englambert

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What Is Log Aggregation?(opstrace.com)
4 points by englambert 5y ago|1 comments
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by englambert 5y ago
Opstrace explains log aggregation and how its open source approach is different.
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by englambert 5y ago
We haven't decided on that yet. We will probably use a WYSIWYG Markdown editor (recommendations welcome!) along with a Git GUI client. That may not work forever, but it should be fine in the medium-term. Note: marketing folks will pr
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by englambert 6y ago
:facepalm: Yes, indeed, I conflated the website and the GitHub org. Mea culpa.
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by englambert 6y ago
Heh, yes, the PII scrubbing need is very real. This is definitely a contributing factor to our data ownership commitment--just keep your data in your own account. On the cost topic, last week we published a blog post analyzing the cost of r
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by englambert 6y ago
Sounds good. I know that feeling. :-) Cheers.
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by englambert 6y ago
Our installer is indeed an important part of what we’re offering and we’re continuously evolving our operator to manage the ongoing maintenance. But in terms of being a feature complete, Open Source Datadog, you’re right that we have a long
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by englambert 6y ago
Yes, indeed! Currently you can already using the Prometheus remote_write API as discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25992392 . So if you can collect your in-house metrics with Prometheus, then you could writ
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by englambert 6y ago
You’re absolutely right. As mentioned earlier ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25993825 ), our goal is to be super transparent; we want you to fully understand what you’re spending on infrastructure. We feel good that t
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by englambert 6y ago
Hey, thank you. :-) That’s kind of how we feel -- it seems like everyone is building tooling around Prometheus, and frankly, we hope that collective effort can hopefully be redirected to more impactful value creation for our industry. On a
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by englambert 6y ago
We’re building Opstrace to be as simple as a provider like Wavefront -- we’ve failed if you need additional competencies to manage it. That being said, we’re early in our journey and still have a ways to go. As mentioned in the original pos
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by englambert 6y ago
Perhaps on a related note, see this discussion about the power of incentives here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25994653
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by englambert 6y ago
It's hard to answer that concretely without knowing a little bit more about your use cases. Care to share a bit more? One thing comes to mind: we don't bill by data volume. Wavefront is charging you for the volume of data your app
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by englambert 6y ago
Chris here, from the Opstrace team. As it turns out, it’s just a happy coincidence. When we discovered theirs we fell in love with it as well. They have many different versions of their monster ( https://www.scylladb.com/m