Pro-active System Monitoring

Dear Geof

thanks for your suggestion. Fair point, and I understand the intention to open a support ticket.

That said, for a premium service like Roon, relying on users to repeatedly report outages doesn’t align with modern software development practices.

Today, platforms typically operate with end-to-end observability and proactive operations, meaning:

  • Continuous telemetry across clients, core, and third-party integrations;
  • Synthetic monitoring to simulate real user journeys (e.g. playback sessions);
  • Distributed tracing to pinpoint issues across the stack;
  • Centralized logging and metrics with SLI- and SLO-based alerting;
  • Automated detection of degraded user experience at scale.

In a modern DevOps / SRE setup, incidents are identified and addressed proactively, often before users even notice.

For me, opening tickets for recurring service interruptions feels like a legacy, reactive model. I would expect a service at this level to be self-monitoring and managed accordingly.

I also understand this is not in the hands of you as the forum moderators. Hence, I hope senior management at Roonlabs reads along here from time to time and start acting accordingly.

Regards, Stefan

I’ve moved your post into the Feedback category of the forum to ensure that it will be read by the Roon Labs team.

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