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📣 d--b

Product to improve monitoring and documentation: a good idea?


Hi HN,

I have an idea for a product, but I want to test the waters before building anything.

Here is the landing page I put together today:

https://www.get-aerial.com/

The idea is to make a tool where you can draw documentation diagrams totally freeform, like: User does X, signal gets sent to DB, process X picks up files here, etc. But instead of being static, you'd have the ability to hook that diagram to actually running code.

That way your code could post hearbeats or logs to my endpoint, and you'd see the node being active in the diagram.

The idea is that this would help:

1. keep documentation diagrams up-to-date

2. allow for full-tech-stack logical monitoring

Any takers?

  👤 dvrj101 Accepted Answer ✓
so the documentation get's parsed by a program which detect hook parts , set them up and look for any trigger then update that part of documentation to show that particular node is active?

edit- or the hooks are already set the program just link them to which part of documentation get's update. Like a tag system?

👤 codingdave
Yep, I'm sure there would be takers of such a product, because such products exist. When I worked in banking, we used Control-M for such things. I have not kept up on similar products in the 20 years since then, but I'm sure more modern competitors exist as well.