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Ask HN: How much should a startup expect to spend on DataDog?
We're looking at APM tools and the default seems to be DataDog but frankly we're experiencing a bit of sticker shock.
- throwaway888abc 4y agoMaybe Netdata will work for you. Very happy user. https://www.netdata.cloud/ https://www.netdata.cloud/ https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/collectors/#apm-application-performance-monitoring https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/collectors/#apm-appli... Hosted / Selfhosted Demo instance: https://london.my-netdata.io/ https://london.my-netdata.io/
- mattevenson 4y agoThanks! I had not heard of Netdata before. I'll take a look to see if it meets our needs.
- lupimiguel 4y agoThis is the way.
- codegeek 4y agoTHere was a YC backed company here that was supposedly "Open Source DataDog" [0] . But looks like they got acquired by Gitlab and seems like technically they are still running that project [1]. I haven't used them personally but worth a look. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25991485 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25991485 [1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/opstrace/opstrace https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/opstrace/opstrace
- twunde 4y agoIn general APM/observability tools are expensive. The good news is that there are a lot of choices including open source tooling like opentelemetry, sentry, vector. You can reduce the cost somewhat by sampling traces, and by only shipping logs of Info or above (ie remove debug logs)