Cloudflare Experiencing Latency Issues (opens in new tab)

    1. dig @1.1.1.1 jgc.org
    2. nc -v 104.22.11.223 80
    3. curl -v https://jgc.org/cdn-cgi/trace
    4. curl -v https://jgc.org/

Of course, in parallel I'm in a conference call with about 40 other people who have actual access to monitoring and systems and other things who can see exactly where things are.

But I was damn close with four commands and gave me confidence in what people were saying. But, I have to say, Cloudflare's internal distributed tracing system is pretty cool because I got sent a trace and you could see right where the slowdown was.

Well in my case the pricing is very easy to understand. It's free!

I only have < 25 hosts so I self-host the open source version on a $5/month DigitalOcean instance (ironically also reverse proxied through Cloudflare)

So I certainly don't think that's exactly dishonest or unfair. It's been rock solid since I've used it. I don't know how many services you'd need to monitor but the starting prices for Standard and Enterprise seem pretty reasonable to me?

It probably doesn't scale to a very large operation - but then it's not really "cloud first" monitoring akin to something like Prometheus, so perhaps their target audience isn't really likely to have a huge number of services to monitor.