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Re:Show HN: Anomalous – Real-time monitoring for servers, ap... by huhtenberg on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @01:37PM (#6477702)
For this sort of service an "About" or a "Company" section is a must. Few people will want to "install the server agent" with an always-on link to the mothership by some unknown publisher.

In fact, if I look at the page request log, I see several static resources being pulled down from yandex.ru. Needless to say this raises the question of company origins and whether their ignorance/negligence with sharing visitors stats may be indicative of how they handle the actual server health data. Then add in the lack of any sort of About section and it kind of starts to look odd.

(edit) I was going to say "just link to the Errplane site at the bottom", but then errplane.com has the exact same problem - no company info.

Re:Show HN: Anomalous – Real-time monitoring for servers, ap... by jessaustin on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @01:40PM (#6477726)
Few people will want to "install the server agent"...

I'm assuming this is actually a client agent (as in, it talks to a server or servers operated by anomalous), but why would it be required anyway? It seems actual log lines are being uploaded to "anomalous" anyway? If it's just to reduce bandwidth, why isn't this just a plugin for rsyslog?