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I feel for the teams that will need to compete against them as they enter new markets, although I expect that their forays will fail at a fairly high rate (as most product line expansions do).
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).
interesting at a prev job we switched _to_ ddlogs from sumologic because ddlogs was so much cheaper. Enterprise pricing isnt exactly transparent though, so who knows what goes into it.
I continue to be really impressed by Datadog. They're in the very exciting post-IPO enterprise SaaS phase where they still have startup mojo + the resources of a large company + the need to continually grow and expand. I feel for the teams that will need to compete against them as they enter new markets, although I expect that their forays will fail at a fairly high rate (as most product line expansions do).
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…
Note that I used to work there, so I’m biased.
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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…
If you‘d like to avoid that, have a look at Instana. None of that outrageous pricing, and the focus is actually more about helping you find issues instead of Graph Porn. Note that I used to work there, so I’m biased.
Thank You. These two words alone describe something I couldn't quite figure out what was wrong with these products. Far too much focus on Graphs.
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…
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)
I would argue Sumo on-demand search is the least expensive logging product on market, yet very feature rich.
Disclaimer: I work at Sumo. All opinions are mine.
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How’d he get your home number?
I don't know about this person, but my name is pretty unique Enter it into Google and my (former) home number is a click away. And it's only former because I don't have a home phone anymore There are services that round up all this information and link it that I'm sure sales people would use as well
Who knows where those companies got it, but you can sleep soundly knowing you bought it from a “Real company.”
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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.