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Hey HN! My friend augustflanagan and I both had a need for some really simple cron monitoring. A way to monitor our critical jobs without configuring Nagios fir
by encoderer 12y ago
Hey HN! My friend augustflanagan and I both had a need for some really simple cron monitoring. A way to monitor our critical jobs without configuring Nagios first. We wanted a simple SAAS monitoring solution that we could trust to alert us right away when a job isn't running on schedule.
We mentioned this to a couple of friends who said they needed the same simple monitoring. Having people tell you they need something is a great motivator, so we built cronitor in a couple of weekends and are putting it out there. We'd love feedback and suggestions on how to make it better. Thanks!
- js2 12y agoYou were not aware of https://deadmanssnitch.com https://deadmanssnitch.com ?
- thibaut_barrere 12y agoThere are others, like Proby (which I mentioned here [1]), yet I find that having more competitors in that space would be helpful, because not everyone has exactly the same needs. Congrats for shipping! [1] https://www.wisecashhq.com/blog/writing-reliable-cron-jobs https://www.wisecashhq.com/blog/writing-reliable-cron-jobs
- encoderer 12y agoWe gave it a shot but there were a couple things we needed that we couldn't get from DMS. Specifically, I have hourly jobs that started taking longer than an hour to run. I needed timing-based alerts for that. We also needed to be alerted in real time in a way DMS doesn't provide.
- barce 12y agoCool, what did you guys code this in? I'm working on a weekend project for an EventBrite competitor focused on a really niche group of users.
- augustflanagan 12y agoThanks! It's a django app that uses Mandrill for sending email, and Twilio for sending sms alerts.