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Ask HN: What do you run instead of Datadog?

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Re: Ask HN: What do you run instead of Datadog?

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Post by thiago_fm »

I like SigNoz, it isn't as good as Datadog yet, but I can see it growing to be just as good, with a very small bill in comparison to DD, and a more sustainable revenue model.

They need to focus a lot on APM. Most people pay Datadog because of APM. The rest can be done quite well by using ELK stack or any other tools.

Re: Ask HN: What do you run instead of Datadog?

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Post by digikata »

We self-host on our own open-source product, but it helps to have a streaming data platform as a product. Not too difficult to write a connector-sink to S3. https://www.fluvio.io/

The caveat is that this is a general purpose data streaming product, so it isn't that opinionated or customized for logging. We still use logging custom frontends for browsing (e.g. grafana), but for core logging/monitoring/billing and critical alerts, it's just Fluvio.

Been looking at the https://coroot.com ebpf collectors to see if we can replace our sidecar sources recently.

Re: Ask HN: What do you run instead of Datadog?

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Post by pranay01 »

thiago_fm wrote: post #13
pranay01 wrote: post #6

Check out SigNoz, https://github.com/signoz/signoz Has metrics, logs and traces in a single app and built natively on OpenTelemetry Disclaimer : I am a maintainer

Love it, it's epic. I can't wait to see you folks become very successful!

Thanks! great to see that you liked it

Do share any feedback you have on github or on our slack community - https://signoz.io/slack

Re: Ask HN: What do you run instead of Datadog?

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Post by pranay01 »

thiago_fm wrote: post #12

I like SigNoz, it isn't as good as Datadog yet, but I can see it growing to be just as good, with a very small bill in comparison to DD, and a more sustainable revenue model. They need to focus a lot on APM. Most people pay Datadog because of APM. The rest can be done quite well by using ELK stack or any other tools.

Thanks for the shoutout for SigNoz and the feedback.

We are actively working on shipping innovative features in this space. btw, we also have our launch week going on currently if you want to have a look :)

https://signoz.io/launch-week/

Re: Ask HN: What do you run instead of Datadog?

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Post by theorlandog »

pranay01 wrote: post #6

Check out SigNoz, https://github.com/signoz/signoz Has metrics, logs and traces in a single app and built natively on OpenTelemetry Disclaimer : I am a maintainer

Thank you for this recommendation. I have heard the name before, but it slipped my mind to really dig in. I am definitely interested here though. Will start to play around and reach out if it looks promising. Do you all sign BAAs?

Re: Ask HN: What do you run instead of Datadog?

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Post by theorlandog »

TobbenTM wrote: post #10

Datadog is a monstrosity, they do so many things, most of which you don't know or don't care about, so which ones do you need? We ended up going for HyperDX, just because I really favour fast log searches and simple alerts straight to Slack, but many of these Clickhouse-powered observability suites like Signoz, BetterStack, etc will do the job. Just depends how much you want to pay. Also, I hope you're on OTEL alread…

Thanks for this. Learning my lesson now to standardize on OTEL first. Thanks for the tip.
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