Ask HN: Which web apps help you manage your startup?

pedoh · on May 17, 2010

It's never too early to think about monitoring and metrics. In my opinion you should collect metrics on everything you can think of:

1) How long does it take for my page to load? 2) How long is this database query taking? 3) How long does this API call take? 4) How much storage am I using?

et cetera. Your metrics should give you keen insight into common system metrics as well as application level metrics. Your metrics should show you your trends and tell you when you need to add capacity and / or improve performance.

Cloudkick (http://cloudkick.com) is doing (among other things) a lot to make not only metrics collection but monitoring simple. I'd check them out.

justlearning · on May 17, 2010

you may be disappointed if you don't enough responses. Here is why:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=656147

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=545229

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1184105

This comes up every now and then. IMHO, there's a treasure chest waiting for you in the archive. All you need is the search (searchyc or google site:hn)

iaskwhy · on May 18, 2010

Thanks, this is pretty much what I wanted!

And sorry for not searching more deeply.