Ask HN: What do you run instead of Datadog?

#1

Post by theorlandog » Tue, Feb 11, 2025, 11:47 PM UTC

Datadog has turned into an ever loving piece of shit. I am sick of their sales team grabbing us by the ankles and "Accidentally" charging for services we don't use. Now, this morning they changed something with their AWS integration that is causing 10X the API calls against our accounts (and thus, 10X guardduty costs on our end analyzing those API requests).

I have had enough of their bullshit and want to find a new vendor. What is everyone using for cloud scale logging and monitoring these days that isn't one of Splunk (cost prohibitive), Sumo-Logic (Also assholes), or Datadog?

It would be nice to just self host a service that stored logs in S3 using iceberg format. However, I don't think such a tool exists.

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

#2

Post by dantodor » Wed, Feb 12, 2025, 12:20 AM UTC

OpenObserve

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

#3

Post by theorlandog » Wed, Feb 12, 2025, 12:36 AM UTC

dantodor wrote: post #2

OpenObserve

This is new to me. Thank you for sharing. Looks like it hits a lot of notes I am looking for. Excited to keep digging in!

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

#4

Post by marshughes » Wed, Feb 12, 2025, 1:43 AM UTC

I totally understand your frustration with Datadog's issues. How about the combination of Prometheus + Grafana? Prometheus is for monitoring data collection and Grafana is for visual display. They are open - source and free, allowing for flexible customization. Do you have any specific requirements for monitoring metrics and visualization?

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

#5

Post by myshortfriend » Wed, Feb 12, 2025, 4:22 AM UTC

Coralogix

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

#6

Post by pranay01 » Wed, Feb 12, 2025, 4:56 AM UTC

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

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

#7

Post by pranabgohain » Wed, Feb 12, 2025, 6:21 AM UTC

Take a look at https://www.kloudmate.com

360 degree observability (Logs, Metrics, Events, Traces) with RUM, in-built Incident Management, full-featured access, unlimited users

PS: I'm associated with them.

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

#8

Post by oulipo » Wed, Feb 12, 2025, 8:02 AM UTC

I've tried highlight.io (I'm not affiliated) which I found quite nice, there is an open-source version, although I tried to spin it and it was complex to get it working, but I'm using their cloud version for now

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

#9

Post by dengolius » Wed, Feb 12, 2025, 10:29 AM UTC

VictoriaMetrics and VictoriaLogs with Grafana for graphs.

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

#10

Post by TobbenTM » Wed, Feb 12, 2025, 4:10 PM UTC

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 already, since it makes changing providers the most easy task ever.