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Re:Show HN: Live visualization of Kafka streams by user5994461 on Monday September 26, 2016 @05:45PM (#12585869)
Coincidence: I was checking out your product the other day and it seemed quite interesting.

There was just one huge issue: Where is the price tag?

Re:Show HN: Live visualization of Kafka streams by yairwein on Monday September 26, 2016 @06:22PM (#12586111)
Alooma pricing varies greatly. Our customers are paying anywhere between $1000 and $15000 per month. Because the variance is so big, we prefer to have a conversation before providing a quote. There is a two weeks free trial though, to test things out.
Re:Show HN: Live visualization of Kafka streams by arcticfox on Monday September 26, 2016 @11:17PM (#12587220)
It would be great if you have this on the pricing page. It's really frustrating for there to be nothing there.

My startup has a ~$50 / mo Kafka ETL system hooked up to a few things and it seemed like a good candidate to move to hosted. But if your small clients are $1000 / mo... Noooope, not our scale! Good thing I saw this post or I might have spent a lot of time trying it out.

Re:Show HN: Live visualization of Kafka streams by yairwein on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @12:34AM (#12587449)
We could tell you that over a quick email / phone conversation as well before spending any time.

At small scale Alooma probably is an overkill.

Here is a short write-up from one of our co-founders for when it starts to break: https://www.alooma.com/blog/building-a-professional-grade-da...

Re:Show HN: Live visualization of Kafka streams by user5994461 on Monday September 26, 2016 @06:34PM (#12586189)
1) What is the cost relating to: requests? GB ingested? unique users? sources? Too many variables...

2) On a different topic. There is one thing I'd like to see that would put you at a great advantage over all competitors: The ability to have the tracker appears under my own domain like "stats.mysite.com/whatever".

Right now all client-side javascript scripts are expected to reside on a unique address and it's impossible to change (i.e. alooma.com or google-analytics.com/analytics.js or segment.com). The unique address are systematically blocked by all adblockers.

Re:Show HN: Live visualization of Kafka streams by yairwein on Monday September 26, 2016 @08:17PM (#12586710)
1. Mostly event volume, but also number of integrations 2. It's actually possible if you cname your domain eg. `alooma.user5994461.com` to `inputs.alooma.com`. However, SSL won't work as we don't support installing custom certificates at the moment.