Ask HN: What SaaS would you recommend to monitor business data of a Django app?

3 points

3 years ago

Hello HN :)

I'm about to launch a prototype of a product. The backend is made with Python/Django.

I'd like to track some metrics:

  - current number of users and delta from previous week
  - number of $MODEL inserts per hour and per day
  - number of API requests
  - min/max/average time of requests
  - number of 401s, 404s, 500s, etc...

In an enterprise setting, I'd set up a Prometheus exporter[0] and use the company's Grafana to build a monitoring dashboard.

But here, I don't have such infrastructure. The app will be deployed to fly.io with a PostgreSQL database.

I'm eager to hear/read your recommendations for:

  - an SDK/library/framework to export the metrics from my Django app
  - a SAAS product to build the dashboard visualizing those metrics

Thank you in advance.

[0] - https://github.com/korfuri/django-prometheus