[itwasntandy]

I miss Boundary.

Their traffic flow monitoring with per second granularity was utterly amazing. It had almost no overhead, it gave the equivalent of netflow data for instances in EC2, way before AWS gave VPC flow logs. It was incredible.

Alas their sales team were incredibly difficult to deal with, managing to both seem to not know how or what they were selling, whilst at the same time being incredibly heavy handed, escalating to my VP over a minor delay in contract signing and causing trouble to the point I had to almost beg my VP not to tear up the contract because of their actions.

As a result of what I perceive to be the sales org's failure, the company was forced to pivot into a generic monitoring product, which lost its identity and got borged by BMC.

There's nothing like boundary on the market today, if there was I'd be lining up to buy it.

[tptacek]

Was Boundary agent-based? You'd install something on all your instances, or start from their AMI or something?

[captain_perl]

Yes, Boundary is agent-based.

I visited their office in SF when they were 2 guys. :)

We used Boundary at Netflix to monitor Cassandra clusters - you can see mentions of that on Slideshare.

VividCortex takes the Boundary concept a step farther for databases.

RackPing.com currently has non-agent visualization tools for SREs now, but will also have a Boundary-style agent shortly. (Disclaimer: affiliated with them.)

[samstave]

What happened to them?

What happened to SignalFX?