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Datadog releases Incident Management, Profiler, Error Tracking, and more

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Re: Datadog releases Incident Management, Profiler, Error Tracking, and more

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Post by aeyes »

palijer wrote: post #31
stewart87 wrote: post #10

Anyone using their APM? why/ why not?

Using it on all of our services, we all love it. Troubleshooting and optimizations are ridiculously simply, there isn't much investigation, APM just tells you what is wrong, saves a lot of Dev time and we'll worth the money IMO

What language? I tried Python Django a year ago and didn't get half the detail NewRelic shows out of the box. Given the much higher price I didn't even bother looking into custom instrumentalization.

But a year has passed, maybe I should give it another try since NewRelic is trying to make everything as hard as possible with their new UI.

Re: Datadog releases Incident Management, Profiler, Error Tracking, and more

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Post by gregwebs »

kevsim wrote: post #16

We used DataDog extensively for metrics at my last job. It was awesome, but terribly expensive. Then people wanted to get logs in the same service, so we started rolling that out and it got even more expensive (multiple times competitors like SumoLogic). Would assume these new features will also come with a hefty pricetag (though for APM it's not like competitors like NewRelic are inexpensive).

I think they have the least expensive logging product available. But you have to

1) Not run the DataDog agent (you can use fluent-bit) 2) Filter logs so they are not indexed (and in some cases not ingested)

Re: Datadog releases Incident Management, Profiler, Error Tracking, and more

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Post by bdcravens »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #37
serkanh wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try Mongodb sales! Those guys were the sleaziest SAAS i have ever dealt with. Not only they constantly called, they messaged to everyone from my company that are my linkedin connection stating they are working with me while it was not the case.

Incredibly annoying LinkedIn doesn’t have the ability block everyone from a specific org. Definitely would pay for an open source tool that does this with my LinkedIn creds.

Presumably they'd just set up a fake profile.

Re: Datadog releases Incident Management, Profiler, Error Tracking, and more

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Post by x3n0ph3n3 »

bdcravens wrote: post #12

I feel like Datadog has a great product. I only wish I hadn't had such negative experiences with their sales team.

Yeah, my experience has been similar. We are finally migrating our monitoring/alerting off of DataDog and directly onto CloudWatch because their sales team refused to budge on pricing and demanded the inclusion of features we weren't interested in. That, and they are nowhere near supporting GovCloud environments.

Re: Datadog releases Incident Management, Profiler, Error Tracking, and more

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Post by calabin »

shoulderfake wrote: post #8
mdaniel wrote: post #3

I rage closed that window for downloading a 720p(!) 2.5MB video showing some swooshing squares that takes up the entirety of the "welcome to this content" section. It's one level of disrespect for my time to eat a huge swath of space with a gif, it's a whole other level to put a movie trailer above your blog content just to make squares dance around In an attempt to rescue this rant with some actual content: one migh…

you are angry about 2.5mb video, its 2020 pal get a broadband connection

I just moved to Phoenix from Chicago - even in a major US city I'm forced to use DSL by the apartment complex I live in. I didn't think I'd have to check to see if I can get broadband because it seemed insane to think that it wouldn't be available.

Nonetheless, pages with needless weight have become incredibly annoying, inconvenient, and cumbersome. Also, the much of the rest of the US (outside of metro areas) has some really terrible access to decent internet speeds. That's not even to mention anywhere in the rest of the world.

So kindly cool it with your needless condescension. It's unnecessary and contributes nothing.

Re: Datadog releases Incident Management, Profiler, Error Tracking, and more

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Post by jabroni_salad »

koolba wrote: post #44
uranium wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll never try the product for that reason. They spammed me at work, then on LinkedIn, then cold-called my cellphone [which I really hate to be called on by anyone I don't know]. I demanded to be taken off their contact list, and then said they would. So then a few days later, the same guy called my home phone . I was a bit less polite that time, and perhaps I got my message across, or perhaps he's just run out of wa…

How’d he get your home number?

I am pretty sure they are getting it from linkedin. I felt like a conspiracy theorist but I signed myself up for a SIP line and started getting calls on it from Datadog and The Register after I added it to linkedin.

Re: Datadog releases Incident Management, Profiler, Error Tracking, and more

#57

Post by mech422 »

calabin wrote: post #55
shoulderfake wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you are angry about 2.5mb video, its 2020 pal get a broadband connection

I just moved to Phoenix from Chicago - even in a major US city I'm forced to use DSL by the apartment complex I live in. I didn't think I'd have to check to see if I can get broadband because it seemed insane to think that it wouldn't be available. Nonetheless, pages with needless weight have become incredibly annoying, inconvenient, and cumbersome. Also, the much of the rest of the US (outside of metro areas) has so…

Hey Neighbor!

  If you can get it... Cox has gigablast available here for about $120/month.  I get about 800ish down and 35ish up.

Re: Datadog releases Incident Management, Profiler, Error Tracking, and more

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Post by benburleson »

Lazare wrote: post #43
bdcravens wrote: post #12

I feel like Datadog has a great product. I only wish I hadn't had such negative experiences with their sales team.

Yes.... We originally switched to Datadog because we were looking for New Relic alternative, ran across them, signed up for a trial, liked it, the end. But then like....18 months later we got contacted by our brand new "account manager", who pestered us into a conference call (a bad start!), and then exhibited a simply amazing lack of knowledge of us, our history with Datadog, our current plan and usage, how we're us…

Seems like they share a playbook with newrelic actually. Such a terrible experience, don't make being a customer a pain in my ass.

Re: Datadog releases Incident Management, Profiler, Error Tracking, and more

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Post by manigandham »

gregwebs wrote: post #52
kevsim wrote: post #16

We used DataDog extensively for metrics at my last job. It was awesome, but terribly expensive. Then people wanted to get logs in the same service, so we started rolling that out and it got even more expensive (multiple times competitors like SumoLogic). Would assume these new features will also come with a hefty pricetag (though for APM it's not like competitors like NewRelic are inexpensive).

I think they have the least expensive logging product available. But you have to 1) Not run the DataDog agent (you can use fluent-bit) 2) Filter logs so they are not indexed (and in some cases not ingested)

Try LogDNA - it's been the cheapest, fastest and more reliable logging service I've used.

https://logdna.com/

Re: Datadog releases Incident Management, Profiler, Error Tracking, and more

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Post by mdaniel »

vosper wrote: post #11
mdaniel wrote: post #3

I rage closed that window for downloading a 720p(!) 2.5MB video showing some swooshing squares that takes up the entirety of the "welcome to this content" section. It's one level of disrespect for my time to eat a huge swath of space with a gif, it's a whole other level to put a movie trailer above your blog content just to make squares dance around In an attempt to rescue this rant with some actual content: one migh…

> one might have interest in the recent series of threads over in r/devops about people's differing experiences between datadog's _product_ and datadog's _organization_. I briefly tried to find some of these, but I'm not clear on which threads you're referring to. If you have time to post some that'd be interesting to me. The one I did find was someone complaining about being "scammed" but it seemed pretty clear that…

We may be talking about the same thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/i63xxv/datadog_shad... but my take away wasn't from the original poster's story, it was from the numerous replies with their own story about the product being fine but the interactions with the business being suboptimal. I also came into that thread having just heard a similar story last week from an non-reddit source. "..., twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action," as the tale goes.

Even surfing around the new comments _here_ seems to reinforce that same theme, so whatever the next phase is beyond enemy action, I'm pretty sure we've crossed that threshold

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