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I don’t think I’d use it even if they have a self-hosted version. The way they set their pricing based on “number of services” seems like the kind of tactic you use when you want to intentionally make things confusing so you can extract as much value as possible.

What happened to honest businesses with fair, easy to understand pricing?



> What happened to honest businesses with fair, easy to understand pricing?

Well in my case the pricing is very easy to understand. It's free!

I only have < 25 hosts so I self-host the open source version on a $5/month DigitalOcean instance (ironically also reverse proxied through Cloudflare)

So I certainly don't think that's exactly dishonest or unfair. It's been rock solid since I've used it. I don't know how many services you'd need to monitor but the starting prices for Standard and Enterprise seem pretty reasonable to me?

It probably doesn't scale to a very large operation - but then it's not really "cloud first" monitoring akin to something like Prometheus, so perhaps their target audience isn't really likely to have a huge number of services to monitor.




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