SaaS on STHEOShttps://stheos.de/en/tags/saas/Recent content in SaaS on STHEOSHugo -- gohugo.ioents@stheos.de (Timo Staudinger)ts@stheos.de (Timo Staudinger)© 2026 STHEOS UG (limited liability)Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000Why we built our own server monitoring tool (instead of using Prometheus or Datadog)https://stheos.de/en/posts/2026/watchgrid-server-monitoring/Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000ts@stheos.de (Timo Staudinger)https://stheos.de/en/posts/2026/watchgrid-server-monitoring/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.