Show HN: LeanSentry - Better Monitoring for Windows Server Apps

Interesting product, considering trying it out. A few questions<p>1. I gather from reading the How-it-works pages that the monitoring service is not invasive. How about the optional agent, how invasive is that and does it carry extra performance impact? I cant see anywhere explained what it does, and how much of the functionality that depends on it<p>2. On your demo site, in one of the alerts you slow causes of slow queries. It says "SQL query "dbo.spSlowNumbers" caused slow responses on "/Profile/Save". How does your service know the name of the stored proc? Does it hook into SQL server calls or?<p>3. Is it safe to install on a production webserver? Was thinking we would try it out on one of our 5 webservers.<p>4. Is it easy to remove the monitoring service+agent again if we dont like it?<p>Thanks

A few comments:<p>1. We're probably not going to use it unless we can host it ourselves because we can't possibly risk information leaking out of the infrastructure and being thrown god knows where.<p>2. If all it does is IIS/ASP.Net applications, the utility is limited. Everything is about holistic tools which can aggregate everything in one place from all systems. In our situation, we monitor piles of SQL Servers, nearly 100 IIS servers, MSMQ, NServiceBus, Routers, Switches, Disk array IO throughput. One tool to rule them all there.<p>3. I doubt you could actually handle the load of a mid-large site where this would be valuable. What are your guarantees on that front?<p>Not wishing to trash your efforts, but that's how us architects see it and we're the guys with the credit cards :)

Hi there, Just a quick comment, we're using LeanSentry to monitor 50 servers and it's being great! We are a brazilian e-Learning SaaS solution provider and the information that we're getting is helping us polish our application and ensure our customers a great service level. We find new uses for it on a daily basis. Our Product manager, sales, developers CEO, CIO, CFO... everyone uses it as the information is "readable" to everyone, not just tech gurus... As you can set things up in matter of minutes it's definitely worth a try.

Looks cool, certainly seems to provide value above and beyond typical monitoring tools.<p>It would be great if there was a simple calculator on the pricing page, to give a really quick and rough estimate for how much we'd be paying, especially considering the volume discounts and prepay. E.g. 30 large Azure instances for one year. By my calculations that would work out to ~$2300/mo when prepaying for a year (ouch!).

How would something like this compare to a product like New Relic?

Go Mike! I really like this product, can't wait to try it out.

Good luck guys. Good choices for your UI/UX.