> We had been grappling with what we should do for most of August 2013 and had another idea that I planned to debut at Monitorama in Berlin in late September. The conference was all about monitoring and I thought it would be a good place to find a receptive audience for a new monitoring product.
It was going to be called Anomalous. The idea behind it was that it would be an agent that gets deployed everywhere in your infrastructure that has collection, time series storage (either in memory, on-disk or both), alerting, and a basic web UI.
The agents would all call to a central service, which would have bidirectional communication. The central service would then act as a distributed alerting/query aggregator. So you could hit that and query a specific agent, aggregate across multiple ones, etc.
Kind of like a fully distributed time series, monitoring, and anomaly detection platform.
I still like the idea, but we didn't have the runway or resources to go down that path. Open source got us much more traction, combined with the fact that I personally like to work on OSS projects :)
What was it?