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Ask HN: Satisfaction with Applicaiton Monitoring

1 points by mey ↗ HN
I'm considering developing an application monitoring solution based on my experiences in a critical microservices infrastructure. Problem is, my anecdotal experience isn't everything. As a result, I would love to hear your thoughts on your current monitoring solution(s). What do you love, what do you hate?

Do you get woken up too much in the middle of the night? (Signal/Noise). Deployment success/issues? Cost? Do you care about egress of data to a 3rd party?

Thanks

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dozzie
Remember that your solution should be simple to deploy, so it can be useful in a small scale. And remember not to write it to run under Docker. If it is Docker-only, you cannot use it without it, and not everybody has or wants Docker. Keep in mind from the day one deploying the thing from a DEB or RPM package, and a one that can be easily built with no network access whatsoever.
mey
My current platform is Java/CockroachDB based. The entire solution is bundled into zip/tar file and booted off a single jar (including the DB). Yeah ease of deployment/operation has been a strong focus on my project so far. Packaging that into a DEB/RPM, AWS AMI or Docker Container is straightforward at the moment.

One of the things I've been wondering is, SaaS vs not. I've been focusing on a solution that can be deployed by a customer how ever they need (inside secure environments, bring your own infra), but that may be a bad assumption on my part.