Monitoring

The Problem (Pain Level: 9/10) “Why is our OpenAI bill so high this month?” - A common question haunting every team that has deployed LLMs to production. Current pain points: Cost black box: Hard to track where API costs are coming from Performance opacity: No metrics for response time, token usage, error rates Quality management: No way to monitor and evaluate LLM response quality Debugging hell: Difficult to identify performance degradation after prompt changes Security concerns: Can’t track if sensitive data is being sent to LLMs Real example: ...

The Problem Teams using Django + Celery need to monitor Celery tasks, but: Flower: Requires a separate process (port 5555) Extra Infrastructure: Additional container, process management Context Switching: Jumping between Django Admin and Flower “Celery observability inside Django admin (no Flower, no extra process)” — HackerNews Show HN (2026.01.21) Developers want to manage everything within the familiar Django Admin interface. Market Analysis Aspect Details Target Market Django + Celery teams TAM Django ecosystem $500M+ Competition Status BLUE (niche market) Competitive Landscape Solution Pricing Weakness Flower Free Requires separate process django-celery-monitor Free Limited features, unmaintained Prometheus + Grafana Free Complex setup, overkill Differentiation: Native Django Admin integration, zero extra processes ...

Problem Definition Problems DevOps/SRE teams face when building monitoring: Metric Understanding: Finding the right metric among thousands is difficult Scattered Documentation: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, K8s each have different docs Missing Context: Metric names alone don’t explain their purpose Duplicated Effort: Every team researches the same metrics repeatedly Market Analysis Metric Value Observability Market Size (2026) $34.1B Expected Growth Rate CAGR 19.7% Projected 2035 Size $172.1B Target Customers: DevOps engineers, SRE, platform teams ...

Problem DBAs and DevOps engineers need to check database status anytime, anywhere: Urgent alert during on-call Quick query performance check during meetings Monitor DB status after deployment while away Run simple queries from home on weekends Most existing solutions are desktop/web-centric, and dedicated mobile PostgreSQL monitoring apps are very rare. Market Item Details Target Market Global (GL) Segment Database Monitoring, Mobile DevOps Primary Target DBAs, DevOps, Backend developers TAM Niche market but loyal user base PostgreSQL is the most popular open-source database, widely used in AWS RDS, Aurora, etc. ...

Problem When issues occur in production, developers must jump between multiple tools to gather context: Where do I check the logs? When was the last deployment? What are the related Jira tickets? What are this service’s dependencies? Who is the owner? The cause of unnecessarily long MTTR is this context-gathering time. Market Item Details Target Market Global (GL) Segment Observability, DevOps, Monitoring Primary Target DevOps teams, SREs, on-call engineers TAM $34B+ (2026 observability market) The observability market is growing at 19.7% CAGR, expected to reach $172B by 2035. ...

The Problem (Pain Level: 8/10) SaaS companies lose 4-10% of their revenue annually to leakage. Main causes: Billing errors (incorrect invoices, missed charges) Subscription failures (failed auto-renewals, expired payment methods) Pricing/discount mismanagement (unauthorized discounts, outdated pricing tiers) Revenue recognition errors (accounting misaligned with service delivery) A company with $1M ARR is losing $40K-$100K every year. Target Market Global SMB SaaS Companies - Estimated TAM $2B+ Startups using Stripe, QuickBooks, DocuSign 1-50 person companies without dedicated finance teams Growing SaaS with $10K-$500K monthly ARR What is Revenue Leak Detector? A dashboard that integrates with Stripe, QuickBooks, DocuSign APIs to detect revenue leakage in real-time. ...

The Problem: Analytics Dashboard Fatigue (Pain Level: 7/10) Developers and marketers face a common pain every day: Analytics dashboard fatigue. Tired of seeing the same numbers and graphs daily Depression and helplessness when KPIs drop Viewing data itself becomes stressful Even positive metrics feel meaningless On Reddit r/SaaS, one developer confessed: “I got so depressed looking at analytics dashboards that I converted it into a living garden game.” Target: Individual Developers & Small Teams - $112B Market The Gamification market is rapidly growing from $29B (2025) to $112B (2031) at CAGR 25.24%. ...

The Problem (Pain Level: 9/10) Traditional uptime monitoring tools only check if a site is “alive.” But they miss critical elements from Google’s SEO perspective. Real case: A developer lost $400 in ad revenue while uptime monitors showed everything was fine. The reason? They weren’t monitoring Core Web Vitals, indexing status, or crawlability—things Google cares about. Target Market - TAM $1.2B → $2.5B (2033) Website operators who prioritize SEO Bloggers and content creators Startup marketing managers E-commerce site operators Website Monitoring Market is expected to grow from $1.2B (2024) to $2.5B (2033) at CAGR 8.9%. ...