Thread by @QuinnyPig

It's been a while since I've livetwote the setup of something new, so let's explore @Coralogix which I have never heard of before today.

https://twitter.com/2671554108/status/1473721380554297351

Their pricing presumes familiarity with how I'll use it, but the original pain that's driving me in this direction is "I want to make sense of my @awscloud CloudTrail logs." I think not having an explicit "contact us for Enterprise Pricing" CTA is a misstep.

I think detecting the region from which a customer is signing up would be a nice feature, but they may have a reason to prioritize the Europe region.

I click the button and nothing happened. I barely noticed an "email sent" popup at the bottom of the screen. This is a questionable UX decision.

I bias for "make the customer happy as soon as possible, get the rest of their contact info later." I also don't sell SaaS so what do I know?

Security is critically important for things like "my audit logs," so "your password is too strong" erodes confidence.

Having removed any periods and @ signs, I come up with a password that meets the unstated requirements. Onwards!

...and the wheels kinda fall off here. "Use a node runtime that started the deprecation process back in July, and click all this stuff in the console" vs. "deploy this CloudFormation stack" suddenly makes me question how committed to this I really am.

I'm going to soldier onward, but with my "shitposting" @awscloud account that contains no sensitive information whatsoever instead of the account I actually want CloudTrail analysis for.

Okay, this is the way to go, clearly. I do think including it in the onboarding flow is a bit more scalable than "the CEO tweets along with your shenanigans" but again, I do not sell SaaS so what do I know?

https://twitter.com/2671554108/status/1473725578314399754

The "click here to get to the Serverless Application Repository" link takes me to eu-central-1. I blithely change it back to the Sad Region (Ohio) and solidier onward.

I assure you @coralogix that I am remarkably authentic.

This presupposes a model in which CloudTrail isn't a holistic thing but rather specific to a component of an application. I don't think I agree because that can get spendy on the AWS side.

I click the "Deploy" button (ClickOps for the win!) and Lambda console go brrrrrr.

Looks like the runtime is sensible, the docs in the onboarding just lag. I get it.

And a cup of coffee later, we've got logs in @coralogix!

Let's go exploring.

#awswishlist I'd like to apply a tag to an existing CloudFormation stack, preferably via ClickOps.

Hmm. Got logged out, it didn't like the password I'd painstakingly handcrafted, so I whacked the password reset link. It has been ~5 minutes and no email yet.

Emailed the CSE who emailed me. I'll pick this back up once I can get back into @coralogix...

It got reset, and I got back in. Then I picked up my iPad to continue this thread and... password invalid.

Either 1Password is messing with me or there's something very "odd" about the @coralogix login flow.