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blog.dataloop.io is the company blog at blog.dataloop.io, writing about data and systems. Since 2013, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “What we learnt talking to 60 companies about monitoring”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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22mentions?
7HN people?
2013–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 11 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Readers link it for a comparison of open source time series databases, shared with a spreadsheet. It is also cited on the server monitoring market and competition.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. What we learnt talking to 60 companies about monitoring
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-01-31
  2. A Review of Time Series Databases
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-08-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. Here [0] is a good blog post and spreadsheet comparing the various open source time series databases. [0]: https://blog.dataloop.io/top10-open-source-time-series-datab...

    Comment linking /top10-open-source-time-series-databases

    on “InfluxDB 1.0 GA Released: A Retrospective and What’s Next”
  2. Submitted A Review of Time Series Databases as a story · 133 points

    HN discussion
  3. Broader comparison of the facts: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sMQe9oOKhMhIVw9WmuCE... Also a blog comparison: https://blog.dataloop.io/top10-open-source-time-series-datab... From reading benchmarks and various articles on how to setup druid for real-time analytics it isn't great. Druid was designed for batch workloads. Feeding the database slowly and then once complete performing analytics over a large da…

    Comment linking /top10-open-source-time-series-databases

    on “A Comparison of Time Series Databases and Netsil’s Use of Druid”
  4. Submitted Comparison of opensource time series db's as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  5. The raw data in the spreadsheet, which I have continued to update and is now up to 15 databases with 30 characteristics each, is indeed applicable to both people who want to pick up a database and use it in their monitoring stack, or who want to use a time series database for another purpose. Some of the newer additions like Warp10 and Akumuli for example have comments about being great choices for sensor applicatio…

    Comment linking /2014/01/30/what-we-learnt-talking-to-60-companies-about-monitoring/

    on “Comparison of opensource time series db's”
  6. Submitted Using Monitoring Dashboards to Change Behaviour as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  7. > D) Idea: Web based server monitoring tool (CPU, RAM, etc...) with a pretty UI > Issues: Super small market? This is definitely not a small market and there is plenty of competition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7340001 http://blog.dataloop.io/2014/01/30/what-we-learnt-talking-to...

    Comment linking /2014/01/30/what-we-learnt-talking-to-60-companies-about-monitoring/

    on “Ask HN: 14 days off work, help me pick a project”
  8. Submitted Time Series Database Top10 Updated: Atlas, Heroic, Chronix, Hawkular and Warp 10 as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  9. Spreadsheet link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sMQe9oOKhMhIVw9WmuCE... Blog Link: https://blog.dataloop.io/top11-open-source-time-series-datab...

    Comment linking /top11-open-source-time-series-databases

    on “A discussion about Time Series databases”
  10. Submitted DalmatinerDB: A fast, distributed metric store has been released on Linux as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Benchmarking open source Time-Series databases as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Kubernetes vs. mesos vs. swarm as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted What we learnt talking to 60 companies about monitoring as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Ops Dashboard Examples as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted IFTTT (If This Then That) for DevOps as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted What we learnt talking to 60 companies about monitoring as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Dataloop now supports Prometheus metrics as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted How we scaled our monitoring platform as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Throwing the baby out with the bathwater as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Using Monitoring Dashboards to Change Behaviour as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted What we learnt talking to 60 companies about monitoring as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted The Art of Good Alerting as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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