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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.

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108mentions?
18HN people?
2015–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 53 in 2017

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?

  1. Using PostgreSQL Full Text Search with Golang
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-17
  2. OpsDash Self-hosted server and service monitoring
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-10
  3. PostgreSQL Clusters
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-05
  4. Exploring the Google Cloud F1-Micro Instance
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-12-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. 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”
  2. Submitted OpsDash Self-hosted server and service monitoring as a story · 51 points

    HN discussion
  3. amitsingh45 · 2017-04-21Recommends
    OpsDash'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?”
  4. Submitted All About PostgreSQL Streaming Replication as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  5. > 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”
  6. Submitted Build Your Own Slack Bot in Go as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  7. Have you seen OpsDash? http://www.opsdash.com/

    Comment linking /

    on “Rtop – agentless sever monitoring tool built with Go”
  8. Submitted Using PostgreSQL Full Text Search with Golang as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. Would 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”
  10. Submitted Checking out Scaleway's new ARM servers as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  11. I like how they display uptime. Does another service do this? http://www.opsdash.com/images/sources.png

    Comment linking /images/sources.png

    on “OpsDash Self-hosted server and service monitoring”
  12. Submitted Build Your Own Slack Bot in Go as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  13. Here'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”
  14. Submitted Using PostgreSQL Full Text Search with Golang as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  15. Nagios or Try this - https://www.opsdash.com

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: FreeBSD/OpenBSD server monitoring?”
  16. Submitted All About PostgreSQL Streaming Replication as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Monitoring 100 servers with a $5/month node as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Using PostgreSQL Arrays with Golang as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Job Queues in Go as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted All About PostgreSQL Streaming Replication as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted 5 Tools for Monitoring Disk Activity in Linux as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Elasticsearch Monitoring with OpsDash as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted OpsDash: self-hosted server and service monitoring at $1/server/month as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted PostgreSQL Replication Slots as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Exploring the Google Cloud F1-Micro Instance as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Job Queues in Go as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Go App Monitoring: Expvar, Prometheus and StatsD as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Logical Replication in PostgreSQL 10 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Writing PostgreSQL Triggers in Go as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted PostgreSQL Monitoring with OpsDash as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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