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by dschofie 946 days ago
Thanks for sharing! It would be cool to share a loom or a sample dashboard to get things going, as I'd love to see a little more before signing up. It's hard for me to tell where this fits in. Is it a replacement for early usage of datadog? Does this offer support like pagerduty for pinging me? Is it the devX of setup?

Congrats on the launch!

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Thanks! Let get a demo video going. In the meantime, there are little snippets of the UI on https://www.catalystmonitor.com/.

It's a bit like Datadog in the sense that you do have dashboards but it doesn't monitor blackbox metrics (like CPU %, etc), and focuses on whitebox metrics like error %.

What Datadog and other monitoring products don't do (AFAIK) is give you the ability to drill into your error %. You can breakdown your frontend pages and backend endpoints by path params, status code, log messages, (and soon) user to find commonalities and narrow down your smoking gun. After you find your smoking gun, you can immediately get traces and log messages of what happened from frontend to backend.

For example, if I notice a server endpoint has a high error %, I can check my breakdowns to see if it's specific to a user or endpoint, and if there is any log messages that happened for every error. Once I've narrowed it down, I can quickly find sessions that include the server endpoint with the breakdowns I've selected, and see what happened on the frontend and backend(s). The idea is to provide this value with minimal setup.

Paging is definitely something that I want to implement.

Text is hard so I'll record a video.

You an see a (very quickly made) demo here: https://www.loom.com/share/5b38a328ded94f93a980f1ba28081329?...
The dashboard looks clean in this loom, and I don't think the pictures you have on https://www.catalystmonitor.com/ do the same justice that this loom does. The pics look a little blurry, and it's hard to see how the screenshots fit in. While the loom shows off the entire dashboard and looks great!

Best of luck with everything