> InfluxDB, Telegraf and Grafana are pretty trivial to set up. No, they're actually not. They're trivial to get to a state of "the process is running on my mac

> InfluxDB, Telegraf and Grafana are pretty trivial to set up. No, they're actually not. They're trivial to get to a state of "the process is running on my machine", but to actually get a set of suitable metrics presented the way you want them, that takes a while, especially if you're not already a skilled sysadmin. It's certainly more than "a couple of hours of sysadmin time every couple of years" that others in this thread suggest. Time and time again I've seen applications painted as "trivial to set up", then when you go to actually try it, the devil is in the details. Getting it running is only the start of it. Unless you have the simplest of use-cases, the stuff that comes out of the box is rarely enough. Ultimately, this is all penny-pinching nonsense at these numbers anyway. If your shop is bigger than a handful of people, $400/mo is chickenfeed compared to other business expenses. Your own use-case may indeed not be suitable for AWS - they do gouge you on traffic, and it looks like you're pushing a quarter-petabyte over the wire monthly, so that's certainly not a happy marriage.