# Nation Wide Monitoring System
## Definitions
* probe - ....
* check - ....
* location - ....
## Actors
* Service Provider (we)
* Community Members
* providing probes for community and commercial product alike
* helping to build the probe software
* Free Users
* Commercial Customers
## Community
* provides gographicaly dispersed probes
### What users get back for it ?
## Product
Key product factors:
* number of probes
## Monitoring features
* ping (icmp)
* metric: round trip time
* metric: availability
* tcp port open
* any tcp port
* metric: round trip time
* metric: availability
* service availability check
* support tcp/udp services
* verify responses from service
* metric: round trip time
* metric: availability
* metric: response correctness (???)
### Probes
* probe availability
* probe location
* local ISP
### Free
#### Users
* enthusiasts and small website owners
### Paid
#### Users
* hosting website users
* e-commerce
* digital agencies (?)
* banks ? insurers ?
* what businesses have high number of consumers as users and most of their business is conducted online ?
#### Distribution channels
## Probes - software
* single multi platform binary
* UX: extremly simple to setup and join the monitoring network
* available as a git repo on GitHub
* Open Source Software in order to:
* build trust
* show full transparency
* community contribution via Pull Requests
* support and enhancment discussions in "issues"