[soygul]

Care to explain why one would use this over something much more capable like Grafana? [1]

[1] https://github.com/grafana/grafana

[snug]

Grafana needs a backend datastore, and typically prometheus exporters on each app, etc to get timeseries data that gets into the backend.

This seems to be checking endpoints for data at that specific time, not really doing any complex calculations or anything of that nature.

[sciurus]

How often do you have data that is

1) important enough to display on a dashboard 2) not important enough to record so you can track it over time

?

[ketzo]

Build status immediately jumps to mind.

[kqr]

Getting any sort of interesting insight from that surely requires the context of historical build statuses?

How long will it be down for? When will it be down next? How likely is it that it goes down next week? Is it just me or has it been down a lot this month?

[ThePadawan]

I can only second the sibling comment.

For my use case ("check when the cronjob X on this machine last ran successfully"), setting up a data ingress pipeline which I could later configure as a time series data source seems like 3 times the effort it should actually take.