dashboard to monitor those SaaS apps and alert my internal users. What options are available?
- vladvasiliu 3y ago
  I've built my own that can read statspage.io based status pages and export them as prometheus metrics. Grafana then shows me the general status. https://github.com/vladvasiliu/statuspage-exporter https://github.com/vladvasiliu/statuspage-exporter
- case 3y ago
  Have a look at https://metrist.io/ https://metrist.io/ (I’ve been meaning to try it out but haven’t yet.)
- dandrew5 3y ago
  Check out https://statusvista.com/ https://statusvista.com/ - it has lots of SaaS apps
- messutied 3y ago
  Founder of StatusPal here. Our status pages can do this :) We support configuring SaaS dependencies as part of your status page and alert your team members: https://www.statuspal.io/features/status-page https://www.statuspal.io/features/status-page Alternatively, you can try our free Slack app, where you can do similar directly in Slack: https://statuspal.io/status-center/slack/ https://statuspal.io/status-center/slack/
oooyay 3y ago
First, congrats on the launch! Why did you end up going with a SaaS model? 30 Euros or $31.50 USD is pretty expensive for something like a status site. You'd have a lot less to manage day to day and be able to focus more on innovating the product if you just sold the software, imo. Why the focus on synthetic monitoring? As a SRE, I actively eschew synthetic monitoring. It's highly error prone and doesn't actually indicate regional availability. I'd like a status site that I could push a certain internally derived SLA for a given service to and the status site reflects the average over time of that windowed SLA. SLA's are intended to incur customer refunds when they're violated if they're meaningful. If your synthetic monitoring shows an SLA of 4 nines but it was actually closer to 4.8 or 4.9 then you could be on the hook for causing your customers a good bit of legal pain. Just something to think about in this space. Other status sites don't build external SLAs off of internal metrics because the process of deriving internal metrics that align with external outcomes is sufficiently difficult. Instead, they calculate an SLA based off of posted statuses over a period of time eg: Degraded, Down, Up. Supporting both modes could be a boon to potential customers. Overall looks like a great start; good luck on your venture!
- tibozaurus 3y ago
  Thanks again ! Tbh we haven't thought of the sla violation For region availability we are planing to add multi region check per Monitor At the moment you can only set one region per monitor
- 101008 3y ago
  I don't know much about statuses pages, I just check them to see if the services I use are having an issue. It's the first time I read about "synthetic monitoring", and from a quick Google search, it seems to referring to "automatic monitoring". A bsic versino of this would be to do a ping to see if the server is responding, or a HTTP request to see if it's returning a 200 status code. However, if I read your comment carefully, you are suggesting to provide an alternative where the company (owner) could decide manually when a system is down or up. If that's the case, wouldn't the status page be just a page template where someone logs into a panel and toggle a button to say "down" or "up" and post updates? If there is no automatic monitoring, the service would look more like a blog/tumblr/twitter than anything else. Or probably I am missing something because of my lack of experience and I am curious, I'd like to know!
octagons 3y ago
I'd recommend working on editing any public-facing copy and unifying your message. I'm assuming I know what this tool does, but these examples do not validate that assumption. Is it a platform or a service? In 3 different locations, OpenStatus is listed as the "open source monitoring XYZ with...": "on-call managements", "Incident Management", and "beautiful status page". Examples copied from the landing page and front page of the GH repo. > Open-source monitoring service > OpenStatus is an open source monitoring services with on-call managements. > The Open-Source Synthetic Monitoring Platform with Incident Management > OpenStatus is open-source synthetic monitoring platform with beautiful status page. > The open-source monitoring platform
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- tibozaurus 3y ago
  Thank for the feedback Tbh we have struggled to find the perfect messaging in the last month But we will take it into account thanks again
snowstormsun 3y ago
10 minute intervals and only 5 monitors is very limited for the hobby plan. Why shouldn't I use UptimeRobot (or any other alternative) instead which has 5 minute intervals and also only one status page for free?
- iimblack 3y ago
  For me uptime robot has been very buggy and unreliable so I’m looking for alternatives. Parts of the dashboard break often. Maintenance windows not respected. Alerts just not working at all when a real outage happens.
  - compumike 3y ago
    If you're looking for UptimeRobot alternatives, would you be open to taking a look at what we've been building at Heii On-Call https://heiioncall.com/ https://heiioncall.com/ ? Curious to hear if that covers what you need or if there are any critical features we're missing.
kc10 3y ago
Congrats on the launch!! I am previously the founder of a synthetic monitoring startup, devraven.io. Just sharing my experience - monitoring is brutally competitive. From my conversations most large enterprises have very little synthetic monitoring, they use DDOG or other APM tools and do not want to try any new tools for few thousand dollar savings. And in a lot of cases they are comfortable with their custom test frameworks that use Selenium. Some are even worried that setting up synthetic monitoring will bring down their environment or trash their database with junk data ::sigh:: Most smaller companies we spoke to are not mature enough to have monitoring and did not have resources who can setup monitoring. They used to ask us for help to build tests for them. Asks for discounts on $29.99/mo price point were not uncommon. After few months of operating the product, we did find few angels who were interested in investing in us (not the product). But in the end, we did not feel that we can make good use of investor money and provide a decent return to them, so we ended up backing out of the investment and chose to shutdown the product.
jjtang1 3y ago
Congrats on the launch, the early traction is great to see. Would be happy to jam more on my experiences building Rootly.com, an incident management platform on Slack used by Canva, Cockroach Labs, and others! :) -JJ
tiberriver256 3y ago
The site looks visually very good. Lots of typos in your English translations though.
nodesocket 3y ago
I run Uptime Kuma[1] in my home to monitor all my homelab and Kubernetes services. It's really awesome. How does OpenStatus compare to it? [1] https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
mrfynd 3y ago
congrats on the launch! product looks cool. just one thing though: the dots make it difficult to focus on the design or read text. or is it just me?
bluehatbrit 3y ago
Congrats on your launch! It seems well designed and well thought though from a UX perspective. The landing page is also very simple and easy to wrap my head around. I'd be tempted to use this for a small side project, but I'm not sure it has a huge draw when getting to the paid tiers. There are plenty of competitors out there and this doesn't seem to have a niche that this serves any better than them. Open source is great but I'm not sure it's a strong differentiator in this case. I'd probably compare this to something like Plausible Analytics. They lean heavily into privacy-friendly, and easy GDPR/CCPA/PECR compliance. It being open source is what gives you confidence to use it, knowing that if the small business did disappear you can continue using the product on your own infra for as long as you want. OpenStatus seems to be trying to lean on the fact it's open source, but if their SaaS business failed it would be trivial to move to a competitor without much consideration. It's not delivering anything different, and it's not baking itself into my app or infrastructure, so moving is the case of setting up with a competitor and moving a subdomain. I really hope you're able to make it work and get profitable though. Having high quality open source options is really fantastic, I just think it's going to take more to cement a place in the market.
jmartens 3y ago
Pings don’t seem like enough info
- sass_is_retro 3y ago
  And yet we all get by just fine with pings!
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impulser_ 3y ago
Why is it normal in the Typescript community to rely on a lot of other SaaS providers to build a simple application? This project relies on 4 different paid services. Why? Why do you need a SaaS to handle your auth, mailing, database, and logging? Aren't there libraries for these things in Typescript? Why pay for them?
- cchance 3y ago
  Not the dev but i know for me it mostly comes down to not reinventing the wheel, and it allows for a lot easier ability to scale while also allowing for free operation as well for indies. Turso: Has insanely large free level and means no need to run your own DB(though you can run your own sqlite locally), their free tier even just got drastically expanded. Clerk: 5000 free users, not having to deal with your own authentication. Resend: Avoids dealing and managing mail, and dealing with spam filtering etc, i dont know if they allow just using an internal smtp, but seems ok given 3,000 mails per month. Tinybird, i don't know enough about but also has a free plan... So mostly i'd imagine most of these aren't about paying for third party platforms, its about offloading tasks you don't want to worry about implementing yourself, and that also give you the ability to scale outside of the small initial deployment for cost.
  - impulser_ 3y ago
    You don't have to reinvent the wheel. You just have to use a library instead of using a library and paying someone lol. There are hundreds of auth libraries out there that you can use. Not one of them charges you per user lol. We been doing this for decades. Why are we now paying companies to do it for us? This can be said about mailing, logging, and databases. I spent decades building web application not once was it hard to implement these features using libraries. In fact it easier than ever with the tooling with have today. No wonder 99% of starts up are losing money and going out of business. They are giving all there money away to the few that survive lol. I guess the typescript people don't appreciate frameworks like Rails, Django, and Phoenix that implement all these features for you lol.
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ilrwbwrkhv 3y ago
Maybe it's just me, but seeing pricing on the first page of an open source project makes me puke a little in my mouth. I know that technically the code is open source and people need to eat and all that, yet, I can't help it but feel a little bit scammed.
throwawake 3y ago
Not to downplay the product which is awesome, but how common it is for a single logo to be used by multiple commericial entities ? For example, this one seems to be from https://creativemarket.com/Mujigraphic/27123272-Logo-S-design-Initial-template https://creativemarket.com/Mujigraphic/27123272-Logo-S-desig...
- tibozaurus 3y ago
  What i dont get is why creative market make you pay for the logo when it was originally taken from the logo book http://www.logobook.com/logo/sparkasse-berlin/ http://www.logobook.com/logo/sparkasse-berlin/ the logobook is the goldmine for any logo :)
  - nprateem 3y ago
    Complete with the least appropriate logo ever: http://www.logobook.com/logo/canadian-association-for-retarded-children/ http://www.logobook.com/logo/canadian-association-for-retard...
CAP_NET_ADMIN 3y ago
In what ways is it better than Uptime Kuma which doesn't require a bunch of SaaS spaghetti to run and has much broader community support. [1] https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
- gettodachoppa 3y ago
  As a power user (not professional sysadmin) I love Uptime Kuma. A simple docker image that uses 110MB RAM and gave me all the monitoring I need for my home lab and my cloud VPS. Very easy to use too, lovely UI.
  - tibozaurus 3y ago
    Uptime kuma is great but for some orgs and users they don't want to have an other stacks to manage
todotask 3y ago
I see that this was written with Hono web framework, one of an interesting idea for OpenStatus.
deadlast2 3y ago
On your homepage https://www.openstatus.dev/ https://www.openstatus.dev/ the Star on Github button shows 0. I think it should show the actual count 2.3k.
designdev1996 3y ago
congrats on the launch!! Something i've been looking for, for a while now
tnolet 3y ago
Checkly founder / CTO here. Got a ping we got mentioned. Good luck to the OP! Checkly started bootstrapped (not open source) and it’s indeed a tough market. Very exciting also, but not super easy to get a foothold. Anyway! Good luck again and will be following your efforts.
donavanm 3y ago
Hey Max & Thibault, interesting approach. It seems like you're going for after a specific feature and (unintentionally?) pulling in some product areas that are very hard businesses. I believe youre reusing existing saas and framework tools to make your effort more effective, but may be asking your customers to adopt new dependencies as well. I think your core offering is around status tracking and stakeholder notification. However you're also pulling in Monitoring/APM by running your own status checks, for example. I would expect any paying customer to already have monitoring and alerting of some type; New Relic, DataDog, Amazon Cloudwatch Synthetics, etc. Wouldnt your customers want to use their own existing metrics for SLOs, or existing alarms & alerts for incident detection? Similarly it seems like youre implementing alerting/engagement as well. Are you asking your customers to reimplement their PagerDuty/OpsGenie/VictorOps configuration? There's a lot of organisational inertia around business processes that define alerting & engagement. I haven't looked at userbase numbers in a long time but I would guess the vast majority of your target customers are using one of those three already. If I was to guess initial adoption would be aided by "ease of use", particularly integration with the customers existing tools & process. Then differentiation and value is based on what those existing monitoring/alerting tools cant do, eg alternative data sources (APM vs RUM), automated/predefined response, approval processes, customized visibility & communication per client, etc. disclosure: Principal at AWS. Comments are my own personal opinion, based on public information only.

171 points by tibozaurus 3y ago

jacooper 3y ago

Looks good, however i find the pricing a bit on the high side, especially compared to others like uptime robot and hettrix tools.

tibozaurus 3y ago
Yep but we are on the same pricing range as BetterStack or Checkly based on the number of request we make per month month

ushakov 3y ago

Why should I use this instead of 100s others paid and open-source alternatives?

tibozaurus 3y ago
Because using our hosted solution you don't have to care about the infra :)
- ushakov 3y ago
  That’s a naive assumption. I can go with any of your competitors (Datadog, Checkly, BetterStack) and not care about the infra
  - tibozaurus 3y ago
    And mostly closed source :)
    - typosaur 3y ago
      Is being open-source the only differentiator you have? Only software devs care about this. Your competitors make millions of $ annually, without being open-source.
      - robertlagrant 3y ago
        This seems a bit inappropriately toned. Plenty of businesses care about this, as it de-risks things if you know you can self-host if necessary.
        chrisandchris 3y ago
        Yes, sure. But the difficulty about monitoring is not the hosting per-se, but hosting in different datacenters throughout the world abd keeping all these services up. My monitoring should not show "just down" if users from location A can't reach it but everyone else can.
        ushakov 3y ago
        How many web-services out there are actually geographically distributed? Most companies just host everything in us-east1
        chrisandchris 3y ago
        Uptime monitoring services? I think most of those I tried (and I tried many in the past weeks).
        lucgagan 3y ago
        I never understood the "de-risk" things angle. Is the idea that you'd self host if the service went under?
- remram 3y ago
  If I use the hosted version, I don't care that it's open source. If I run your open source software myself, I don't care that you have a hosted offering.
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typosaur 3y ago

Do you really need 4 SaaS provides to run this? From your docs: tinybird, turso, clerk, Resend

tibozaurus 3y ago
We use Tinybird to store the request data payload Turso for hosted SQLite Clerk for Auth Resend to send email We could have build everything by ourself or just just some providers to build faster when we launched we have chosen the latter
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drorn 3y ago
What are you specifically worried about?

jaxn 3y ago

I had just been looking at open source status pages this morning, and this was not in the list I was looking at. OP, you might want to d a PR here: https://github.com/ivbeg/awesome-status-pages https://github.com/ivbeg/awesome-status-pages Everyone else might be interested in that list of similar projects.

tibozaurus 3y ago
We are already in it :)
- jaxn 3y ago
  Ah, under Services, not Open Source.

wicktron 3y ago

Speaking of status pages, are there any that exist that can aggregate the status pages of various SaaS apps? Meaning - Let's say I'm a company that subscribes to many SaaS apps (ie: Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, etc.), but want to create an internal dashboard to monitor those SaaS apps and alert my internal users. What options are available?

vladvasiliu 3y ago
I've built my own that can read statspage.io based status pages and export them as prometheus metrics. Grafana then shows me the general status. https://github.com/vladvasiliu/statuspage-exporter https://github.com/vladvasiliu/statuspage-exporter
case 3y ago
Have a look at https://metrist.io/ https://metrist.io/ (I’ve been meaning to try it out but haven’t yet.)
dandrew5 3y ago
Check out https://statusvista.com/ https://statusvista.com/ - it has lots of SaaS apps
messutied 3y ago
Founder of StatusPal here. Our status pages can do this :) We support configuring SaaS dependencies as part of your status page and alert your team members: https://www.statuspal.io/features/status-page https://www.statuspal.io/features/status-page Alternatively, you can try our free Slack app, where you can do similar directly in Slack: https://statuspal.io/status-center/slack/ https://statuspal.io/status-center/slack/

oooyay 3y ago

First, congrats on the launch! Why did you end up going with a SaaS model? 30 Euros or $31.50 USD is pretty expensive for something like a status site. You'd have a lot less to manage day to day and be able to focus more on innovating the product if you just sold the software, imo. Why the focus on synthetic monitoring? As a SRE, I actively eschew synthetic monitoring. It's highly error prone and doesn't actually indicate regional availability. I'd like a status site that I could push a certain internally derived SLA for a given service to and the status site reflects the average over time of that windowed SLA. SLA's are intended to incur customer refunds when they're violated if they're meaningful. If your synthetic monitoring shows an SLA of 4 nines but it was actually closer to 4.8 or 4.9 then you could be on the hook for causing your customers a good bit of legal pain. Just something to think about in this space. Other status sites don't build external SLAs off of internal metrics because the process of deriving internal metrics that align with external outcomes is sufficiently difficult. Instead, they calculate an SLA based off of posted statuses over a period of time eg: Degraded, Down, Up. Supporting both modes could be a boon to potential customers. Overall looks like a great start; good luck on your venture!

tibozaurus 3y ago
Thanks again ! Tbh we haven't thought of the sla violation For region availability we are planing to add multi region check per Monitor At the moment you can only set one region per monitor
101008 3y ago
I don't know much about statuses pages, I just check them to see if the services I use are having an issue. It's the first time I read about "synthetic monitoring", and from a quick Google search, it seems to referring to "automatic monitoring". A bsic versino of this would be to do a ping to see if the server is responding, or a HTTP request to see if it's returning a 200 status code. However, if I read your comment carefully, you are suggesting to provide an alternative where the company (owner) could decide manually when a system is down or up. If that's the case, wouldn't the status page be just a page template where someone logs into a panel and toggle a button to say "down" or "up" and post updates? If there is no automatic monitoring, the service would look more like a blog/tumblr/twitter than anything else. Or probably I am missing something because of my lack of experience and I am curious, I'd like to know!

octagons 3y ago

I'd recommend working on editing any public-facing copy and unifying your message. I'm assuming I know what this tool does, but these examples do not validate that assumption. Is it a platform or a service? In 3 different locations, OpenStatus is listed as the "open source monitoring XYZ with...": "on-call managements", "Incident Management", and "beautiful status page". Examples copied from the landing page and front page of the GH repo. > Open-source monitoring service > OpenStatus is an open source monitoring services with on-call managements. > The Open-Source Synthetic Monitoring Platform with Incident Management > OpenStatus is open-source synthetic monitoring platform with beautiful status page. > The open-source monitoring platform

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tibozaurus 3y ago
Thank for the feedback Tbh we have struggled to find the perfect messaging in the last month But we will take it into account thanks again

snowstormsun 3y ago

10 minute intervals and only 5 monitors is very limited for the hobby plan. Why shouldn't I use UptimeRobot (or any other alternative) instead which has 5 minute intervals and also only one status page for free?

iimblack 3y ago
For me uptime robot has been very buggy and unreliable so I’m looking for alternatives. Parts of the dashboard break often. Maintenance windows not respected. Alerts just not working at all when a real outage happens.
- compumike 3y ago
  If you're looking for UptimeRobot alternatives, would you be open to taking a look at what we've been building at Heii On-Call https://heiioncall.com/ https://heiioncall.com/ ? Curious to hear if that covers what you need or if there are any critical features we're missing.

kc10 3y ago

Congrats on the launch!! I am previously the founder of a synthetic monitoring startup, devraven.io. Just sharing my experience - monitoring is brutally competitive. From my conversations most large enterprises have very little synthetic monitoring, they use DDOG or other APM tools and do not want to try any new tools for few thousand dollar savings. And in a lot of cases they are comfortable with their custom test frameworks that use Selenium. Some are even worried that setting up synthetic monitoring will bring down their environment or trash their database with junk data ::sigh:: Most smaller companies we spoke to are not mature enough to have monitoring and did not have resources who can setup monitoring. They used to ask us for help to build tests for them. Asks for discounts on $29.99/mo price point were not uncommon. After few months of operating the product, we did find few angels who were interested in investing in us (not the product). But in the end, we did not feel that we can make good use of investor money and provide a decent return to them, so we ended up backing out of the investment and chose to shutdown the product.

jjtang1 3y ago

Congrats on the launch, the early traction is great to see. Would be happy to jam more on my experiences building Rootly.com, an incident management platform on Slack used by Canva, Cockroach Labs, and others! :) -JJ

tiberriver256 3y ago

The site looks visually very good. Lots of typos in your English translations though.

nodesocket 3y ago

I run Uptime Kuma[1] in my home to monitor all my homelab and Kubernetes services. It's really awesome. How does OpenStatus compare to it? [1] https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma

mrfynd 3y ago

congrats on the launch! product looks cool. just one thing though: the dots make it difficult to focus on the design or read text. or is it just me?

bluehatbrit 3y ago

Congrats on your launch! It seems well designed and well thought though from a UX perspective. The landing page is also very simple and easy to wrap my head around. I'd be tempted to use this for a small side project, but I'm not sure it has a huge draw when getting to the paid tiers. There are plenty of competitors out there and this doesn't seem to have a niche that this serves any better than them. Open source is great but I'm not sure it's a strong differentiator in this case. I'd probably compare this to something like Plausible Analytics. They lean heavily into privacy-friendly, and easy GDPR/CCPA/PECR compliance. It being open source is what gives you confidence to use it, knowing that if the small business did disappear you can continue using the product on your own infra for as long as you want. OpenStatus seems to be trying to lean on the fact it's open source, but if their SaaS business failed it would be trivial to move to a competitor without much consideration. It's not delivering anything different, and it's not baking itself into my app or infrastructure, so moving is the case of setting up with a competitor and moving a subdomain. I really hope you're able to make it work and get profitable though. Having high quality open source options is really fantastic, I just think it's going to take more to cement a place in the market.

jmartens 3y ago

Pings don’t seem like enough info

sass_is_retro 3y ago
And yet we all get by just fine with pings!
- deleted 3y ago
  [deleted]

impulser_ 3y ago

Why is it normal in the Typescript community to rely on a lot of other SaaS providers to build a simple application? This project relies on 4 different paid services. Why? Why do you need a SaaS to handle your auth, mailing, database, and logging? Aren't there libraries for these things in Typescript? Why pay for them?

cchance 3y ago
Not the dev but i know for me it mostly comes down to not reinventing the wheel, and it allows for a lot easier ability to scale while also allowing for free operation as well for indies. Turso: Has insanely large free level and means no need to run your own DB(though you can run your own sqlite locally), their free tier even just got drastically expanded. Clerk: 5000 free users, not having to deal with your own authentication. Resend: Avoids dealing and managing mail, and dealing with spam filtering etc, i dont know if they allow just using an internal smtp, but seems ok given 3,000 mails per month. Tinybird, i don't know enough about but also has a free plan... So mostly i'd imagine most of these aren't about paying for third party platforms, its about offloading tasks you don't want to worry about implementing yourself, and that also give you the ability to scale outside of the small initial deployment for cost.
- impulser_ 3y ago
  You don't have to reinvent the wheel. You just have to use a library instead of using a library and paying someone lol. There are hundreds of auth libraries out there that you can use. Not one of them charges you per user lol. We been doing this for decades. Why are we now paying companies to do it for us? This can be said about mailing, logging, and databases. I spent decades building web application not once was it hard to implement these features using libraries. In fact it easier than ever with the tooling with have today. No wonder 99% of starts up are losing money and going out of business. They are giving all there money away to the few that survive lol. I guess the typescript people don't appreciate frameworks like Rails, Django, and Phoenix that implement all these features for you lol.
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ilrwbwrkhv 3y ago

Maybe it's just me, but seeing pricing on the first page of an open source project makes me puke a little in my mouth. I know that technically the code is open source and people need to eat and all that, yet, I can't help it but feel a little bit scammed.

throwawake 3y ago

Not to downplay the product which is awesome, but how common it is for a single logo to be used by multiple commericial entities ? For example, this one seems to be from https://creativemarket.com/Mujigraphic/27123272-Logo-S-design-Initial-template https://creativemarket.com/Mujigraphic/27123272-Logo-S-desig...

tibozaurus 3y ago
What i dont get is why creative market make you pay for the logo when it was originally taken from the logo book http://www.logobook.com/logo/sparkasse-berlin/ http://www.logobook.com/logo/sparkasse-berlin/ the logobook is the goldmine for any logo :)
- nprateem 3y ago
  Complete with the least appropriate logo ever: http://www.logobook.com/logo/canadian-association-for-retarded-children/ http://www.logobook.com/logo/canadian-association-for-retard...

CAP_NET_ADMIN 3y ago

In what ways is it better than Uptime Kuma which doesn't require a bunch of SaaS spaghetti to run and has much broader community support. [1] https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma

gettodachoppa 3y ago
As a power user (not professional sysadmin) I love Uptime Kuma. A simple docker image that uses 110MB RAM and gave me all the monitoring I need for my home lab and my cloud VPS. Very easy to use too, lovely UI.
- tibozaurus 3y ago
  Uptime kuma is great but for some orgs and users they don't want to have an other stacks to manage

todotask 3y ago

I see that this was written with Hono web framework, one of an interesting idea for OpenStatus.

deadlast2 3y ago

On your homepage https://www.openstatus.dev/ https://www.openstatus.dev/ the Star on Github button shows 0. I think it should show the actual count 2.3k.

designdev1996 3y ago

congrats on the launch!! Something i've been looking for, for a while now

tnolet 3y ago

Checkly founder / CTO here. Got a ping we got mentioned. Good luck to the OP! Checkly started bootstrapped (not open source) and it’s indeed a tough market. Very exciting also, but not super easy to get a foothold. Anyway! Good luck again and will be following your efforts.

donavanm 3y ago

Hey Max & Thibault, interesting approach. It seems like you're going for after a specific feature and (unintentionally?) pulling in some product areas that are very hard businesses. I believe youre reusing existing saas and framework tools to make your effort more effective, but may be asking your customers to adopt new dependencies as well. I think your core offering is around status tracking and stakeholder notification. However you're also pulling in Monitoring/APM by running your own status checks, for example. I would expect any paying customer to already have monitoring and alerting of some type; New Relic, DataDog, Amazon Cloudwatch Synthetics, etc. Wouldnt your customers want to use their own existing metrics for SLOs, or existing alarms & alerts for incident detection? Similarly it seems like youre implementing alerting/engagement as well. Are you asking your customers to reimplement their PagerDuty/OpsGenie/VictorOps configuration? There's a lot of organisational inertia around business processes that define alerting & engagement. I haven't looked at userbase numbers in a long time but I would guess the vast majority of your target customers are using one of those three already. If I was to guess initial adoption would be aided by "ease of use", particularly integration with the customers existing tools & process. Then differentiation and value is based on what those existing monitoring/alerting tools cant do, eg alternative data sources (APM vs RUM), automated/predefined response, approval processes, customized visibility & communication per client, etc. disclosure: Principal at AWS. Comments are my own personal opinion, based on public information only.