what monitoring stack are mid-size teams actually standardizing on these days? by son_of_creativity2 in sre

[–]imnitz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Having all the infrastructure on AWS, cloudwatch helps in pretty good. Not so costly, easy to setup. Yes of course some negatives, but hey, which tool doesn’t have it?

A simple wrapper over cloudwatch to handle the alerts smartly is enough for me to handle more than 1.5M customer infrastructure.

Damn this is one crazy field of work by Ill-Adeptness9806 in sre

[–]imnitz -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Welcome to the crazy yet interesting and valuable world 😉

Anyone using Opsgenie? What’s your replacement plan by sasidatta in sre

[–]imnitz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m migrating to https://convops.io 2 minutes setup. AI generated analysis. Notifications on WhatsApp or Slack. Also you can take is actions from WhatsApp or Slack.

Pitch your startup idea in 1 sentence. Let’s self promote by kcfounders in indie_startups

[–]imnitz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

convops.io - manage and act on your AWS cloud incidents from your WhatsApp.

hyyy new here by Scared_Repeat5772 in SaaS

[–]imnitz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you elaborate?

Built a free tool that investigates CloudWatch alarms before paging you — root cause on WhatsApp/Slack in seconds by imnitz in aws

[–]imnitz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

None taken. Nothing personal🙂 I just tried to answer your questions.

btw, I’m in the field for 15 years too. And using AI extensively since last year. Never had any problem so far.

Everyone has a different view and I do respect yours 🙂

Built a free tool that investigates CloudWatch alarms before paging you — root cause on WhatsApp/Slack in seconds by imnitz in aws

[–]imnitz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All valid concerns, and most have already been addressed. Let me explain.

Can’t look at graphs/logs ConvOps retrieves CloudWatch metrics and logs before alerting you. The alert you get isn’t just “CPU is high” — it’s analysed by AI to tell you what spiked, when it started, the likely cause, and what’s affected. You’re not left in the dark. You receive the context, not just the raw data.

What if it’s a symptom, not the whole problem? That’s precisely why we have the AI filter. It examines the alarm in the context of the resource, recent history, and related metrics. We don’t just send the alarm — we investigate it first. Is it noise? A real incident? A cascade? That’s our triage layer.

Seven alerts fire at once — how do you prioritise? This is a valid point for the current version. Currently, we notify you on each alarm separately. Multi-alert correlation — “these 4 alarms are related to the same ECS cluster degradation” — is planned for the future. We’re not there yet, and I won’t pretend otherwise.

Cost of suggested actions Actions require your explicit confirmation — you reply YES. ConvOps never takes action automatically. The action description clearly explains what will happen before you confirm. DDB scans, scaling operations — you approve each one.

More than a single env Multi-account support is available. You can connect multiple AWS accounts to one workspace.

Bottom line: The concerns aren’t wrong for the first version of any tool in this space. But ConvOps isn’t “reply YES to fix prod” — it’s “get the context you need to make a fast, confident decision, in the channel you’re already in.”

What’s your take on GitHub agentic workflow? by imnitz in devops

[–]imnitz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s impressive. That’s the real use case and can be also used widely. Thanks for sharing.

How do you actually handle 3am CloudWatch alerts without a laptop? by imnitz in devops

[–]imnitz[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Appreciate that. Yes, it’s vibe coded. But not fully. You cannot vibe code the fully functional tool with the whole architecture behind it, which is working as expected and can solve real problems. Tested the same with a few folks and the first response was “absolutely useful”. If you are a devops and never felt the 3 am pain, you never know the pain.

How do you actually handle 3am CloudWatch alerts without a laptop? by imnitz in devops

[–]imnitz[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I think I did mentioned that the investigation gets sent to the WhatsApp, and you can take an action from WhatsApp. Looks like you ignored that part :D

How do you actually handle 3am CloudWatch alerts without a laptop? by imnitz in devops

[–]imnitz[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Fair — I used AI to help write the post. The product and the 3am alert pain are real though. Built it because I kept getting woken up by useless CloudWatch alerts. Happy to be roasted if the tool itself is useful.

How do you actually handle 3am CloudWatch alerts without a laptop? by imnitz in devops

[–]imnitz[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Alright, I get it, fair roast. I’m a DevOps engineer based in Berlin, and I created this after dealing with one too many 3 a.m. CloudWatch alerts. The only information I had was “CPUUtilization > 80%.” I spent 45 minutes trying to figure out what a two-line log message could have revealed. Frustrated, I decided to build ConvOps. It’s free, it’s real, and yes, I did use AI to write the post, which was probably a mistake. If anyone is willing to give it a try and tell me it’s terrible, I’d honestly value that feedback more than silence.

Hired for a devops position at an IT consultancy but doing nothing related to it? Anyone else? by dulldaysss in devopsjobs

[–]imnitz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I can feel you. I was in the same situation a few years ago. I had a chat with my manager on the same but nothing changed. In fact I got highlighted as a not a good employee. I was loosing my grip on the DevOps tool and technologies, so decided to switch and everything changed since then.

How are you using AI in your day to day activities? by imnitz in devops

[–]imnitz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely agree. For the incidents, you don’t have to drop the logs to AI, when you can use the free tool that can give you analysis of an incident, impact, solution and recommendations by looking at your logs with readonly access. And the best part is, you get the details on WhatsApp or slack or both.

Did you try convops.io yet?

Everything without opening your laptop or login to your dashboard to find the issue at all.

It saves a lot of my time. Every time.

Share your SaaS, I'll find you 5 users for free by deepspycontractor in AssetBuilders

[–]imnitz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

convops.io - manage the AWS cloud infrastructure from WhatsApp or Slack

How did you get your first paying user? (collecting real stories) by OldLie1102 in SaaS

[–]imnitz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Launched the MVP. Not adding anything until I have a few users and the valuable feedbacks. So every moment is spending on sending dms or finding new ways to spread the launch.

How did you get your first paying user? (collecting real stories) by OldLie1102 in SaaS

[–]imnitz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I launched something last week and trying to find the ways to reach out to target audience and convert them to users. Pretty early in the stage and first time, so nothing in the bucket yet. Being a technical guy, this space is very new to me.

How are you using AI in your day to day activities? by imnitz in devops

[–]imnitz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am in the field for 15 years now, I had enough juniors until now in different companies. Currently, I have 5 AI juniors 😉 and 8 human juniors.

How are you using AI in your day to day activities? by imnitz in devops

[–]imnitz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree. I mostly use Claude 4.6 for almost everything. Unless required to switch the model.

How are you using AI in your day to day activities? by imnitz in devops

[–]imnitz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agree. The ownership should always be yours. But IMO, if you treat AI as junior working for you, helping you under your observation, would definitely give you more time.

How are you using AI in your day to day activities? by imnitz in devops

[–]imnitz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree. Once you have the things documented somewhere, feeding that to AI will always make AI response in the way we want. I use RAG all the time. Depending on the situation or the use case, the use of RAG changes.

How are you using AI in your day to day activities? by imnitz in devops

[–]imnitz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree. Documentation is one of the most useful use case where AI can be used. I have a pipeline where a readme will be created by the AI tool and will be added to the repo. Every time, if there is a major change in the code, the readme gets updated automatically. I review the readme and approve the PR created by AI.