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title: Nation Wide Monitoring System

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# 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"
