[jlgaddis]

Well, sure, of course it will, but I don't think Nick is advocating replacing a complete, full featured monitoring system with this.

It could be very useful to, for example, keep an eye on your monitoring system. At $work, we have a pretty extensive monitoring system that we've built out. We use an external service to watch over the monitoring system, though, to alert us of any issues with it that we haven't otherwise caught.

Besides, like he said, it's "fun" and kinda neat.