Hi, With regard to what they're doing, they appear to be going after a niche. From their tweet stream: > @jkowall sure our sample is much smaller & based on conversations than > surveys, & our target is only online companies running Cloud services I can certainly see how they can add value into that market segment.
On 02/03/2014 07:19 AM, Matt Simmons wrote: > Interesting. My kneejerk response is to say that I don't think they > necessarily did all of the market research they could (or maybe, they > targetted a specific demographic, rather than "people who need IT > monitoring"). No mention of Spiceworks, Solar Winds, or What's Up > Gold? That seems odd to me. > > But as far as monitoring in the largely-open-source world goes, I > think they've correctly identified a lot of the reasons monitoring can > suck. Solving those problems is obviously hard - or someone would have > done it already. If they can make traction on even one of those > problems, that would be a win, though I have a personal theory that a > lot of the problems with monitoring stem from the fact that even we > don't *really* know what we want. > > Anyway, cool link! > > --Matt > > > On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Craig Cook <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Saw this on linkedin today... > > > http://blog.dataloop.io/2014/01/30/what-we-learnt-talking-to-60-companies-about-monitoring/ > > Sounds like this may be a company who is going to release a new > monitoring tool, they don't have anything yet though. > > Summary: various monitoring tools are in use, as the size of the > company grows you tend to have more in your suite. "building a > "kit car" of open-source monitoring infrastructure over several > weeks/months". None of the current tools are designed for the > new business models of "micro-service". > > Craig > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > > > > -- > LITTLE GIRL: But which cookie will you eat FIRST? > COOKIE MONSTER: Me think you have misconception of cookie-eating process. > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ -- Alan Robertson <[email protected]> - @OSSAlanR "Openness is the foundation and preservative of friendship... Let me claim from you at all times your undisguised opinions." - William Wilberforce
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