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My understanding is that DD is widely regarded as one of the best observability platforms if you can stomach the bill. Could you elaborate on the comment that D
by lijok 2y ago
My understanding is that DD is widely regarded as one of the best observability platforms if you can stomach the bill. Could you elaborate on the comment that DD is "useless"? Would love to understand where it comes short compared to other platforms.
- philstephenson 2y agoHe doesn't know what he's talking about. Don't feed the trolls.
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y agoWhat even is an "observability platform" ? A cursory reading has not enlightened me.
- lijok 2y agoJust a suite of tools to aggregate and action telemetry.
- meiraleal 2y ago[flagged]
- fragmede 2y agothe whole pipeline: from an SDK to add metrics collection to your program, to an agent running on machines, to a collector for those stats, to a dashboard with pretty graphs you can use, sliced up in meaningful ways, and to monitor/troubleshoot problems when they arise, to alerting, so you don't have to worry about the system not running when you're not looking at it.
- commandlinefan 2y ago> What even is an "observability platform" ? $83,000/year to store your log files for you (you have to do the work of storing the log files).
- stackskipton 2y agoIMO, I wouldn't call it useless, it's "useless for most teams". I've been at many companies where they roll out Datadog and collect a crap ton of metrics/logs and so forth. Teams act all gung ho about "being data driven team" but quickly learn, almost all the numbers don't matter. As SRE, I attempt to drill down but any observations are met with silence or "Oh yea, that, meh, toss another 2 cores at the problem and let's move on." At the cost of Datadog, their cost rarely exceeds outage cost or higher cloud bill cost. If you think you need it, buy it for a year where you can probably get good discount rate, use the data to rapidly improve most glaring issues you have then cancel the contract until you need it again in 3 years. Obviously, if you are in highly responsive business, none of this applies but for us just cranking out B2B Rest APIs, you will be fine without Datadog.
- yen223 2y agoHaving had to use many different logging/observability platforms, I have to say Datadog is one of the better ones I've used. Biggest strength is that it is user-friendly. I had very little trouble finding logs I care about, and to set up monitors + dashboards.