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how is different from datadog ?

vmihailenco 5y ago
Well, I had a delusion that Uptrace will have clean and simple UI, but I guess for others the UI is just as confusing. :( I think we've done pretty good job with filtering+grouping+aggregation and data exploration in general. That is something I am proud of. Uptrace is significantly cheaper. As for the rest, it is the same but different. DD is bigger and more complex. I guess that is not the problem when you get used to the UI.
- schmurfy 5y ago
  We have been using your hosted service for a while now and we are perfectly happy with uptrace, compared to jaeger the UI is miles ahead, I like jaeger for what it brought but the ui is just not very good. We tried other hosted services but most if not all of them consider you are creating gold from thin air and charge you accordingly, we started with a hosted jaeger solution and switched to uptrace without looking back.
- tarun_anand 5y ago
  For an open source young project, your UI is pretty good. In fact that is what got me here to comment! Any mobile client sdk? Android/iOS you are aware of?
  - vmihailenco 5y ago
    OpenTelemetry Java should work with Android, but I haven't really tried it. Java supports true auto-instrumentation so it should not be hard to figure out if you have an Android project.
mnahkies 5y ago
As far as I understand the license you're allowed to self host this for free, so long as you're monitoring your own stuff rather than reselling monitoring as a service. I can see this being very attractive for side projects / early stage bootstrap stuff where you may not be able to afford something like datadog. On the flip side, there is something to be said about someone else hosting your monitoring systems, as hopefully if you have a massive outage the third party system will still be up. I'd imagine that you could achieve this here by starting off self hosted and then migrating to their cloud offering once your systems were critical enough to justify it. You're right that this is a pretty crowded space though - look forward to seeing how they do
- vmihailenco 5y ago
  You are right about the license - it allows everything Apache 2.0 allows except reselling monitoring as a service.

Well, I had a delusion that Uptrace will have clean and simple UI, but I guess for others the UI is just as confusing. :( I think we've done pretty good job with filtering+grouping+aggregation and data exploration in general. That is something I am proud of. Uptrace is significantly cheaper. As for the rest, it is the same but different. DD is bigger and more complex. I guess that is not the problem when you get used to the UI.

schmurfy 5y ago
We have been using your hosted service for a while now and we are perfectly happy with uptrace, compared to jaeger the UI is miles ahead, I like jaeger for what it brought but the ui is just not very good. We tried other hosted services but most if not all of them consider you are creating gold from thin air and charge you accordingly, we started with a hosted jaeger solution and switched to uptrace without looking back.
tarun_anand 5y ago
For an open source young project, your UI is pretty good. In fact that is what got me here to comment! Any mobile client sdk? Android/iOS you are aware of?
- vmihailenco 5y ago
  OpenTelemetry Java should work with Android, but I haven't really tried it. Java supports true auto-instrumentation so it should not be hard to figure out if you have an Android project.

mnahkies 5y ago

As far as I understand the license you're allowed to self host this for free, so long as you're monitoring your own stuff rather than reselling monitoring as a service. I can see this being very attractive for side projects / early stage bootstrap stuff where you may not be able to afford something like datadog. On the flip side, there is something to be said about someone else hosting your monitoring systems, as hopefully if you have a massive outage the third party system will still be up. I'd imagine that you could achieve this here by starting off self hosted and then migrating to their cloud offering once your systems were critical enough to justify it. You're right that this is a pretty crowded space though - look forward to seeing how they do

vmihailenco 5y ago
You are right about the license - it allows everything Apache 2.0 allows except reselling monitoring as a service.