Monitoring
Why we built our own server monitoring tool (instead of using Prometheus or Datadog)
·4 mins
Monitoring
WatchGrid
SaaS
DevOps
Linux
Behind-the-Scenes
The monitoring dilemma: for simple setups and client VMs, Prometheus is too complex to maintain and Datadog is too expensive. Here is the story of why we built WatchGrid and why we took matters into our own hands.