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I spent enough time ~15 years back to find an external monitoring service that did not run on AWS and looked like a sustainable business instead of a VC fueled
by bigiain 1y ago
I spent enough time ~15 years back to find an external monitoring service that did not run on AWS and looked like a sustainable business instead of a VC fueled acquisition target - for our belts-n-braces secondary monitoring tool since it's not smart to trust CloudWatch to be able to send notifications when it's AWS's shit that's down.
Sadly while I still use that tool a couple of jobs/companies later - I no longer recommend it because it migrated to AWS a few years back.
(For now, my out-of-AWS monitoring tool is a bunch of cron jobs running on a collections of various inexpensive vpses and my and other dev's home machines.)
- 6031769 1y agoNagios is still a thing and you can host it wherever you like.
- bigiain 1y agoInterestingly, the reason I originally looked for and started using it was an unapproved "shadow IT" response to an in-house Nagios setup that was configured and managed so badly it had _way_ more downtime than any of the services I'd get shouted about at if customers noticed them down before we did... (No disrespect to Nagios, I'm sure a competently managed installation is capable of being way better than what I had to put up with.)