A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call
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Re: A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call
#2What is best cost effective and decent alternative to DD in 2023? I also feel like they are robbing me blind. Great product though.
Re: A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call
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Re: A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call
#4What is best cost effective and decent alternative to DD in 2023? I also feel like they are robbing me blind. Great product though.
qryn is solid and very affordable because you self-host. it supports DD vectors out of the box. /dev/null is always a strong contender too.
Re: A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call
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Re: A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call
#6What is best cost effective and decent alternative to DD in 2023? I also feel like they are robbing me blind. Great product though.
Kubernetes with Graphana is free. The combo provides logging, performance stats and graphs and lets you auto-scale based on usage.
Unfortunately, avoiding insanely costly SaaS solutions requires engineers to plan ahead and design the entire stack on top of certain open source solutions. I suspect that many engineers today receive kickbacks from SaaS providers to lock-in their employers. Employers are none the wiser and rarely push back when an engineer suggests a big-name SaaS solution with insane lock-in factor. Nobody seems to care about lock-in these days, it's only when your costs reach almost 100 million and interest rates are going up that you start thinking "Damn, I could have had all that for free if I had planned ahead and resisted all these platform lock-ins and unnecessary proprietary tools..."
Re: A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call
#7What is best cost effective and decent alternative to DD in 2023? I also feel like they are robbing me blind. Great product though.
qryn is solid and very affordable because you self-host. it supports DD vectors out of the box. /dev/null is always a strong contender too.
Are you joking or is there actually a datadog-like startup named dev null?
Re: A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call
#8Sounds like some kind of upfront payment discount.
Re: A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call
#9Seems like there's opportunity for compition in SaaS monitoring then. I'd imagine a few small efficient teams could beat the price on the core part of what datadog offers. At 5000 employees Your probably paying for corporate bloat
Re: A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call
#10What is best cost effective and decent alternative to DD in 2023? I also feel like they are robbing me blind. Great product though.
Kubernetes with Graphana is free. The combo provides logging, performance stats and graphs and lets you auto-scale based on usage. Unfortunately, avoiding insanely costly SaaS solutions requires engineers to plan ahead and design the entire stack on top of certain open source solutions. I suspect that many engineers today receive kickbacks from SaaS providers to lock-in their employers. Employers are none the wiser a…
> Unfortunately, I suspect that many engineers today receive kickbacks from SaaS providers to lock-in their employers.
Cmon man, really? Drop the conspiracy theories. I’ve personally been the guy advocating for datadog at 4 startups. Mainly because of opportunity cost - we have 10-100 engineers, I want them building product not figuring out how to deploy a whole ecosystem of observability tools. IF we get big let’s reevaluate… but in the meantime. am I doing it wrong? If others are getting kickbacks I want in