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by billllll 937 days ago
> Very cool, is Next support planned?

It's definitely in the pipeline!

> How much traffic can it handle and what's the pricing for cloud? Can't find pricing on your site.

So right now, it's still under development, but if you have a small/medium sized project (like 5QPS maybe), it should work. Pricing is free for now while it's under development.

> How are you different from the 20+ existing monitoring solutions?

You've listed a lot of different types of monitoring tools. You have error reporting, session replay, log muxing, metric dashboards, and distributed tracing.

Catalyst combines a few key features from each category, and makes them play well together. For example, you can find a broken endpoint via the error graph and click on the line to get a breakdown of path params, logs, and errors for that specific endpoint. You can filter by these breakdowns to find matching sessions (which is like tracing + session replay). You can basically go from identifying an error, to finding the underlying cause of the error quickly in one dashboard.

In my experience, most tools don't play well together, like if you see a rise in error rates for an endpoint in your dashboard, then you need to make a separate query in your logging tool or your distributed tracing tool if your tools even give you the fidelity to know what to look for. You end up having to compose (and pay for) multiple tools.Even platforms that provide multiple features like DataDog and SigNoz, the features are separate and don't interact.

Philosophically, Catalyst doesn't just want to optimize for setup time, it also wants to optimize for peace of mind time, i.e. you're confident if your webapp is broken, you'll know. Most existing monitoring solutions just dump data at you, and ask you pick out what's important, and a lot of times they don't give you the fidelity you need.