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by sm4rk0 2292 days ago
But visualising the data and alerting are two different things.
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Yes, which is why you shouldn't use wall boards for alerting, only for visualization.

https://demo.monitoror.com/?configUrl=https://monitoror.com/... is full of things that aren't visualizations at all (no graphs, no sense of whether things are abnormal but not past an alerting threshold, etc.) and are in fact alerts (the website is fine, one PR failed, the QA nodes are ... doing something but there isn't enough space to see what is wrong).

If you want some graphs, great. If you want your team to look up every few minutes and poll some graphs (or worse, some colored rectangles) to figure out what they're supposed to be doing, consider that polling is usually the wrong approach.

(To be clear, this is a criticism of the choice of demo data, not of the product overall. A product like this has its uses, but "our alerting system is people looking up at the TV" is not one of them.)