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At almost $100 per GB of logs ingested, I think it’s targeted at SV startups.
It is ~$93 / month for 1 "GB per day" not per GB.
Thanks! It was not clear from https://www.sumologic.com/pricing/
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Re: OpenTelemetry
#72I belive OpenTelemetry will make distributed tracing mainstream. Traces are the best tool to debug problems, yet as their are expensive (both in dev work and license) to implement they are way less popular than logs. Historicaly APM (application performance monitoring) also owned collection, vendor locked-in and didn’t evolve price per value. Open-source collection standard allows users to choose or switch to the bes…
I don't think it will. The pricing is still too high for it to become mainstream. I've worked at places that have those systems and it really does make debugging an incredible amount easier, but Sumo Logic is $93/GB for data. That says with a 30 day retention period, so I'm assuming that's the charge to store a 1 GB of data for a month.
It's just too hard of a sell for management. I don't even want to calculate how many times the cost of S3 storage that is. And then add on top of it that you can't gauge how much data you'll generate until you've actually started implementing it.
I don't think distributed tracing will become mainstream until there's something like ELK for it that lets you start out in-house. Then people start to see the value, and you have a solid case when maintaining it becomes a full-time job.
I haven't seen anything that seems production-ready enough to use at work, but also doesn't involve running an entire Cassandra cluster or something. Is there an implementation that can run using Postgres? I have no doubt that it wouldn't scale well, but I need a foot in the door to prove the value before I can justify paying $93/GB to my director.