Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datadog, NewRelic)
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Re: Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datadog, NewRelic)
#2Uptrace is an open-source APM tool that supports distributed tracing, metrics, and logs. You can use it to monitor applications and set up alerts to receive notifications via email, Slack, Telegram, and more.
In v1.4 release Uptrace got built-in alerting capabilities that allow to monitor metrics, manage alerts, and receive notifications without using AlertManager. But AlertManager is still supported.
While OpenTelemetry remains to be the main source of telemetry data, Uptrace also provides integrations for Prometheus metrics, Vector logs, FluentBit, Sentry, and CloudWatch.
You can quickly try Uptrace by:
- Running a Docker example: https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/tree/master/example/docke...
- Checking Uptrace Cloud demo: https://app.uptrace.dev/play
If you have any feedback or questions, let me know in the comments!
Re: Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datadog, NewRelic)
#3I love seeing open source alternatives to these major vendors.
IMO the reason these vendors can and do charge so much is not because telemetry software is hard. Its because managing data at large volumes is incredibly challenging.
No matter what solution you pick, you're going to hit scaling issues eventually. Sure you can start with a single instance, but eventually you're going to need to shard, backup, replicate, etc... If you're running a saas business with uptime expectations from your customers then your telemetry systems need to be rock solid.
This means either paying through the nose for a system that is mostly going to work. Or spinning up a team of engineers to active manage and operate your telemetry systems, and then spending years making your system rock solid.
Managing these systems is a challenging problem and its not one that most software engineers want to do or will enjoy. So its difficult to find the right people.
Re: Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datadog, NewRelic)
#4I love seeing open source alternatives to these major vendors. IMO the reason these vendors can and do charge so much is not because telemetry software is hard. Its because managing data at large volumes is incredibly challenging. No matter what solution you pick, you're going to hit scaling issues eventually. Sure you can start with a single instance, but eventually you're going to need to shard, backup, replicate,…
I find myself surprised because I totally would love a job like that but yep, filter bubble and all, guess I just didn't realize mine up until your comment.
Re: Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datadog, NewRelic)
#5We are using this and we have been very happy so far.
Re: Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datadog, NewRelic)
#6A few questions if authors are around:
- is the metrics query language 100% compatible with PromQL or people will need to learn something new? - can logs / metrics / traces be visualized by some external app like Grafana?
- speaking of which, how does it compare to GrafanaLabs solutions (Loki/Tempo/Mimir)?
- how "plug and play" would be in a system using Prometheus+Thanos for metrics and Filebeat+Logsatsh+ElasticSearch for logs? EDIT: scratch that, there is enough doc on the website about this
Thanks!
Re: Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datadog, NewRelic)
#7I love seeing open source alternatives to these major vendors. IMO the reason these vendors can and do charge so much is not because telemetry software is hard. Its because managing data at large volumes is incredibly challenging. No matter what solution you pick, you're going to hit scaling issues eventually. Sure you can start with a single instance, but eventually you're going to need to shard, backup, replicate,…
Yeah exactly. I rarely if ever run these kinds of platforms for exactly that reason. I've been at small, resource constrained orgs where could not afford the developer hours to keep open source products up to date so we just buy entry-level licenses. And I've worked at huge orgs where we have the people but they have more urgent tasks so handing over $250k a year to a SaaS vendor is still cheaper and less risky than hiring.
I still very much appreciate the open source stuff as it at least keeps vendors honest.
Re: Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datadog, NewRelic)
#8I love seeing open source alternatives to these major vendors. IMO the reason these vendors can and do charge so much is not because telemetry software is hard. Its because managing data at large volumes is incredibly challenging. No matter what solution you pick, you're going to hit scaling issues eventually. Sure you can start with a single instance, but eventually you're going to need to shard, backup, replicate,…
I find myself surprised because I totally would love a job like that but yep, filter bubble and all, guess I just didn't realize mine up until your comment.
We should talk, i'd love to hire you
Re: Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datadog, NewRelic)
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find myself surprised because I totally would love a job like that but yep, filter bubble and all, guess I just didn't realize mine up until your comment.
We should talk, i'd love to hire you
My email is in my profile and I'm currently free, resting.
Ping me or tell me where to find you, would love to talk.
Re: Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datadog, NewRelic)
#10I love seeing open source alternatives to these major vendors. IMO the reason these vendors can and do charge so much is not because telemetry software is hard. Its because managing data at large volumes is incredibly challenging. No matter what solution you pick, you're going to hit scaling issues eventually. Sure you can start with a single instance, but eventually you're going to need to shard, backup, replicate,…
If you use AWS X-Ray and CloudWatch integration, you can both use open source and pay through the nose.