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OpsDash Blog
Company blog · opsdash.com/blogprogrammingsystems
OpsDash Blog is the company blog at opsdash.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2015, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 108 times, most often “Using PostgreSQL Full Text Search with Golang”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link OpsDash's blog for technical posts on PostgreSQL and Go, and for a post on running Kubernetes cheaply for personal projects, whose price comparison one commenter disputes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Server monitoring and service monitoring done right. OpsDash is lean, mean, and easy to deploy. It includes intelligent dashboards, rule-based alerting and notification, and an API for custom metrics. Start free today!
Most-linked posts?
- Using PostgreSQL Full Text Search with Golang2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-17
- OpsDash Self-hosted server and service monitoring2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-10
- PostgreSQL Clusters2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-05
- Exploring the Google Cloud F1-Micro Instance2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-12-24
What Hacker News says?
I don't think you're being fair with your comparisons to DO when it comes to price. The f1 micro $5/month Google servers are SO much worse. Those "always free" f1 micros have 600mb of RAM, do not have SSDs and according to some tests[0] you only get 20% of 1 vCPU. There's also some pretty severe write limitations. That's a really big difference vs DO's 1gb of RAM, SSD and 100% of 1 vCPU. The performance difference a…
Comment linking /blog/google-cloud-f1-micro.html
on “Kubernetes Is a Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects”Submitted OpsDash Self-hosted server and service monitoring as a story · 51 points
HN discussionOpsDash's blog has some interesting technical posts, esp. on Postgres and Go: https://www.opsdash.com/blog/index.html
Comment linking /blog/index.html
on “Ask HN: Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?”Submitted All About PostgreSQL Streaming Replication as a story · 13 points
HN discussion> PostgreSQL uses the term cluster to refer to a “cluster” of databases, as opposed to the usual notion of a group of servers or VMs working in a co-ordinated fashion. https://www.opsdash.com/blog/postgresql-cluster.html Note that the "databases" above are logical databases, not database hosts .
Comment linking /blog/postgresql-cluster.html
on “A word used only by Postgres developers”Submitted Build Your Own Slack Bot in Go as a story · 6 points
HN discussionHave you seen OpsDash? http://www.opsdash.com/
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on “Rtop – agentless sever monitoring tool built with Go”Submitted Using PostgreSQL Full Text Search with Golang as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWould be interested if it could do something like OpsDash[1]. Also, would it work with a AWS RDS Postgres? [1] https://www.opsdash.com/blog/postgresql-monitoring.html
Comment linking /blog/postgresql-monitoring.html
on “Pome – Postgres Metrics Dashboard Written in Go”Submitted Checking out Scaleway's new ARM servers as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI like how they display uptime. Does another service do this? http://www.opsdash.com/images/sources.png
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on “OpsDash Self-hosted server and service monitoring”Submitted Build Your Own Slack Bot in Go as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHere's a command-line one written in Go: https://www.opsdash.com/blog/check-ssl-certificate.html
Comment linking /blog/check-ssl-certificate.html
on “Show HN: SSL certificate dashboard”Submitted Using PostgreSQL Full Text Search with Golang as a story · 5 points
HN discussionNagios or Try this - https://www.opsdash.com
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on “Ask HN: FreeBSD/OpenBSD server monitoring?”Submitted All About PostgreSQL Streaming Replication as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monitoring 100 servers with a $5/month node as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using PostgreSQL Arrays with Golang as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Job Queues in Go as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted All About PostgreSQL Streaming Replication as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted 5 Tools for Monitoring Disk Activity in Linux as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elasticsearch Monitoring with OpsDash as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpsDash: self-hosted server and service monitoring at $1/server/month as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted PostgreSQL Replication Slots as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploring the Google Cloud F1-Micro Instance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Job Queues in Go as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Go App Monitoring: Expvar, Prometheus and StatsD as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Logical Replication in PostgreSQL 10 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing PostgreSQL Triggers in Go as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted PostgreSQL Monitoring with OpsDash as a story · 3 points
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