Hi Guys,
All of the risks listed in this thread are valid. We have decided to give it a try and start a startup providing hosted zabbix, mostly geared towards SME (Small & Medium Enterprises). We find that even with the listed security concerns, having monitoring (and alerting!) for many is a lot better then not having any monitoring at all. Many SME's have no resources to create a separate monitoring environment and maintain that next to their "core-business" environment. You'd be surprised to see how many SME's are really lacking in the monitoring department (kind of as scary as the backup department
).
We will do consulting with larger customers on an ad-hoc basis to see if they might be better off with a full-featured, more secure in-house setup.
We will be running in private Beta for a couple of months, since we want to give our users a chance to tell us what they want out of our services (not dictate it on to them). During the private Beta all our services are free, and at the end we hope to be able to offer free & paid versions (with a discount for peopl who helped us through our beta-stage
).
Our payment model will most likely be based on the number of values you want to store with us, and the amount of time you want to keep them. We don't really care if you want to store 10 items 10 times per minute from 1 host or 100 items once per minute from 10 hosts. For us, the cost is mostly in the architecture needed to store data
We've only started about a week ago, and interest here is overwhelming. Our goal is to run our company completely virtual, so we will work with customers from all over the world eventually. Many of the current competing MaaS (Monitoring as a Service) providers offer much more limited services then we can offer by being backed by zabbix architecture.
As for separate instances vs one large instance, we are not sure yet. We think that we'll probably end up with several instances. As for HA, making the database backend HA is relatively easy, but will not be our first priority. Making the server binary HA is a bit more tricky, but doable. Our first priority is offering good, simple, affordable service to customers that really need it. There's always room for improvement later on
If you'd like to give it a try, feel free to sign up for our private beta (check the website over at http://tribily.com , it's a work in progress ) and we'll be in touch soon to help you get set up.
Walter
Co-founder Tribily
PS. I hope this is not considered spam. I figured this is a very on-topic reply and not unsolicited/unrelated spam. Feel free to tell us otherwise though
All of the risks listed in this thread are valid. We have decided to give it a try and start a startup providing hosted zabbix, mostly geared towards SME (Small & Medium Enterprises). We find that even with the listed security concerns, having monitoring (and alerting!) for many is a lot better then not having any monitoring at all. Many SME's have no resources to create a separate monitoring environment and maintain that next to their "core-business" environment. You'd be surprised to see how many SME's are really lacking in the monitoring department (kind of as scary as the backup department
).We will do consulting with larger customers on an ad-hoc basis to see if they might be better off with a full-featured, more secure in-house setup.
We will be running in private Beta for a couple of months, since we want to give our users a chance to tell us what they want out of our services (not dictate it on to them). During the private Beta all our services are free, and at the end we hope to be able to offer free & paid versions (with a discount for peopl who helped us through our beta-stage
). Our payment model will most likely be based on the number of values you want to store with us, and the amount of time you want to keep them. We don't really care if you want to store 10 items 10 times per minute from 1 host or 100 items once per minute from 10 hosts. For us, the cost is mostly in the architecture needed to store data
We've only started about a week ago, and interest here is overwhelming. Our goal is to run our company completely virtual, so we will work with customers from all over the world eventually. Many of the current competing MaaS (Monitoring as a Service) providers offer much more limited services then we can offer by being backed by zabbix architecture.
As for separate instances vs one large instance, we are not sure yet. We think that we'll probably end up with several instances. As for HA, making the database backend HA is relatively easy, but will not be our first priority. Making the server binary HA is a bit more tricky, but doable. Our first priority is offering good, simple, affordable service to customers that really need it. There's always room for improvement later on
If you'd like to give it a try, feel free to sign up for our private beta (check the website over at http://tribily.com , it's a work in progress
) and we'll be in touch soon to help you get set up.Walter
Co-founder Tribily
PS. I hope this is not considered spam. I figured this is a very on-topic reply and not unsolicited/unrelated spam. Feel free to tell us otherwise though
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