We're very pleased to announce the release of SilverStripe DawnTM!
Dawn is a web environment monitor. And by that, we mean that Dawn monitors the entire "web environment," including the operating system, web server, database, and SilverStripe website.
We've been working hard over the past year to create Dawn. Now it's ready to see the light of day.
We originally built Dawn to meet our needs managing the SilverStripe sites we build for our clients. We realised that if we found Dawn useful, so would anyone responsible for the performance and upkeep of a SilverStripe based site.
Dawn is Software as a Service. There are a number of reasons why we chose to release Dawn as SaaS, but the main reason is that we believe monitoring a web environment is best performed as a service.
After an initial setup, all you need to do is log into a web page to see the current status of your web environment rendered in a beautiful easy-to-understand display. If you want more detail, with one click you can drill down to see heaps of useful information about the status of not just the website, but the web server, database, and operating system. We think it's pretty cool.
Part of managing a site is planning for future needs. What if you could look into the future to see how your site will perform a day from now, a week from now, or even a month from now? Dawn allows you to do just that: predictions of future state based on past behaviour.
We built Dawn on the principles of awareness, transparency, and notification. Dawn provides the tools to reliably answer questions about how a website is performing. Through notifications, graphs, and reports, you'll have a robust picture of your web environment and you'll be able to act accordingly. Finally, you can be confident about the performance of your website.
Dawn is a powerful new tool adding to what SilverStripe Ltd. can offer. We're still focused on building great sites for clients and we're still focused on open source, but Dawn helps us do those things better. And we think Dawn can help you do your stuff better, too.
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Looks great, but the price is much too high.
Posted on 10 Jun 2010 by lx
Great stuff, but would be nice for the small time freelancer / business to have a cheaper plan. I must say though Silverstripe is a force to be reckoned with. Love you. xo
Posted on 10 Jun 2010 by Bob
Loving the new site, well done guys looks very slick :)
Any plans for update on the .org one?
Posted on 27 May 2010 by Simon Slade
To Roel & James
First, James: You're probably right. But if you're paying only $60/mo for web hosting, Dawn might be overkill. If you lose less money from downtime than it costs for a monitoring service, your best option, from a business standpoint, is to live with the downtime.
So, while we hate to say it, Dawn might not be a good option for you at this time. As your organization grows, however, please keep Dawn in mind.
To Roel:
We decided that releasing Dawn as SaaS would better serve our customers by allowing us easily improve Dawn and provide additional features dynamically to meet the evolving needs of our clients. For example, SaaS ensures that patches, if needed, will be applied to every customer at once, and all customers will be using the latest version of the software. This way, our customers' in-house IT teams can focus on improving the performance of their websites, instead of improving the performance of the website monitoring environment!
Don't worry though - SilverStripe Ltd still realizes that it owes much of its success to its decision to open-source SilverStripe CMS, and we're still committed to the principles and philosophy of open source. We also have released the dawnlogger module under the same BSD licences as the SilverStripe CMS. We simply think we can build Dawn better as an SaaS application than as an OSS application.
Posted on 27 May 2010 by Brian Boyko
Would Dawn itself also become Open Source?
Tools like these will become of great value, but currently Dawn is only a shadow of what it can be. For instance knowledge management for system administrators, where documentation can be coupled directly to certain alert types.
Making the tool Open Source could accelerate it's development and give clients a view on how their data is managed (is see some security implications when using services like these)
Posted on 26 May 2010 by Roel Gloudemans
Looks great, but way to expensive for me, $60per month is twice what I'm paying for my whole VPS!
Posted on 26 May 2010 by James Cocker
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