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I always liked Datadog as a product but it's also true that it is simply way too expensive if you don't spend significant time cost optimizing. But hosting it m

I always liked Datadog as a product but it's also true that it is simply way too expensive if you don't spend significant time cost optimizing. But hosting it myself doesn't really seem like a great solution, I rather invest time in making my app robust than making my monitoring stable.

bibliotekka 3y ago
expensive and totally weird pricing structures make it hard to predict costs
- bdcravens 3y ago
  Haven't used their product in years due to terrible unethical sales practices, but when we did, they billed hourly while AWS billed by the second. As such, it was easy to have a monitoring bill that was much higher than the actual resources being monitored (for example, if you had a lot of instances that terminated and relaunched with short durations)
- abhiyerra 3y ago
  What I found with our customers is that Datadog is about 25% of an AWS bill. With all the addons, etc. I’m still unsure about how the pricing structure actually works since it seems to change from customer to customer. Seems dependent of who your sales person is.
devneelpatel 3y ago
You dont have to host it if you dont want to, we have a SaaS service as well at https://oneuptime.com https://oneuptime.com
- AndyKluger 3y ago
  I understand this is probably not a priority or concern at all, but FYI this is what the page looks like with uBlock Origin configured as what they call "hard mode:" https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/my2pc6adm87.mp4 https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/my2pc6adm87.mp4
  - ycombinatrix 3y ago
    do you know which adlist is blocking the assets?
  - devneelpatel 3y ago
    Maybe its blocking tailwind files. Let me fix this. Ty for reporting.
pranay01 3y ago
You should also check out SigNoz [1], we are an open-core alternative to DataDog - based natively on OpenTelemetry. We also have a cloud product if you don't want to host yourself [1] https://signoz.io https://signoz.io
- popalchemist 3y ago
  Nobody wants open-core. The people you'd think would be into it want full MIT.
magundu 3y ago
Few more services you can try https://www.atatus.com https://www.atatus.com https://tracetest.io/ https://tracetest.io/ https://uptrace.dev/ https://uptrace.dev/ (I work for Atatus)

bibliotekka 3y ago

expensive and totally weird pricing structures make it hard to predict costs

bdcravens 3y ago
Haven't used their product in years due to terrible unethical sales practices, but when we did, they billed hourly while AWS billed by the second. As such, it was easy to have a monitoring bill that was much higher than the actual resources being monitored (for example, if you had a lot of instances that terminated and relaunched with short durations)
abhiyerra 3y ago
What I found with our customers is that Datadog is about 25% of an AWS bill. With all the addons, etc. I’m still unsure about how the pricing structure actually works since it seems to change from customer to customer. Seems dependent of who your sales person is.

devneelpatel 3y ago

You dont have to host it if you dont want to, we have a SaaS service as well at https://oneuptime.com https://oneuptime.com

AndyKluger 3y ago
I understand this is probably not a priority or concern at all, but FYI this is what the page looks like with uBlock Origin configured as what they call "hard mode:" https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/my2pc6adm87.mp4 https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/my2pc6adm87.mp4
- ycombinatrix 3y ago
  do you know which adlist is blocking the assets?
- devneelpatel 3y ago
  Maybe its blocking tailwind files. Let me fix this. Ty for reporting.

pranay01 3y ago

You should also check out SigNoz [1], we are an open-core alternative to DataDog - based natively on OpenTelemetry. We also have a cloud product if you don't want to host yourself [1] https://signoz.io https://signoz.io

popalchemist 3y ago
Nobody wants open-core. The people you'd think would be into it want full MIT.

magundu 3y ago

Few more services you can try https://www.atatus.com https://www.atatus.com https://tracetest.io/ https://tracetest.io/ https://uptrace.dev/ https://uptrace.dev/ (I work for Atatus)