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Datadog startup journey from my perspective: 1. use Datadog, because it gets you a bunch of stuff without having to really set it up, like anomaly detection, w

by c2h5oh 3y ago

Datadog startup journey from my perspective: 1. use Datadog, because it gets you a bunch of stuff without having to really set it up, like anomaly detection, which is poor man's monitoring & alerting 2. once you start getting product-market fit and the number of instances you run grows you notice your monthly bill going crazier and crazier and you now have something that starts to resemble an ops team -> migrate to a different product, set up proper monitoring I've seen that at 3 companies I worked at.

brianwawok 3y ago
Right, the monitoring cost with datadog of my little business would be 7 figures (and revenue is only 7 figures!!) I mean, I guess they want to exclude people like me.. but then why market to me?
ericmay 3y ago
I'm not familiar with pricing but depending on alternatives maybe this isn't so bad? > and you now have something that starts to resemble an ops team Like what if Datadog just replaces your ops team completely? What if we start to see AI tools that do cost a lot of money but they can replace a team? Just curious.
- dijit 3y ago
  Datadog does one part of an ops team, even if it could do all functions of an ops team I would make convincing arguments about your sovereignty of fixing your issues and being resistant to price gouging
secondcoming 3y ago
We're going through this now. What other products are out there, preferably easy for a moron to set up?
- slondr 3y ago
  Check out Grafana.
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- pranay01 3y ago
  You should check out SigNoz (https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz) - It's an open source alternative to DataDog with metrics, traces and logs in a single application. You can just self host it yourself or try the hosted version. PS: I am one of the maintainers at SigNoz
- mikeshi42 3y ago
  we're working on one! based on open telemetry (no vendor lock-in) and clickhouse (which makes it cheaper/faster) it currently supports logs, traces, session replay/RUM, alerts and dashboards - would love to hear what you think :) https://www.hyperdx.io https://www.hyperdx.io

by c2h5oh 3y ago

brianwawok 3y ago

Right, the monitoring cost with datadog of my little business would be 7 figures (and revenue is only 7 figures!!) I mean, I guess they want to exclude people like me.. but then why market to me?

ericmay 3y ago

I'm not familiar with pricing but depending on alternatives maybe this isn't so bad? > and you now have something that starts to resemble an ops team Like what if Datadog just replaces your ops team completely? What if we start to see AI tools that do cost a lot of money but they can replace a team? Just curious.

dijit 3y ago
Datadog does one part of an ops team, even if it could do all functions of an ops team I would make convincing arguments about your sovereignty of fixing your issues and being resistant to price gouging

secondcoming 3y ago

We're going through this now. What other products are out there, preferably easy for a moron to set up?

slondr 3y ago
Check out Grafana.
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pranay01 3y ago
You should check out SigNoz (https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz) - It's an open source alternative to DataDog with metrics, traces and logs in a single application. You can just self host it yourself or try the hosted version. PS: I am one of the maintainers at SigNoz
mikeshi42 3y ago
we're working on one! based on open telemetry (no vendor lock-in) and clickhouse (which makes it cheaper/faster) it currently supports logs, traces, session replay/RUM, alerts and dashboards - would love to hear what you think :) https://www.hyperdx.io https://www.hyperdx.io