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The vendor lock-in I've seen isn't on the collection side, it's on the display and interpretation side, specifically the dashboard. Vendors offering tools to re
by cratermoon 3y ago
The vendor lock-in I've seen isn't on the collection side, it's on the display and interpretation side, specifically the dashboard. Vendors offering tools to really slice and dice the collected telemetry and display it in visualization that wouldn't make Edward Tufte pull his hair out can make choosing vendor lock-in a serious option.
- datadrivenangel 3y agoTufte pulling his hair out is such a good criteria for picking a visualization tool. And it's a surprisingly high bar!
- cratermoon 3y agoTufte would also want visualizations to be meaningful in addition to factual and clear. If a vendor sells you a propriety visualization tool, they are also likely to include propriety visualizations and analytics. For example, in addition to providing a Tufte-satisfying view of requests/second, the company might include a visualization for the made-up propriety metric "un-monetized requests/second", with the company-proven analysis showing why, if un-monetized requests are greater than some % of total requests, that's a problem that needs solving. Oh! and wonder of wonders, the company happens to have just the solution for the problem. At a small additional licensing fee, of course. It's a bullshit meaningless metric, of course, and wouldn't pass the Tufte test, but the company gets a profit center.
- shahargl 3y ago100%