WatchGrid
We open-sourced our agent and you should too
·5 mins
Open Source
Software
WatchGrid
AI
Software Development
We recently open-sourced the agent for our new server monitoring tool, WatchGrid. It wasn’t just a marketing move; it is a reflection of how the software landscape is changing.
Why we built our own server monitoring tool (instead of using Prometheus or Datadog)
·4 mins
Monitoring
WatchGrid
SaaS
DevOps
Linux
Behind-the-Scenes
The monitoring dilemma: for simple setups and client VMs, Prometheus is too complex to maintain and Datadog is too expensive. Here is the story of why we built WatchGrid and why we took matters into our own hands.
