PagerDuty (YC S10) Raises $90M at a $1.3B Valuation

Re:PagerDuty (YC S10) Raises $90M at a $1.3B Valuation by exclusiv on Thursday September 06, 2018 @09:38PM (#17931265)

Same here. I need a phone call to pay any attention. I use UptimeRobot and their RSS feed to pipe into a Zapier Zap which uses Twilio to call me and read me the site that is down in a British voice haha. Easy to setup, works and really cost effective!

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Re:PagerDuty (YC S10) Raises $90M at a $1.3B Valuation by borplk on Friday September 07, 2018 @05:40AM (#17932980)

Too many weak points of failure on that setup for an alerting system.

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Re:PagerDuty (YC S10) Raises $90M at a $1.3B Valuation by exclusiv on Friday September 07, 2018 @09:56AM (#17934235)

I don't think so for my usage and I shared it because it's cost effective and would be acceptable for a lot of devs' projects. I still get UptimeRobots notifications if Zapier or Twilio hiccups. For the phone notifications, if the system fails on a given night it's not the end of the world if I don't wake up. I can fix in the morning.

But I agree for e-commerce or mission critical applications - you need redundancy and it's worth ponying up the extra money for an advanced system.

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Re:PagerDuty (YC S10) Raises $90M at a $1.3B Valuation by mgliwka on Friday September 07, 2018 @09:59AM (#17934257)

If you can fix it in the morning, why bother at all? As long as it's not an common occurrence, it should be fine, right?

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Re:PagerDuty (YC S10) Raises $90M at a $1.3B Valuation by exclusiv on Friday September 07, 2018 @08:33PM (#17938710)

Because many times it's just about being proactive and getting things done ASAP because having your client find out first is bad.

I also prefer not starting my day with a fire. I'd rather do it off-hours.

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