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About fat-apple

Co-Founder at Opstrace, Inc. https://opstrace.com

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    Comment #26003597

    We’re truly sorry that you felt let down! You raise a great point that is worth clarifying though. All logs, metrics and future traces are stored in S3/GCS (and yes metrics are sto…

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    Comment #25997244

    Thanks for the great feedback, definitely understand where you're coming from and we'll keep that in mind moving forward! Very much appreciate the constructive criticism!

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    Comment #25996794

    Thank you! We like to simplify but not obfuscate!

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    Comment #25996505

    Thank you! Yes, design is very near and dear to our hearts! If you’re interested in giving me some early feedback on our UX, email me mat@opstrace.com.

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    Comment #25996458

    Thanks for your support! We’re still early in our journey when compared to the featureset Datadog has built over time, but we definitely aspire to bridge the best of Datadog and op…

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    Comment #25996376

    Thanks for your feedback! As with many in the industry, we are trying our best to figure this out. Our intention is to be really transparent with how we build and price software, w…

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    Comment #25996200

    Curious to learn more about the tradeoffs you’ve found between Cortex and Victoria Metrics and why you could be drawn to one more than the other?

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    Comment #25996154

    Thanks for that feedback - we've got a lot of work to do to make that more clear! We're still early in our journey so we’re not there yet, but we’re moving fast. We're working on a…

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    Comment #25995904

    We certainly don't want to create an adverse incentive where you would consider limiting the number of devs who had access to the monitoring system. There are trade-offs but we thi…

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    Comment #25995424

    Yes you can do this today. You cannot send this directly to Opstrace via grpc yet, so you would need to use the Prometheus remote write exporter ( https://github.com/open-telemetry…

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    Comment #25994550

    :-) I have talked about the subject in this comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25991764

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    Comment #25994268

    We’re about to release a Datadog compatible API so you can point your Datadog agent at Opstrace instead (stay tuned for the blog post). Our goal is to be able to tell you exactly h…

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    Comment #25993825

    Currently you can only deploy to AWS and GCP, but we do intend to extend support to on-prem/dedicated servers in due course (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25992237 ). Un…

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    Comment #25992392

    Great questions! (1) As it stands today, you can already use https://vector.dev/docs/reference/sinks/prometheus_remote_wr... to write metrics directly to our Prometheus API. You ca…

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    Comment #25992001

    Mat here (Seb's Cofounder). Great question. We are not only building a piece of infrastructure but a complete product with its own UI and features, rather than a standalone API. Ou…

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