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#3 Deconstructing the TC40: GotStatus

#3 in my “deconstructing the TC40″ series (see #1, #2).

GotStatus. Analytics for back-end, server-side stuff.

Summary: Gets a “hold” rating from me. Tech sounds good, value is there, but target market is too small.

The Proposition: GotStatus claims to be the “Google Analytics” of the server-side. The goal is to make gather statistics (about your database performance, for example) as simple and as powerful as Google has made gather stats about your user’s experiences.

Value Add: Monitoring site health is an often complex process. GotStatus wants to make it simple.

Warning Bells: Sites that are big enough to need serious-server side metrics are already getting them through professional IT shops, packages like WebTrends, and built-in transaction logging systems. Sites small enough to not have access to these resources I’d say are generally small enough to not need server side metrics in any serious way at all. In other words, GotStatus is targeting a very small middle ground: companies that are big enough to need server metrics but small enough to not have “professional” means of accessing them. How big is this market?

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