GetServerStatus

Hi there,

In the past weeks I published in a some makers websites, such as ProductHunt, SideProjectors, AlternativeTo and HackerNews and although I was able to get some unpaid traffic, GetServerStatus has a couple more users but none of them activated our agent in its servers. I tried to reach a few users but got no replies.

One thing worth mention is the new users that signed up used the Google authentication.

In the mean time I've took the time to implement the Slack integration with our alarms API and write the integration documentation, as a lesson learned from the comments section in my first post here.

Right now I'm working on a Docker integration and it is probably going to be released in the end of this week, or maybe next... :D

Thanks

In the past week, since I launched my first post I fixed a few bugs, reported here by my fellow IHs :-).

I've also implemented a Google sign in button, in order to be more frictionless.

Also took the courage to create a ProductHunt (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/getserverstatus), feel free to comment there and spread the news.

For the following days I'm looking forward to implement a new functionality: integrate with Slack, and also setup a blog dedicated to inform our users.

Since 2013, I've been using software monitoring tools, both open source and proprietary.

Then I decided to build one mainly to scratch my own itches and make an easy to deploy and affordable one.

But, I struggled a little bit on how to organize the tasks in order to build this MVP.

First, I separated it in two projects, one for building the web application: frontend, backend and integrations needed, and the other for building the server agent.

Since I targeted Linux host monitoring, I broke the tasks into collecting metrics, creating background service and packaging it for the main distros.

For the web application, I designed the API to receive the payloads and moved to the creation of the dashboards to consume the servers statistics. After that I designed the alarm and webhook features, very important to add dynamism to the aplication.

Once I had it broken down this backlog in individual tasks, I tried to implement in a one per day basis. Since it is a side project of mine, I skipped a few days due to my daily obligations and tried to keep a positive balance at the weekends.

It's been a nice walk, learned a lot about the underlying OS metrics, payment systems and frontend (my weakest spot ever). Moving forward, I would like to implement a Windows agent (I worked with WMI in the past), and also docker integrations.

It is available for trial right now and feedback from this valuable IH community will be very appreciated.