Bugsnag notifies me of exceptions (bugs in my code), and Uptime Robot when my sites are down.
I also configured a few checks with Blazer that notify me when certain SQL queries result zero or non-zero results. For example if there's no new signups for a week, I get emailed.
Nice! Is there anything that the combination of Bugsnag, Uptime Robot, and Blazer doesn't provide you that you wish you had? Would you rather have a single solution, or do you prefer the multi tool approach?
Multi-tool approach works, because everything is best-in-class. Having everything in one tool sounds good, but I'm not sure it would be able to compete with the individual tools.
There's currently two things I miss from these tools:
App performance analysis. There are plenty of tool that provide this, but they tend to be around $99 per month which is a lot of money for something I tend to use occasionally. My use case would be to occasionally analyse and improve performance, rather than track continuously.
Logging. I haven't found a good and affordable tool for this yet. Again, this is something I wouldn't use a lot, until I need to track down a specific issue.
In both these cases added them on-demand isn't great, because it takes some time to get data. But leaving them always running isn't great either as they are quite costly and I don't use them much.
I'd prefer a model where you can always save the data, but only pay when you want to access it.
Bugsnag notifies me of exceptions (bugs in my code), and Uptime Robot when my sites are down.
I also configured a few checks with Blazer that notify me when certain SQL queries result zero or non-zero results. For example if there's no new signups for a week, I get emailed.
Nice! Is there anything that the combination of Bugsnag, Uptime Robot, and Blazer doesn't provide you that you wish you had? Would you rather have a single solution, or do you prefer the multi tool approach?
Multi-tool approach works, because everything is best-in-class. Having everything in one tool sounds good, but I'm not sure it would be able to compete with the individual tools.
There's currently two things I miss from these tools:
App performance analysis. There are plenty of tool that provide this, but they tend to be around $99 per month which is a lot of money for something I tend to use occasionally. My use case would be to occasionally analyse and improve performance, rather than track continuously.
Logging. I haven't found a good and affordable tool for this yet. Again, this is something I wouldn't use a lot, until I need to track down a specific issue.
In both these cases added them on-demand isn't great, because it takes some time to get data. But leaving them always running isn't great either as they are quite costly and I don't use them much.
I'd prefer a model where you can always save the data, but only pay when you want to access it.