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What to build starts with what people already complain about, not with a guess. These are recurring problems in devops and infrastructure — the kind a small, focused tool or a micro-SaaS could address — with a note on where to start and a rough read on how commercially valuable fixing it looks.
Users are struggling with the lack of built-in alerting features in their monitoring tools, particularly for infrastructure-level metrics. Many express a willingness to pay for solutions that can provide alerts based on critical metrics like health checks and memory pressure, which are currently not well supported.
- Develop a monitoring tool that integrates with existing infrastructure and provides customizable alerting based on key metrics.
- Create a plugin for popular monitoring tools that adds alerting capabilities for infrastructure-level metrics.
- Offer a consulting service to help teams set up their own monitoring and alerting systems tailored to their specific needs.
Who has this problem: DevOps teams, Infrastructure engineers, Site reliability engineers
Buying intentTrend: NewConfidence: Medium5 mentions · 2 communities · new
“+1 there's no option right now to email/page alert for failing healthchecks and other key metrics like memory pressure. will be willing to pay for this and it would allow us to move off of third-party monitoring providers that are only aware of app-level issues and not infrastructure-level like h...” — flyio-community
“Alerts on http://Fly.io Fly.io ? While currently http://Fly.io Fly.io does not have built-in alerting functionality ( not entirely accurate, we alert via e-mail when an application OOMs ), the good news is that you can set up your own monitoring and alerting cluster! You can configure it to alert...” — flyio-community
Users are experiencing various issues with Grafana and Prometheus integration, including timeouts, data not populating, and alert misconfigurations. Many are trying to set up monitoring dashboards but face challenges in getting accurate data and alerts.
- Create a troubleshooting guide for common Grafana and Prometheus integration issues.
- Develop a tool that automates the setup of Grafana dashboards with Prometheus data sources.
- Offer a service that configures Grafana and Prometheus for users based on their infrastructure.
- Build a plugin that enhances Grafana's error reporting for Prometheus data sources.
Who has this problem: DevOps engineers, Infrastructure teams, Monitoring specialists
Pain pointTrend: NewConfidence: Low6 mentions · 1 communities · new
“<p>Metrics collection with Docker Deploy Replica</p>
<p>I am a developer, but in my new job, the company doesn't have a DevOps team. So, we don't have any type of metrics collection or proper CI/CD flows. Because of that, I am trying to implement a few things around here, but I am no expert.</p>
<p>” — stackexchange
“<p>I use Grafana to monitor my company's infrastructure. Everything worked fine until this week, I started to see alerts on Grafana with an error message :</p>
<pre><code>request handler error: Post "http://prometheus-ip:9090/api/v1/query_range": dial tcp prometheus-ip:9090: i/o timeout
</” — stackexchange
Users are experiencing performance issues with their monitoring setups, particularly with tools like Grafana and Logstash. Complaints include slow processing times and timeouts, which hinder their ability to effectively monitor their infrastructure.
- Optimize existing Grafana and Logstash configurations for better performance.
- Create a guide or tool to help users troubleshoot and resolve common performance issues.
- Develop a lightweight alternative to Logstash that focuses on speed and efficiency.
Who has this problem: DevOps teams, Infrastructure engineers, Data engineers
Pain pointTrend: NewConfidence: Low3 mentions · 2 communities · new
“Hi everyone, I've deployed the following Grafana-based observability stack on AWS ECS: Cloudflare Logpush → S3 S3 → Logstash Logstash → Grafana Alloy Alloy → Loki Loki → Grafana All components are running in ECS containers. Issue 1: Logstash Processing Too Slowly Logstash is processing logs from ...” — grafana-community
“Hi everyone, I'm having some issues with my Django Channels WebSocket application scaling configuration. I've set up connection-based scaling with a softlimit of 20 and hardlimit of 25 connections. However, the limits don't seem to be working as expected, and I'm noticing some strange behavior. T...” — flyio-community
Users are experiencing various deployment issues when using Cloudflare, including problems with data synchronization, caching, and MIME type errors. Many are struggling to debug these issues due to a lack of clear error messages or documentation.
- Create a debugging tool for Cloudflare deployments that provides detailed error logs
- Develop a guide or checklist for common Cloudflare deployment issues
- Build a community forum for users to share solutions and workarounds
Who has this problem: developers deploying on Cloudflare, DevOps teams using Cloudflare, web application developers
Pain pointTrend: NewConfidence: Low5 mentions · 1 communities · new
“<p>I built a small writing tool (extracts domain vocabulary, organizes learning notes) using AI-assisted coding. I'm not a traditional developer — I use AI to generate the scripts and deploy them, mostly via CLI.</p>
<p>I deployed to Cloudflare, and the app runs fine on both mobile and web. No error” — stackexchange
“<p>How do I have Cloudflare respect Cache-Control directives for a FastAPI App deployed on Digitalocean App Platform?</p>
<h2>Problem</h2>
<p>I'm experiencing an issue with caching in my FastAPI application when it's deployed in production on DigitalOcean App Platform, which uses Cloudflare. Locally” — stackexchange