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About

The people behind Driftband

Driftband wasn't born in a meeting room. It was built by people who have been on the other end of a 3 a.m. alert themselves.

Łukasz Morawski
Founder & originator

Łukasz Morawski

I first went online in 1996, walked into the largest library in the world, and somehow never found the way out. It stuck.

I've been up to my elbows in IT for close to thirty years: networks, servers, data centers, monitoring 24/7/365. In short - making sure the things that are supposed to work actually do. And when they stop, I want to know before the client does. Usually I do 😉

Along the way I learned one thing: the dangerous failures aren't the loud ones, they're the quiet ones. A link that slowly picks up jitter, a route that changed overnight, a few lost packets every hour. Those quiet things are exactly what Driftband makes visible before they turn into a surprise.

I can't stand corporate-speak and slides where everything is 'synergistic', where the company 'drives synergy' in yet another meeting that leads nowhere. I prefer things that simply work and say plainly what they mean - and that's why Driftband exists.

The team is growing - more faces soon.

Why Driftband

Two decades of SmokePing, one missing piece.

I have relied on SmokePing almost since its first release in 2001. It taught me to look at latency as a distribution, not a number. What it never had was a way to share that view safely: with a team, with customers, with an auditor in the room.

Driftband keeps the smoke and adds the rest: a web interface for everything, organizations and roles, two-factor sign-in, alerts that do not spam and an audit log of every action. Built in Poland, released as free software under the AGPL-3.0.

Read the whole story

  • online since1996
  • in ITclose to thirty years: networks, servers, data centers, 24/7 monitoring
  • SmokePingin production almost since the first release
  • based inPoland
  • licenseAGPL-3.0