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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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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)

Disagree, DataDog charges at least $0.10 / GB to forward your logs to your S3. For same price, Sumo Logic allows you to have data search on-demand with no rehydrate. Rehydrate will charge you a lot and take time, at Sumo you can query immediate right away. 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.

Is Sumo Logic available on a month to month basis? All the prices on the pricing page say “multi-year agreement”. I’m also having dificulty figuring out exactly what it will costs, I don’t find the credit system particularly clear.

I’m about to launch a new project and am currently planning to use Datadog (for both metrics and logs, possibly more in time), but would happily consider alternatives, especially if cheaper or with more straightforward pricing, but so far Sumo’s pricing doesn’t look any more straightforward and I’m not able to commit to anything beyond month to month and by my reading of the pricing page, Sumo doesn’t offer that.

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

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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).

Was reading the whole thread, but got distracted by “post-IPO enterprise SaaS phase”. You won buzzword/corporate bingo ;-)

Heh, yeah. If you have a less buzzwordy way to phrase that I'd be curious to hear it ;-), I think that the description is accurate although upon reflection I'm with you that it feels pulled out of corporate hell.

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

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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/

Their pricing is greater than Datadog's, particularly if you can filter out any logs before indexing them.

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Disagree, DataDog charges at least $0.10 / GB to forward your logs to your S3. For same price, Sumo Logic allows you to have data search on-demand with no rehydrate. Rehydrate will charge you a lot and take time, at Sumo you can query immediate right away. 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.

Is Sumo Logic available on a month to month basis? All the prices on the pricing page say “multi-year agreement”. I’m also having dificulty figuring out exactly what it will costs, I don’t find the credit system particularly clear. I’m about to launch a new project and am currently planning to use Datadog (for both metrics and logs, possibly more in time), but would happily consider alternatives, especially if cheape…

I can't even figure out Sumo's pricing by looking at their pricing page. DataDog's pricing page on the other hand is very easy to understand even though it contains 2 aspects (ingest and index). I would note that Data Dog lies about pricing by showing you a 7-day retention setting pricing that isn't actually available.

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Recently implemented datadog at a large financial organisation - it does well at focusing on its core features. We had to create a lot of glue to make it enterprise ready - Active directory sync due to it not supporting groups, permission model is poor. If you wanted anything done raise a support ticket rather than with your sales contact too.

I work on authentication and access control at Datadog - we've recently improved the group mapping through SAML and we have a number of features in the permission model that we're excited about. Eager to show it off if you're interested.

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

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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).

Please consider Scalyr: disclosure I work there, but objectively I will be surprised if someone beats us on price, focused log analytics - try and judge for yourself.

https://www.scalyr.com

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

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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).

Please consider Scalyr: disclosure I work there, but objectively I will be surprised if someone beats us on price, focused log analytics - try and judge for yourself. https://www.scalyr.com

A small note on the website itself: There is no scrollbar visible, this is a huge UX problem.
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