Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datadog, NewRelic)

github.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 26 posts

Re: Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datadog, NewRelic)

#11

Post by cocoland2 »

vmihailenco wrote: post #2

Uptrace 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 OpenTelem…

Hi there, Right now Uptrace seems to be supporting only Clickhouse sink only. Is there any future roadmap to support other Exporters supported on OpenTelemetry ?

Re: Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datadog, NewRelic)

#12

Post by MuffinFlavored »

bognition wrote: post #3

I 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,…

> IMO the reason these vendors can and do charge so much is not because telemetry software is hard.

I always saw it as "they are charging for their polished UI/experience"

The UI of https://zipkin.io/ versus DataDog is kind of... not really in the same ballpark?

Re: Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datadog, NewRelic)

#13

Post by m-o11y »

If you're in the market for a DataDog/NewRelic alternative that's based on OSS, but a bit more "few-clicks-and-you-are-up-and-running", check out OpsVerse ObserveNow: https://opsverse.io/observenow-observability/ .. An O11y platform entirely powered by OSS tools, ingestion-driven pricing, and without the hassle of managing the stack and scaling up.

We also recently spoke about how we leverage Clickhouse to build out our APM solution on top on Jaeger traces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19smsahx7Xg

--

Disclaimer: I work at OpsVerse, and we're big fans of UpTrace (and other OSS O11y tools)

Re: Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datadog, NewRelic)

#14

Post by ryanrussell »

Can we please not call this open source if it's not?

The tool may be great, but the title leaves me skeptical of anything else.

From: https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/blob/master/LICENSE

Business Source License 1.1

Parameters

Licensor: Uptrace Licensed Work: Uptrace The Licensed Work is (c) 2021 Uptrace Additional Use Grant: You may make use of the Licensed Work, provided that you may not use the Licensed Work for a Tracing and Metrics Service.

                      A "Tracing and Metrics Service" is a commercial offering
                      that allows third parties (other than your employees and
                      contractors) to access the functionality of the
                      Licensed Work so that such third parties directly benefit
                      from the tracing and metrics of the Licensed Work.

Re: Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datadog, NewRelic)

#15

Post by ilyt »

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #12
bognition wrote: post #3

I 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,…

> IMO the reason these vendors can and do charge so much is not because telemetry software is hard. I always saw it as "they are charging for their polished UI/experience" The UI of https://zipkin.io/ versus DataDog is kind of... not really in the same ballpark?

Wish they actually sold the UI, not tried to bunch it up with data processing/storage at outrageous price even compared to usual cloud offerings

Re: Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datadog, NewRelic)

#16

Post by whalesalad »

ryanrussell wrote: post #14

Can we please not call this open source if it's not? The tool may be great, but the title leaves me skeptical of anything else. From: https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/blob/master/LICENSE Business Source License 1.1 Parameters Licensor: Uptrace Licensed Work: Uptrace The Licensed Work is (c) 2021 Uptrace Additional Use Grant: You may make use of the Licensed Work, provided that you may not use the Licensed Work for…

the source is right there in the open. licensing is a different story.

Re: Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datadog, NewRelic)

#17

Post by ttul »

The reason we outsource monitoring to Datadog is so we don’t have to worry about monitoring while the rest of our revenue-generating infrastructure is having a bad day.

My team absolutely could do this in-house, but it would be a distraction day-to-day and potentially a disaster when dealing with a crisis.

Re: Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datadog, NewRelic)

#19

Post by juicypt »

m-o11y wrote: post #13

If you're in the market for a DataDog/NewRelic alternative that's based on OSS, but a bit more "few-clicks-and-you-are-up-and-running", check out OpsVerse ObserveNow: https://opsverse.io/observenow-observability/ .. An O11y platform entirely powered by OSS tools, ingestion-driven pricing, and without the hassle of managing the stack and scaling up. We also recently spoke about how we leverage Clickhouse to build out…

Interesting! I couldn't find a link to github (or something else) on your website though. Is there a way to get the source to do some tests?
Post reply on HN