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Re:Show HN: WebGazer – Simple and Affordable Website Monitor... by th0th on Thursday October 25, 2018 @12:44PM (#18302294)
Hi, this is Gokhan from WebGazer Team. Thanks for the comment, we are aware of the availability of cheaper services. As a matter of fact, some of them are the reason we started WebGazer.

Alerting is a basic thing and it is done kind of OK by some others. But true analytics is hard to get, we are still working on providing better reports. As an obvious plus, we provide status pages we produce by the monitoring data collected. This is for not making you depend on another service just for a status page.

Also, we are looking for ways to make WebGazer a complete monitoring and analytics platform. Plans still aren't very clear but server monitoring or client-side analytics are some things we have in mind.

Re:Show HN: WebGazer – Simple and Affordable Website Monitor... by fredley on Thursday October 25, 2018 @01:22PM (#18302579)
From what I see, the 'true analytics' available are exactly the same as what I'm getting already. The data's available from my current service to download raw if I want to export it to another analytics platform anyway. I already have (free!) public status pages, as do most competitors' offerings, so it's not another service.

I don't mean to shit on your product, it's good! I think you need to be clearer about why I should pay quite so much more for it. At the moment it doesn't seem worth it by a long shot. If you plan to build the platform out into something more featureful, then say that, and give early adopters a discount (so that they're not paying more for services which are currently equivalent). Uptime Robot has been around for 8 years, and they're still giving out early-adopter discounts!

Re:Show HN: WebGazer – Simple and Affordable Website Monitor... by StavrosK on Thursday October 25, 2018 @05:59PM (#18304946)
Where do you get your status pages from?

EDIT: I wrote some OSS to email you if a service (like a cronjob) does not check in[0]. Maybe I should add a status page component to it so you can see failed services at a glance, that seems like the right way to do status pages.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/stavros/caduceus

Re:Show HN: WebGazer – Simple and Affordable Website Monitor... by anderiv on Thursday October 25, 2018 @06:59PM (#18305363)
My word I’ve been looking for a self-hosted alternative to Dead Man’s Snitch for ages. Thank you for this!
Re:Show HN: WebGazer – Simple and Affordable Website Monitor... by StavrosK on Friday October 26, 2018 @10:51AM (#18309727)
You're welcome, that's exactly why I made it! Please open an issue if you have any feature requests or notice any bugs!
Re:Show HN: WebGazer – Simple and Affordable Website Monitor... by WhiteOwlLion on Friday October 26, 2018 @01:59AM (#18307085)
I use UptimeRobot too. Works fine for me and I get reliable notifications by e-mail when an IP address or domain is unavailable.