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

Post by palijer » Fri, Apr 21, 2023, 7:04 PM UTC

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?

Post by pdimitar » Mon, Apr 24, 2023, 9:40 AM UTC

endigma wrote: post #23

bognition wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We should talk, i'd love to hire you

Are you actually planning on building this? We should talk if so, this is a super interesting problem domain IMO.

Post by devidark » Thu, May 04, 2023, 6:54 AM UTC

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…