Most monitoring is noise.

I've been a software engineer for many years now. Many of those years I was also on call. I know how hard it is to keep a system running smoothly, and to feel confident that it's not about to go down.

I've seen tons of false positives from uptime monitoring tools. Enough that you start ignoring the alerts, because they're just as likely to indicate a problem with the tool itself as with your service. Not to mention deployments that cause a wave of false positives. It's exhausting, and it leads to alert blindness.

You'd think someone would have fixed this by now, that we'd have an affordable and reliable tool to use. It's not for a lack of trying. There are a lot of services out there. But the attempts are half-hearted and usually end up as either a tool that's less reliable than the services it monitors, or a startup that raises a Series A and then starts the squeeze. Neither of those is much help when you're the one on call.

So I'm taking the slower route. Larm is independent and self-funded, run by one person. There's no growth team, no expansion sales, no plan to flip the company. The pricing is simple because I want it to be.

If you write to johanna@larm.dev, I'll read it. And I'll write back.