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Show HN: Proby - Task monitoring made simple

29 点作者 john_p_wood超过 13 年前
Hello HN.<p>We were occasionally running into issues where our scheduled tasks would not start when expected. There were many reasons for this (environment changes, lock files not being cleaned up properly, etc). So, we created a simple application to monitor our scheduled tasks, and notify us if they didn't start or finish when expected. Now we're notified immediately (via email or SMS) when a scheduled task isn't kicked off when it is supposed to.<p>The app also keeps track of the run times for past task executions, which has been useful in tracking down unexpected changes in task run times.<p>Proby is currently in closed beta, meaning we're letting people in slowly. It is currently running on a VPS with a few other services. We want to see if there is an interest in the app before purchasing better/additional hardware.<p>Use of the app is currently free. At some point, when it is out of beta, we may begin charging a small fee for the service (although I'd imagine we'd have a free plan of some sort). But, all of that is still up in the air.<p>What do you think?

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john_p_wood超过 13 年前
Hello HN.<p>We were occasionally running into issues where our scheduled tasks would not start when expected. There were many reasons for this (environment changes, lock files not being cleaned up properly, etc). So, we created a simple application to monitor our scheduled tasks, and notify us if they didn't start or finish when expected. Now we're notified immediately (via email or SMS) when a scheduled task isn't kicked off when it is supposed to.<p>The app also keeps track of the run times for past task executions, which has been useful in tracking down unexpected changes in task run times.<p>Proby is currently in closed beta, meaning we're letting people in slowly. It is currently running on a VPS with a few other services. We want to see if there is an interest in the app before purchasing better/additional hardware.<p>Use of the app is currently free. At some point, when it is out of beta, we may begin charging a small fee for the service (although I'd imagine we'd have a free plan of some sort). But, all of that is still up in the air.<p>What do you think?
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AndyNemmity超过 13 年前
Reminds me that I need to build something in Nagios to do this for my cronjobs.<p>The idea of sending my cronjobs to someone else to do this creeps me about (perhaps irrationally), but either way, thanks for the reminder I need to do this myself :)
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watmough超过 13 年前
Very nice, but one suggestion, the 'dashboard' view might benefit from showing a sequence of graphics that show either the status of the last x number of runs:<p><pre><code> X X X ok ok ok X ok </code></pre> obviously color-coded to stand out, or at a minimum show the time elapsed since last successful run.<p>This way provides a real at-a-glance way to see one or more broken tasks.
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smoyer超过 13 年前
It looks pretty nice ... and adding the start and finish notifications doesn't seem too hard.<p>But it seems to me that if Doug really meant what he said below, he would have got up, walked down the hallway and given John a real pat on the back ;)
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DougBarth超过 13 年前
Nice work John! My favorite feature is seeing a graph of historical run time. Really helpful to figure out how a job is doing performance wise.
soitgoes超过 13 年前
Looks great. Is that your own design or based on a template from Themeforest or similar? If a template, do you mind saying which one?
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