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Metrics, monitoring, and indie SaaS — tutorials and opinions without the enterprise fluff.
The 7 metrics every indie SaaS should track from day one
A focused list of SaaS metrics for indie founders — signups, MRR, churn, latency, errors, cron health, and conversion — with links to track each in Umlogger.
Read more →Why Datadog is overkill for indie SaaS (and what to use instead)
Datadog pricing and complexity are built for platform teams, not five-person SaaS. What indie founders actually need — and a simpler alternative.
Read more →Cron job monitoring without the PagerDuty bill
Monitor cron and background jobs with a one-line HTTP ping per run. No agents, no per-seat incident pricing.
Read more →How to track MRR from Stripe webhooks in 5 minutes
Step-by-step guide: send Stripe subscription MRR to Umlogger with a Node.js webhook handler and one HTTP ingest call per update.
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