[danfromberlin]

Hi Kristopolous,

In a nutshell, Monitor in a box is a system/application monitoring solution based on Ansible, Icinga 2 and Grafana.

I would like to kindly point you to our demo to see what our software does.

We've also made our code available at github, and I invite you to check out our README to get an idea of how to begin using.

I hope that helps clarify what we're trying to do.

[kristopolous]

The github readme is far better. Have you ever been to the vendor floor of a Linux convention? It's like 30-40 "monitoring" and "devops" solutions with a web dashboard that in my mind are indistinguishable complex solutions to simple problems. I'm looking for simple solutions to complex problems...Thanks for responding

[jamiesonbecker]

> simple solutions to complex problems

Too true. Messaging that is relevant to both technical people ("devops") and business (management, procurement, etc) is a hard problem to solve, though!

There seems to be a marketing tendency to either gloss over the technical ideas behind a product, or make technical details front-and-center and leave anyone less than 100% technical searching for a product that they can grok.

This is something we're struggling with right now: our basic messaging for Userify (ssh key management), which is actually a fairly simple and sane product, has gotten a bit out of hand as well: our support team is fielding frequent questions like, "what does each edition do." We've got to get on top of that and get some comparison matrices or something up. Applauding the OP for a nice, clean landing page that conveys most of the relevant details, but as you point out, the Github readme is far better. There's a lesson in there somewhere.

[otterley]

What's your value proposition, besides the installation mechanism itself? The components are all readily available.