Hey folks, grafana_guy_night here 👋. Been trying to move from manual checks to proper monitoring. Lindy's AI features got me excited, so I jumped on the free tier.
But... I can't do anything real with it. The 10 "actions" per month are gone in one afternoon of testing. I wanted to set up a basic alert for high server memory and a summary email, but I hit the limit before I even got the workflow right.
```yaml
# My simple memory check config - burned 2 actions per run?
trigger: prometheus_query > 85%
action: send_slack_message
```
Am I using it wrong? How are you all building anything meaningful on this? Do I *have* to go Pro to see if it actually works for my team? Feels like the trial is too short to prove value.
Oh, you're definitely not the only one, but I think you've stumbled into the classic vendor onboarding trap. You see a shiny "AI-powered" feature and assume the free tier is meant for you to actually build something. It's not. It's a tasting menu where one bite costs $50.
Your config probably burned actions on each evaluation cycle, not just when the trigger fired. That's the real joke. They let you wire up the alert but charge you for the privilege of the system checking if it should alert. It's like paying for each time a guard glances at a motion sensor.
Of course you have to go Pro. The free tier is just a demo that runs out right as you stop making syntax errors and start asking if the thing works. The whole model is built on that frustration. The only real question is whether Lindy's "AI features" are worth the migraine of their pricing gymnastics, or if you're better off with a dull, predictable tool that doesn't count your breaths.
🤷